The future of the Lego film franchise isn’t yet written in stone, but what’s certain is that there are a number of studio execs out there really excited at the prospect of making movies about multi-colored, plastic blocks. The first studio to fire a shot in the Lego arms race was Warner Bros., who hired Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller to write and direct Lego: The Movie, or whatever they’re going to end up calling it. Despite the fact that making movies based on a line of building blocks is completely asinine, Lord and Miller’s take on the material sounded like a case of the best being made out of a ridiculous situation; as they’ve actually come up with a promising story. But suddenly they’re not the only players in the Lego game. Now Universal wants to get their hands on a Lego property of their own, in order to prove that they’re the only name in town when it comes to basing horrible movies off of inanimate children’s toys. Heat Vision is reporting that they’re in negotiations with The Lego Group to bring their line of Hero Factory toys to the big screen.

Cannes. Day one. And the deals just keep on rolling. Next up from the international film festival is word that Pierce Brosnan’s production company, Irish DreamTime, has signed on for a multi-picture financing and distribution deal with The Solution Entertainment Group. Right out of the gate, the companies have announced their first picture – a film that will put Brosnan make where he should be: with a gun in his hand and someone shady at his back. Brosnan will star in November Man alongside Dominic Cooper. The film will be directed by Roger Donaldson (The Recruit, Dante’s Peak, Cocktail, and The Bank Job) from an adapted script by Michael Finch (Predators) and Karl Gajdusek (Trespass), who will be drawing from Bill Granger‘s 1987 book “There Are No Spies,” one of many espionage novels by the late author. With so much material to draw from, November Man is being viewed as the first film in a potential franchise. The film “tells the tale of an ex-CIA operative who is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.” Intrigue!

The superhero director will be producing an adaptation of “Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland,” and another famous director is getting a Radical adaptation of his own.