"Lego Movie" creators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller plan to incorporate more female characters in the movie's upcoming sequel set to be shown in theaters in 2018.
Lord and Miller, creators of the "Lego Movie" and "22 Jump Street"--both dubbed as two of the highest-grossing films in the 2014 U.S. box office--revealed in an interview with BBC their plan on adding more female role models to the sequel of the block-building, toy-inspired animated film.
"You can feel that the whole movie culture is now starting to wake up to the fact that half the audience are women," Lord said in an interview with BBC News, noting the initial movie's lack of meaningful roles given to girls.
Miller, on the other hand, is unwilling to disclose any more information about which female characters will be featured in the "Lego Movie 2." But e cited that there will be "more female characters and more female stuff."
In August, the company that created Lego toys has recently launched a new set of three female scientist action figures, including an astronomer, a paleontologist and a chemist.
However, the company was also criticized for using a predominantly pink range of Lego Friends which are obviously aimed to tickle young girls' interest into playing their creations.
After its release in 2014, the first "Lego Movie" became one of the year's box-office hits with $468 million in gross ticket sales.
As of the moment, Lord and Miller's dynamic duo only confirmed the year of the sequel's release, explaining that they only have an outline of its plot as of now.
"I'm certain [that] many broad elements of it will change by the time the movie comes out because that's the way that it works. It's like Lego itself--you can take it apart and put it back together in a different shape," Miller stated.