When The LEGO Movie sequel hits theaters in 2017, expect it to have more female characters – and possibly a leading lady.

In light of the February 2014 animated film having only three female characters (one of which is a cat), LEGO Movie co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have spoken again about the lack of ladies in the first movie.

“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.

They declined to answer whether or not one of the lead characters will be female, but he did hint that that may be the case: “There’s been a real shortage of [female protagonists] in recent years,” he said, “and I think that the near future will be very different.”

“I don’t want to give spoilers but there will be more female characters and more female stuff,” he added.

Though “female stuff” doesn’t sound like a promising plan, the co-directors at least had a good grasp on the current Hollywood landscape in their chat with the BBC. “You can feel that the whole movie culture is now starting to wake up to the fact that half the audience are women,” Lord 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 box office success of The LEGO Movie has propelled Warner Bros. into setting dates for the aforementioned sequel, a spinoff featuring Batman, and a spinoff in LEGO’s Ninjago world.

All, we expect, will have “female stuff.”