--- description: The voice of Batman is none other than Will Arnett, who played Batman in 'The Lego Movie.' title: The New 'The Lego Batman Movie' Trailer is As Fantastic As it Sounds image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The New _The Lego Batman Movie_ Trailer Is as Fantastic as It Sounds by [Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 24, 2016 3:50 PM CUT by [Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 24, 2016 3:50 PM CUT Back when _The Lego Movie_ was announced in 2011, naysayers had their share of strong words about the notion of a film based entirely in the world of LEGO. After its whopping box office success, nobody’s questioning _The Lego Batman Movie_. The first trailer has arrived for the first film spinoff of the 2014 animated hit, this time centered around the brick-laden world of Batman, as voiced by Will Arnett with surly, arrogant, 90-degree-angular superhero swagger. Those attributes are on display in the first moments of the new trailer, which interrupts Batman as he drops a “sick flow” to no one in particular. “I might as well tell you about my new feature film _The Lego Batman Movie_, written, directed, sound-mixed, choreographed, and painstakingly beatboxed by me,” Batman says. The trailer that follows shows some highlights of Batman’s adventures – scored with Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” – and ends with the Dark Knight heating up some lobster thermidor leftovers. “I deserve this today,” he says before taking a bite. “Today, I deserve it.” The DC Comics character was a breakout surprise of the original movie, and now he’ll headline his own feature with a voice cast including Michael Cera as Robin, Ralph Fiennes as Alfred, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Zach Galifianakis as the Joker, and Mariah Carey as the mayor of Gotham. The Warner Bros. animated movie is actually directed by Chris McKay (a co-director of _The Lego Movie_, and not Batman) and written by Seth Grahame-Smith (_Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_, also not Batman); it’s due to swing into theaters on February 10, 2017. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/24/lego-batman-movie-trailer "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4270786/lego-batman-movie-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4270786/lego-batman-movie-trailer/"},"headline":"The New The Lego Batman Movie Trailer Is as Fantastic as It Sounds","datePublished":"2016-03-24T15:50:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:11:49.147Z","description":"There's even a mic drop","url":"https://time.com/4270786/lego-batman-movie-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Lego","Batman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4270786/lego-batman-movie-trailer/","name":"The New The Lego Batman Movie Trailer Is as Fantastic as It Sounds"}}]}] ```