Looks like trouble’s brewing in paradise. The latest development at Paramount suggests that Hasbro Cinematic Universe will ramp down by omitting M.A.S.K. and ROM: The Space Knight movies from the proposed series.
“Those are probably not likely to see the light of day, unless they’re moving on separate from us,” said Jonathan Goldstein. “It’s a funny thing. We spent three weeks in a room with a lot of talented writers. We broke 11 or so movies and, I don’t know. It just kind of went into the vortex. There’s been some leadership changes at Paramount, so it’s hard to say. Nobody’s contacted us about those.”
However, G.I. Joe and Micronauts movies will go ahead as planned. Rather than take place in the same continuity as the previous two G.I. Joe movies, the new entry will be a reboot that hits theaters on March 27, 2020. As for Micronauts, it will be released on October 16, 2020.
Despite whatever that is happening in the background, the upcoming Live Action Transformers Movies are not affected. Bumblebee: The Movie will see its December 2018 release and Transformers 6; the next official Transformers film is planned for summer 2019 and is currently undergoing a director search. Nothing else is known about this next installment right now other than the fact that it will probably stand as the direct sequel to The Last Knight. An Animated Prequel Origin Story is also in development by Hasbro owned Boulder Media Limited with an unspecified release date.
Speaking ahead of UK Toy Fair 2018 tomorrow, Hasbro Vice President Stephen Davis stated “Looking to 2018, we are excited to build upon the success of Transformers Franchise with Bumblebee, focusing on one of the most beloved characters in the Transformers Universe. We are extremely excited for the Bumblebee film as we continue to expand the Transformers Universe, and we expect our fans will be as well. The toyline is the original inspiration, and while the toy sales don’t directly dictate the stories we develop, Bumblebee is one of our most popular characters.”
Livingdeaddan
That's a shame, coz those writers did so well with TLK! Hmmmmmm!!!
Delta
GI Joe and Transformers are the only 2 on the list I want to see on screen together.
Ash from Carolina
The Bumblebee movie will be out because they are already so far along on the film. Barring some crazy unforeseen thing it's going to hit it's release date.
But after Bumblebee all we really have is Paramount has green lit another movie. But the thing is green lighting a film is not any form of confirmation. To bump up the box office for their Fantastic Four reboot Fox announced they had green lit a sequel to the movie knowing full well they had zero intention of putting more money into a failed franchise. Warner Brothers announced an entire slate of live action DC movies only to scale back their movies when Justice League didn't do the box office numbers they wanted. The release date of the Flash movie has been moved multiple times as it seems like every month brings the news of someone else who will direct the movie if it ever gets made.
There is nothing at all that would force Paramount to release a Transformers movie in 2019. If they wanted to they could delay the Transformers film and put some other film into that release date. They could even just leave that release date empty.
BIOMEC
That is a shame…
redwolfbear
Animated Prequel Origin Story
DARE I HOPE IT BE A PREQUEL ANIMATED MOVIE FOR TRANFORMERS ANIMATED COVERING THE GREAT WAR/THE BATTLE FOR IACON?
redwolfbear
Animated Prequel Origin Story
DARE I HOPE IT BE A PREQUEL ANIMATED MOVIE FOR TRANFORMERS ANIMATED COVERING THE GREAT WAR/THE BATTLE FOR IACON?
Darth Gonzo
The Transformers aren't apart of the Hasbro Movie Universe.
Magnum Dongus
Woah.
BIOMEC
I wouldn't mind it!
Terradives
But should they?
BIOMEC
MASK has more sense due to the use of transforming vehicles! It would be quite easy to introduce them into the transformers universe, just like IDW did.
Darth Gonzo
Well at least Hasbro isn't just trying to put them all in the G.I. Joe movie so they can rush in to a shared movie universe like WB & DC.
primalxconvoy
That's why experiencing a variety of reviews creates an all round experience. It's the same with toy reviews for me.
Arguably though, your comment regarding reviews could easily be ascribed to film makers, too. In fact, I'll admit that was what I thought you meant when I first read it.
Loxobot1221
Holy hell, I don’t think I’ve ever walked through such a collection of opinions since the last time I was on this site! But whatev, my two cents about this deal:
I literally care nothing about this cinematic universe, I’ve never been a fan of any of the properties and the whole thing reeks of gimmickry. Sure, they could be good films, but if IDW couldn’t do it while including the actual breadwinner then it would take a miracle to make this good. Maybe someday, someone will actually learn the lesson that effort needs to be put into these universe to turn them into money machines, but I doubt that a Toy-based franchise will hit the curve.
I deeply wish that there were more movies and movie makers who truly cared about what they were doing, more James Roberts and MTMTEs then Mike Costas and Ongoings. More MCUs the DCEUs. More Pixars then Sonys.
Oh well, at least we’ll have something to mock!
Razzy
I guess my long time dream of an MLP and TF crossover complete with A Queen Chrysalis transformer will remain just that, a dream. :<
Cya
Raziel-chan
Autobot Burnout
It's weird what's going on with the franchise right now. Bumblebee is going to be the test to see if the series still holds water (and after that abomination of the BB movie design we saw on the box? Already not looking good there), which would have given them a year to produce TF6 relatively safely (though the whole "three films in three years" thing was some stunt they really shouldn't have done). However, it really doesn't show any confidence on their part on the film doing well when they move it to December so it doesn't compete with Incredibles 2 (a film fourteen years coming, except unlike Duke Nukem Forever the chances of it being actually good are significantly higher) and some other big names.
This means TF6, which is slated to come out maybe seven months later, has to be done filming by that point and well into post production. That's lost investment anyway so it becomes a toss up of cutting losses and just trashing a mostly complete film, avoiding any more expenses like marketing, or going for broke (litterally) and pushing TF6 even if Bumblebee bombs.
From what I know, Lorenzo fucked with the scripts to try and pack more story into The Last Failure. Said as much in an interview (though I've lost the link).
Seriously, fire that asshole and the film quality would rise exponentially. That man has no fucking clue how to treat the movies right.
ZapRowsdower
The writer's room was a stunt show for shareholders. I don't see any good coming out of it, other than big talk and allusions to how great those scripts were.
REALLY, Hasbro? Is that why the script to Last Knight was so phenomenal?
I don't doubt the good ideas that came from the writer's room; I doubt Hasbro and Paramount's collective ability to do anything meaningful with good ideas.
Autovolt 127
Yikes.
I kinda would've liked Rom but I could see some rights issues being a factor.
and I will not mourn for M.A.S.K's loss.
WishfulThinking
If Paramount loses faith in the franchise, it doesn't matter what's confirmed. TF6's plug can be pulled if the Bumblebee movie bombs…and there's an outside chance it might.
Windsweeper II
Maybe. But it's too late now.
Entertainment industry lost me thinking ever story should be exactly the same as the previous forever and ever filled with what they think people should see and they are never getting me back.
I only watch and read Transformer fiction because it's Transformers. I don't even care about anything else any more fiction-wise.
It's always the same crap made by arrogant people who think they should decide what people get to see and nothing should be made that deviates from their distorted worldview.