Sure, Batman stole the show in The Lego Movie, but that might not have been the case had earlier plans for another famous cameo come to fruition. Phil Lord, who co-wrote and directed the movie with Chris Miller, told Yahoo! Movies, “We figured we could get R2-D2 because his voice wasn’t a human being.” According to Miller, R2 “was a Batman-level character” in early drafts of the screenplay, but they couldn’t get the rights to use the character. Miller explained, “A kid doesn’t have lawyers that won’t allow the toys to play together. Watching my own son play, he does put Batman on the Millennium Falcon and there’s no-one saying they take place in completely different times and galaxies.”
