10) The LEGO Movie
Though everyone was expecting it to be a shameless cash-grab, The LEGO Movie, well, in one sense still was a shameless cash grab, at least had a ton of imagination and creativity. As you might remember, the two stars of the show are the so-called Special One Emmet, who’s actually a cheerful but totally uncreative conformist, while the other is LEGO Batman himself, a spot-on comedic take on the modern brooding Dark Knight.
In the original version of the movie, however, one of these characters is the complete opposite while the other is totally absent. Emmet started life as someone too creative to fit into normal LEGO life – for example, he builds a massive smiley face when working at the construction site and gets sent to jail for it.
LEGO Batman, meanwhile, is nowhere to be found in the original draft. Instead, his role as celebrity supporting character was filled by LEGO Indiana Jones. His involvement culminated in the meeting of LEGO Indy and LEGO Han, bringing together Harrison Ford’s two iconic characters. In LEGO form.
In another universe somewhere, The LEGO Indiana Jones Movie is about to arrive in cinemas.