We have some great news to share with you tonight. Articles from Deadline and Hollywood Reporter confirm that a new animated prequel Transformers film is in the works and Toy Story 4’s Josh Cooley has been hired as director.
Oscar winner Josh Cooley will work from a script from ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. This will be an original new story (apart from previous Transformers live-action movies and the Bumblebee movie) placed in Cybertron which will revolve around the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.
Update: Josh Cooley, via his Twitter account, shared a tweet with an Autobot insignia and the message “Roll Out”. We are glad Mr. Cooley confirmed himself this project.
Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates! Now click on the discussion link below and sound off your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Magnum Dongus
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fallenspartan
Paramount has rightfully earned a lot of criticism for how they handle the TF films. As you precisely stated, people conflate criticism with having hard feelings against the company. It really doesn’t foster productive debates if we just accuse people of being biased against corporations. Then no one learns from their mistakes.
Autobot Burnout
I do find it amusing that it's become such a thing to react to people saying bad things about Paramount, that pointing out how Paramount legitimately has been in a bad position for years is somehow regarded as personal bias instead of simply an observation from known financial data. One more massive flop and the company is toast.
octobotimus
Transformers projects in a nutshell.
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ErbFan28
2.5 years. Damn.
fallenspartan
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want them to fail. I’m sure most of us here don’t want Paramount to go under. We just want them to provide a good quality Transformers film. But alas, they are still shooting themselves in the foot with people like Lorenzo calling the shots.
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octobotimus
Animated movies can be canceled at any point in time. There are a shit ton of animated movies out there that are 80% completed or basically completed and just needed to be rendered out and voiced that were scrapped completely.
Autobot Burnout
This isn't about my opinion, Paramount's finances have been in the toilet since 2017 because their movies simply haven't been doing well. This is the harsh reality of economics – you don't make profit and your company is going to go bankrupt. Paramount at the end of the day is a business that will go away if it can't reach a sustainable level of profitability, no matter how much you don't want to believe what was reported as news some months back.
This means nothing about how far into production it is. Bumblebee only ended up getting a pass instead of being canceled outright because it was in post-production and even then Paramount needed more money to finish it. That was the whole bit about Hasbro renegotiating their partnership with Paramount in order to cover the money lost when the HuaHua Media contract was revoked as a result of TLK's disasterous performance.
If Paramount runs out of money again and nobody wants to put more money into them to finish a project associated with something that's seen as an unprofitable venture…what do you think will happen? People aren't going to work for free.
decepticon seeker
That’s something else.
TF Hot Rod
I doubt it can be canned since they're already to far into it and also just it's currently in production
Also bad for TF's as a franchise and even the toys.
Rojixus
If Paramount fails due to its bad business decisions, you won't find me shedding a tear.
decepticon seeker
You really want Paramount to fail don’t you?If one of the big studios also fails then it would be bad for cinema.
Autobot Burnout
Unless it is canned for any reason. If ROTB flops, I don't know if Paramount is even going to remain functional with how much debt it will be in.
Minibots
Well if ROTB ends up being a piece of shit at least we have this movie that might be good.
96megatron
Untitled #Transformers animated movie will debut 7/19/24
Matthew Luke on Twitter: "@ErikDavis That must be the Cybertron prequel by Josh Cooley." / Twitter
Autobot Burnout
I have to disagree since I personally like Ragnarok the most. Excluding Loki who is by far the best part of the Thor franchise period because of Hiddleston's portrayal, I find Thor 1 to be ultimately a boring set-up for all the stuff in Avengers and Thor 2 I still can't take seriously because ELVES with LASERS are the main antagonists. Thor 3, though, there it actually has Thor be more than simply bumble his way through everything until he inevitably uses his powers to save everyone, demonstrates the brotherly bond he has with Loki and why he's put up with all of Loki's shit over the past several films, and is self-aware enough about the plot being silly as hell that it knows when to poke fun at itself with crap like 'the Revengers'.
TheSoundwave
Thor 1 is easily my favorite, I like the high fantasy mixed with science aesthetic. Even though there might be a bit too much of Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings, I actually like the more grounded story with the human element.
Prince Caspian has actually grown on me over the years. It's my personal least-favorite of the three (I actually quite like Voyage of the Dawn Treader), but I think they're all pretty good and even a bit underrated.
And I'm also in agreement that LOTR's runtime is an issue. I think it's justified considering the epic story they were telling, but I do feel the runtime eventually. They're not movies I want to put on all the time.
Magnus Leader
I very much agree, though from a slightly different angle.
Thor 1 is my favorite out of the Thor movies so far, and I still think it holds up as the best Thor film to this day. Throwing away the aspects that made the first film so good was a big mistake for Ragnarok to make.
As for Narnia, I think I actually love 2 more than 1 (though 1 is very close behind 2) precisely because 2 takes inspiration from LOTR without being as unbearably long.
Yeah, the main thing that prevents LOTR from being the greatest films ever to me is the fact that each film is 3 hours long.
TheSoundwave
I feel the same way. Initially everyone went crazy for Ragnarok, but I'm glad more people seem to be admitting it has tone problems. I think it's a fun romp, but to me it feels like lite-Guardians. Too many silly jokes at the expense of serious moments (and too many "lol random" gags), and the movie just doesn't have the emotional weight and themes of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Or even James Gunn's meticulous attention to detail and high CGI standards.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for the Guardians movies, but I don't think it was a smart idea to try and emulate that style unless you really know what you're doing. I view those as some of the better blockbusters in recent decades, even if Vol 2 has some pacing issues. It's kind of like how Narnia 2 feels like LOTR-lite…I'd rather just go watch LOTR.