Hasbro subsidiary Allspark Studios is looking for a Narrative Director to lead development of their Franchise Brands including Transformers, My Little Pony, Monopoly etc.
The company consists of Allspark Pictures (live-action production label), Allspark Animation (animation production label) and Cake Mix Studio (company’s Rhode Island-based commercials and short content producer).
Job opening posted yesterday on LinkedIn states the following:
“Hasbro’s Allspark Studios is seeking a Creative Executive to lead the development of some of our key brands across various media platforms. This “Creative Steward” or Narrative Director, will be a development and storytelling partner for our Franchise Brand teams and will be responsible for methodizing and developing character voice, worlds, and high-level intellectual property direction for partners. This role will be called on to write characters, plots, dialogue, and other creative content. In addition, this Creative Steward will be responsible for providing feedback and direction to other Creatives to ensure consistency and exceptional writing quality within all brand expressions. This role will develop, write, and review plots, dialogue, and creative text with and from other Creative partners, and collaborate with them to help every new expression be the best that it possibly can across multiple platforms. This role is an important part of the team tasked with crafting the storytelling that will establish the core vision for a Hasbro assigned brand. Likely candidates should have, at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in English, Creative Writing or Journalism, with 5-7 years’ practical experience in a similar capacity. This is a long-term contract, production opportunity.”
- Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
- Industry: Animation, Motion Pictures & Film, Writing & Editing
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Job Functions: Production Writing/Editing Art/Creative
You can apply through LinkedIn.
Rodimal Rodimus
Touché. I also think Alternators.
I guess some things are just better in full animation.
Darth Gonzo
Generations or Masterpiece.
Rodimal Rodimus
Okay…?
What's your ideal look? Just curious.
Darth Gonzo
It was a bad mix.
Rodimal Rodimus
Touche.
With a bit of G1, right?
Darth Gonzo
I don't care it still look like a Bayformers movie to me.
Rodimal Rodimus
You sure? I keep hearing from people that Bumblebee is itself a reboot, or reset or whatever.
Darth Gonzo
No, full reboot.
Rodimal Rodimus
Agreed. Hopefully, that Bumblebee spinoff would be used a potential launchpad to the HCU.
Darth Gonzo
I hope that's not the case, because then there would be no real reason to want to work for Hasbro. I hope whoever gets this job is more like Feige, and they give us a Hasbro Cinematic Universe we've all been needing or at least good Hasbro solo movies.
ScientistMan
They'll probably just play it safe hire some faceless yes man/woman as opposed to an actual Feige, Snyder, or Kennedy. Someone that can be pushed around and scapegoated if things don't go well. Still, it would be neat to give the brand a creative face beyond Warden.
samisham
I'd be all about that choice, but I doubt Hasbro would want him to do it and I doubt he'd want to it
Katos toy box reviews
I suggest you remedy that. And ,yes, as a 43 year old geek I'm assuming its because you are 21…but easily fixed.
Digger
Perhaps yeah.
Predaking EX
James Wan. Helped create 2 very successful movie franchises and has worked on big budget movies with crazy money made, Fast 7 and Aquaman. Overall I feel he has a good pulse on what the fandom wants in his productions.
drbeakman
It seems a lot more cringey to get entertainment from people being unhappy with things not going well…
I was directing a lot of that more towards the user mudslide, not you. I only quoted your post because you seemed to be in serious defense of Bonaventura in reaction to a more light hearted funny simpsons joke by another user.
i dont think he's "the one" responsible for things being bad, i think he's one of several people who are responsible for the movies being bad! It would be unfair to blame one person, I understand thats unreasonable. but it's pretty clear that he took on roles that were not appropriate for his job description in the process of making bayformers. i am happy to see that hasbro are rectifying that! things seem to be on a good path, and i hope they dont fall back into old habits, because the future looks bright as it stands now…
Sir Spookii
Man with all these different things coming out, I can’t wait till we hear what they have to say at Toy Fair.
Does anyone know the exact day the movie team will be there to announce everything?
Digger
He makes decisions as much as anybody would. And makes do with sudden reboots and series cut short as much as anybody could try. But he did create a great sense of character and care for his characters.
deathdrive
I applied ahhahahha from singapore ahhahahahah no chance =(
deathdrive
I applied ahhahahha from singapore ahhahahahah no chance =(