Riding high on the success of their last few collaborations, Phil Lord and Chris Miller—the duo responsible for The Lego Movie, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and its sequel, and 21 Jump Street and its sequel—talked with Collider about the possibility of reviving the short-lived MTV show they created with Scrubs’ Bill Lawrence, Clone High. Though it only had a 13-episode run between 2002 and 2003, Clone High’s legacy has grown in the decade since its cancellation, thanks in part to the way the show’s oddball sensibilities continues to surface in the pair’s later, more mainstream works. The pair discussed the possibility—and the inherent difficulties—of resurrecting Clone High as a feature-length film:
Miller: We talk very regularly now with Bill every few months or so, we talk about ‘How are we going to get this back in whatever form we can?’ We get our lawyers to talk to each other, and business affairs people to talk to each other. It’s very complicated.
Lord: And then we get tired.
Miller: It’s very hard (laughs). Because it’s at Viacom/MTV, we have a TV deal at Fox, he has a TV deal at Warner Bros. It’s all very complicated, and then it’s ‘should we do a movie, or a TV show, or whatever?’ But, we’re working on it! It’s hard!