First of all No; Rob Liefeld is not involved with the Transformers Franchise. This famous comic book creator who is involved with creations such as Deadpool and Youngblood, recently got a chance to experience what is like to make a movie for the Transformers Cinematic Universe.
Speaking to Cinemablend, Mr. Liefeld said
“So I kind of was thinking, ‘I’m going to go to this meeting and maybe I’ll get a good look at some Dark Tower stuff,’ and what ended up happening is he goes, ‘I want to hand you this giant black leather-bound equivalent of a phone book,’ and it said, “The Transformers Bible.” This thing is awesome and Akiva goes, ‘I just want you to know, there’s only eight of these in existence. Michael Bay has one, I have one, the head of Paramount has one, and the five other people involved have them.’ So I flipped through it, and it’s every treatment, outlines, screenplay, for the lineup of Transformer films that they have planned, that he was a showrunner for…
So he said to me, he said, ‘It’s pretty cool, right? I’m like, ‘Yeah!’ He’s like, ‘I ran this room; this is what we came up with. This is what I did on behalf of Paramount.’ He goes, ‘In a couple months, I’m going to go run the Hasbro room, and we’re going to do the same thing for ROM, Micronauts, G.I. Joe. We’re going to put together this Hasbro Cinematic Universe, and then he said, I would like to do yours next. And I said, ‘Uhhhhhh, Okay, WOW!'”
Regarding the Writers’ Room:
For those who are a bit fuzzy on the history here, in the summer of 2015 Paramount Pictures had Akiva Goldsman bring together a group of writers — including Robert Kirkman, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Zak Penn, Jeff Pinkner, and more — come together to research the history of the Transformers series and construct a plan for how the movies can branch out into a multi-tiered franchise with strict continuity and overlapping narratives. According to Rob Liefeld, this resulted in a massive tome of scripts and artwork — one that he considered sneaking out of the room and keeping for himself because of its majesty. This book was impressive enough to make him seriously consider such a future for the Extreme Universe he created for Image Comics.
Omega Charge
Hmm, my only experience with Rob is trying to read the Savage Hawkman comics from the New 52. He did the story and art, and I'm sorry but both were absolute shit. And I'm very forgiving with comic books.
Ash from Carolina
I've been doing that for several movies. Looking at the domestic box office I'm not the only person to say I'm done buying movie tickets with this in it's current form. But it seems like somewhere like China pulls these movies out so I'm not sure how we stop other nations from saving these films. There is also the problem of Paramount doesn't really have any big films to fall back on that can make the monster box office. Paramount manages some good mid budget to low budget films but when it comes to the insane budgets we get bad stuff like GI Joe, Ninja Turtles and Ben Hur.
Short of some big shake up at the head of Paramount I honestly don't see any real changes ever. Sony might be bold and reboot Spider Man until they find something that works. Warner Brothers might be bothered by their DC movies not getting critical acclaim. But for Paramount all we seem to get is the most timid of "soft reboots" they can come up with.
flamepanther
Not related to Hasbro or Paramount, just Goldsman. It's explicitly going to be its own universe.
Liefeld's BRIGADE, BLOODSTRIKE More Optioned for EXTREME Cinematic Universe
NeilJam
Seems to me that Hasbro just wants some superheroes for their combined universe plan and co-opting Liefeld's characters is the easiest way to go about that. Are there any other characters owned by independent creators Hasbro might want?
Thorhammer
Well if he was to get involved with say, doing a TF comic, at least he wouldn't have to worry about pesky things like anatomy anymore, which he's never been able to draw. He could just draw 'robots' any old way he chose, seeing as that's been his style with humans for years.
Also, best be prepared to never see a Transformer's feet ever again.
RolandofGilead
All I wanted to hear about was more on the Dark Tower.
Inciteful
Honestly all I get out of this is I want to get my hands on that bible. I'm curious if it's the same one mentioned in the TF: Vault book?
bman29
I concur to the second part. Liefeld is notorious(especially in his early 90s heyday) about ripping off several comic book characters. While most comic characters are derivative to an extent, he mainly went with a slight hair color change and name.
SMB73
All this means is that Michael Bay will still be heavily involved, and that means less TF movies and toys for me to buy.
They must also be seriously kidding themselves if they think anyone is interested in watching movies based on Rob Liefeld's work.
QLRformer
Okay, thanks.
Having a comic-book writer on board could help out though, with the structure/pacing/logic of the story (the action I think is great though).
Terradives
I'm hopeful. For a reboot and a complete trashing of everything Michael bay.
Neko-bot77
I'm hoping for a movie about Transformers starring Transformers with most of the screen time dominated by Transformers…
TFFan01
I'm hoping for a Cybertron prequel.
eagc7
whatever or not this one flops, we will get films not helmed by Bay, for example the Bumblebee movie which starts filming this year will be made by a new yet to be announced director and they are doing an aniamted cybertron movie which i doubt Bay will direct.
optimusmegas
well as long as rob doesn't draw anything i think we'll be alright
SilverOptimus
Thread Cleaned.
Everybody back on track, please. Keep things civil here.
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flamepanther
No. Akiva Goldsman was showing Liefeld what he'd been doing with Transformers in order to sell him (Rob Liefeld) on the idea of creating a Rob Liefeld cinematic universe.