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Paramount And Hasbro/eOne Ramp Up Animated TRANSFORMERS Prequel With ‘Toy Story 4’ Director

I’m quite pleased with this. I haven’t even seen the previous Michael Bay-directed Transformers film yet, or the Travis Knight-directed 2018 induction, Bumblebee which I’ve heard nothing but good things about the latter and I’ll have plenty of time to catch up on both. What matters though is we have a new Transformers movie in the works from Paramount and Hasbro that’s being developed to focus on the planet Cyberton, and the relationship between the franchise’s two mainstays, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Oscar-winning Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) will direct the animated prequel from a script by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp). According to Mike Fleming Jr.’s Deadline exclusive on Wednesday, Hasbro/eOne will lead the charge on the film’s production. The prequel’s development reportedly goes back to the script’s development in 2015 when Akiva Goldsman led a writers’ room at Paramount to plan a slate […]

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Forsees War, Dystopia, And An Uncertain Future In The First Official Trailer

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Monday has been crazy-packed with news and updates and especially with word of the first teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s new movie, Transformers: The Last Knight. Production officially wrapped on Sunday as announced via social media from the director himself who returns to the helm daring to continue the streak of big box office success that now encompasses the current franchise leading up to 2014’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction. For this, we get the return of actor Mark Wahlberg from the previous film along with Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson who starred in the first trilogy. Also starring are Jerrod Carmichael, Laura Haddock, Iaabella Moner and the one and only Sir Anthony Hopkins next to an onslaught of old and new autobots and decepticons continuing their war with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, and with the Earth at the center of it all. The previous film […]

TRANSFORMERS 5, 6 And 7 Get Dates

Lee B. Golden III

There’s no telling how Paramount’s forthcoming Transformers films will bridge together with Hasbro’s properties following their announcement last December. Rest assured however, more Transformers films are definitely on the way with Akiva Goldman’s writers’ room overseeing exactly how it will all play out with director and actor, Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg returning for fifth installation. That film has finally set a course for June 23, 2017, while a reported Bumblebee spin-off has been dated for a June 8, 2018 release before a seventh installation on June 28, 2019. More to come. H/T: Deadline, CBR