Firstly, it has been announced that the writer's room for the Transformers Cinematic Universe has been finalized. They have added the last few writers that they felt they needed, and it still looks very promising. The new writers are:
Ken Nolan: The only really credible thing he's done is Black Hawk Down back in 2001. I have actually never seen that one before, so I can't judge his writing at this point. It'll be interesting to see what he brings to the table.
Geneve Robertson-Dworet: I really couldn't find anything he's done before. I think he did a lesser known movie called Hibernation back in 2012, but other than that, he's an unknown writer. I'm wondering how well he's going to do in this.
Christina Hodson: She's best known for being in the writer's room for the TFCU. In other words, nothing. Wow, a lot of unknowns and inexperienced are coming into the group now.
Lindsey Beer: All she's doing is a remake of Short Circuit. Oh boy. Like we really needed that. Ever.
And finally, we have...
Steven DeKnight: He actually has some credibility- he was the show runner for Daredevil! I absolutely loved Daredevil! Everyone loved Daredevil! I'm actually excited that he's on the team! He's undoubtedly going to bring something awesome to us!
In total, we have 12 writers that are being supervised by Akiva Goldsman. It's looking pretty promising so far. There have been reports of a Bumblebee spinoff, and a prequel that acts as an origin story on Cybertron. Well, during an interview, Akiva Goldsman hinted at another potential movie that could be added to the mix- a Beast Wars movie!
If you're unfamiliar with Beast Wars, it was a Transformers TV show in the late 90's that really took the franchise in a new direction- instead of turning into machines and vehicles, the robots turned into animals. Optimus was a gorilla, Megatron was a T-Rex, etc. It was done with 3D animation, and for its time, it looked good. The entire series was actually pretty good, but it was pretty awkward sometimes with its animation. Especially in the beginning, where it was still a new thing. Best example:
I don't know what to make of that.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure they'll be able to pull off the Beast Wars movie alright. Remember- it's only been hinted at. Whether it's actually made is another story. I hope it is, though!
But now, we come to the biggest piece of news that I'm sure every critic that hates Transformers will just kill themselves over... there are supposed to be... about 12 more Transformers movies. For fans like me, it's an exciting thing. For critics that hate the franchise, well... they don't need to watch it anyway. If they didn't like the first 4, then why would they like the next 12? Or is there going to be exactly 12 at all?
On this subject, an article on Forbes said this-
"Monday, June 8th is the first official day of operations at Paramount’s Transformers’ story room, where almost a dozen writers will steep their collective heads in franchise lore before churning out the next decades worth of stories for movies and television.
"We've got a work space that is beautifully production designed to be immersive with a strong sense of the franchise history…We will look at the toys, the TV shows, the merchandise, everything that has been generated by Hasbro, from popular to forgotten iterations, and establish a mythological time line. It has been designed with a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches and writers and artists. After that super saturation, the writers will figure out not one, but numerous films that will extend the universe."
"All of the writers will come away with this exercise with a movie treatment to write, including Goldsman. Those writers will then have first crack at writing the scripts for treatment that meet the approval of Paramount, Bay, [Steven] Spielberg, Hasbro and the producers."
If Goldsman is also making a treatment to add to the pile made by his 11 writers, that’s a total of 12 new Transformers movies that will be pitched to Paramount in the first round, and all of them will be capable of interconnecting with each other. There’s no telling how many of the pitches will be green-lit or how many stories will be kicked down to Transformers TV or video games, but the amount of output expected is impressive."
Just to clarify: There probably won't be 12 total movies. Maybe some writers will team up for one movie together. Some ideas might not get the green light, and maybe some of it will go towards video games or TV shows. The movie total might be 8. Somewhere lower than 12. Nobody knows at this point. All that is known is that Transformers 5 is going to be the first thing that Paramount and Hasbro will work on. The spinoffs and prequels and other components of the TFCU will come after. I'm looking forward to it. As long as it's entertaining and fun all the way, I'm in. I just hope that Michael Bay doesn't direct any more. He's had his shot at 4 movies. Let the guy go do other things! I'd really love to see someone else tackle the Transformers movies!
Either way, the most promising part is that the writers are going through all the different iterations of Transformers. They're looking at all the toys, comics, shows, and anything else to get some sort of inspiration for future movies. I hope it ends well.
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