The LEGO Movie writers and directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord recently spoke about the upcoming 2018 sequel to 2014's animated hit, stating that The LEGO Movie 2 will have more female characters.

According to Lord and Miller, the decision to include more females in their cast was to better support gender diversity and appeal to an audience wider than boys."It's important to us that the movie plays broadly, and that we inspire young women as much as we inspire young men," Lord told the BBC He continued, pointing out that Hollywood is starting to become more sensitive to the fact that half of the film audience is made up of female viewers."You can feel that the whole movie culture is now starting to wake up to the fact that half the audience are women," he said. "Frozen is reflective of that - and I think we are all going to find a great flourishing of women film makers and subject matter in the future."The two wouldn't divulge any details further than their intention to add in more female characters, but promised that there would be "more female characters and more female stuff."The main female character of The LEGO Movie was Wyldstyle, a rebellious Lego woman voiced by Elizabeth Banks. While there were occasional cameos of other females, she was the one who appeared the most and served as a partner and love interest to main character Emmett Brickowski (Chris Pratt).To learn more about The LEGO Movie, check out IGN's official review

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