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POWER RANGERS Reboot Lands At Paramount, Allspark

I didn’t have huge expectations for Dave Green’s 2017 take on Power Rangers from Lionsgate, but I did have hopes. I reckon others did too, and mainly since took a liking to the edgier teenage appeal to the classic Ameritoku series in its return to the big screen. It did take me a bit to get used to Alpha 5’s new look, though as far as creative liberties go in Hollywood, it could’ve been way worse. The end definitely had me gripped a bit as well, hoping for a sequel that would’ve potentially introduced the Green Ranger in some form or another. Flash forward two years later and obviously that never came to pass. The cast moved onto other projects and despite falling short of any hopeful box office success, Hasbro still found potential in the property enough to acquire Saban’s Power Rangers last May, among other properties under Saban […]

G.I. JOE Grows Its Cinematic Universe With New Spin-Off Project

Lee B. Golden III

Paramount and Hasbro have tapped Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 2, Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol) to assemble what THR‘s Borys Kit is reporting as an “ensemble piece” in the G.I. Joe screen saga. The article thusfar only elucidates the project as another spin-off of the G.I. Joe franchise with the inclusion of at least one key character, Chuckles, who debuted among the popular toyline in 1987 and in its Marvel Comics slate. As Kit notes, Chuckles is best known for his skillset involving undercover and infiltration ops. He also reports that the character isn’t central to the new movie but that could change over time, among other things already in flux. Word on this project comes following years of waiting for a potential trilogy induction from the studio following Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (2019), and Jon M. Chu’s 3D sequel, […]

Paramount Scores Dates For Third G.I. JOE Film And Three Other Titles

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been about four years since the protracted 3D post-production and release of Jon M. Chu’s highly-received sequel adaptation, G.I. Joe: Retaliation for Paramount Pictures. Prospects have since remained lagging for the film franchise itself since launching in 2009 with The Rise Of Cobra under Stephen Sommers, albeit upward nonetheless with actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson having all but ascended his way through to having his own star etched on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. With that in mind, Hasbro has also been busy in the last few years with the advancement of its own Hasbro-based movieverse in which to include the G.I. Joe saga along with its other properties: namely Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. and ROM. Akiva Goldsman was tapped to lead a writers’ room as of Spring 2016 to help manifest the CU with Hasbro and Allspark Pictures and all has since been quiet with respect to these efforts. […]

Paramount’s Hasbro Movieverse Gets A Writers’ Room

Lee B. Golden III

Last December saw some fantastic news of upscaling over at Hasbro, Inc.’s Allspark Pictures label to develop a conjoined cinematic movieverse along with Paramount Pictures for several of its properties. As such, an announcement made on Thursday for a writers’ room to convene and bring it all together, and who better to lead the charge than award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman? He’s recently been running things to help lead producer and director Michael Bay’s slew of upcoming Transformers movies and Bumblebee spinoff, and so with his feet already dug in, it appears he’s ready for the task, and in the good graces of an arsenal of stellar writers to boot. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, Inc. today unveiled its top talent writers room which will have responsibility for developing Hasbro’s cross-property interconnected onscreen universe featuring the brands G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike […]

Hasbro's Allspark, Paramount To Develop A Shared Cinematic Universe For TRANSFORMERS, G.I. Joe And Others

Lee B. Golden III

Leave it to Hasbro to pick back up on just how to bring your favorite toys to life on screen! Already in progress is a slate of at least four more Transformers movies, but now we can include further knowledge of an expanding movieverse that will cross Transformers’ characters with that of other properties. Together with Paramount Pictures, Hasbro chairman, president and CEO Brian Goldner along with executive vice president and chief content officer Stephen Davis and head of film development Josh Feldman are well underway in gathering a writers’ room that will produce scripts to mingle Transformers with characters from G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. and ROM; The former already has two live action films under its belt with a third installment that’s been lingering since Jon Chu’s 2013 hit, G.I. Joe: Retaliation which added $675 million dollars gross total from both Chu’s film and its 2009 predecessor from Stephen […]