LEGO has multiple seasons of NINJAGO Dragons Rising mapped out, ‘wouldn’t say no’ to a movie

The team behind the LEGO NINJAGO TV series has mapped out a ‘multi-season story’ for Dragons Rising, and ‘wouldn’t say no’ to the possibility of a feature film somewhere down the line.

The second season of LEGO NINJAGO Dragons Rising debuted in the UK and US over the weekend, following on from last summer’s soft reboot for the long-running series – and providing a clear entry point for new fans in what had otherwise become a sprawling mass of stories, characters, season and episodes.

“There’s so much material, it’s our longest running show,” Asa Tait, NINJAGO Dragons Rising executive producer and head of production at the LEGO Group’s entertainment division, told Variety. “[The new show is] a place and a story where you can come in fresh and feel like this is a world that stands on its own.”

Even while we’re into Season 2 now, catching up from Season 1 is still easy – but also necessary, because the showrunners, safe in the knowledge that more seasons would follow, planted the seeds for multi-season story arcs across those inaugural 20 episodes. How many more seasons of Dragons Rising will follow? Tait was tight-lipped, but did reveal that the writers have a multi-season story planned out.

“We wanted to create a space where we could keep throwing these wild new ideas at the world but also be telling one story that’s continuous across the length of the show,” he said, before adding that he ‘wouldn’t say no’ to the idea of a NINJAGO Dragons Rising movie. The franchise has already hit the silver screen once in The LEGO NINJAGO Movie, but that 2017 film is a standalone project, and not canon to the TV show.

Whether the LEGO Group would be keen to try again is a different matter – the first NINJAGO movie arguably killed off the burgeoning LEGO cinematic universe, failing to bring in big box office numbers and receiving a mixed response from critics and audiences alike. But a movie directly tied to the TV show would have an invested audience primed and ready, and would likely be cheaper to produce than the $70 million The LEGO NINJAGO Movie, which featured an A-list cast including Jackie Chan.

The first half of NINJAGO Dragons Rising Season 2 is streaming now on Netflix in the US and ITVX in the UK, while the latest wave of LEGO NINJAGO sets is available to buy now at LEGO.com.

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