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After 2024’s Transformers One got here and went, it’s been a query of whether or not we’d truly see the Autobots and Decepticons on the large display. The reply now seems to be “sure,” and never simply because Paramount’s nonetheless pretending that crossover with G.I. Joe is occurring.

In keeping with Matt Belloni at Puck News, the studio is spinning up a number of Transformers motion pictures. One is claimed to be helmed by One director Josh Cooley, and can be live-action. The opposite is claimed to be coming from ex-franchise steward Michael Bay, who’s at the moment working as a “hands-on producer” however may probably direct. Bay dipped out after 2017’s The Last Knight and has maintained a producer credit score on later movies, however the franchise hasn’t been hitting those self same monetary highs since his exit behind the digital camera.

In the meantime, Puck didn’t have any data on the opposite three rumored Transformers initiatives, and the G.I. Joe crossover is claimed to have two separate concepts which might be each in early phases. Both manner, this isn’t precisely a brand new place for the franchise: pre-Final Knight, there have been stated to be a lot of Transformers motion pictures within the works, however plans for a cinematic universe have been halted after Knight underperformed. In 2021, Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto was hooked up to direct a movie, and Paramount’s talked about doing a sequel to 2023’s Rise of the Beasts.

All Paramount reportedly has to do is have a Transformers film in manufacturing by 2029 to keep up the rights to the IP. If it’s obtained this many initiatives within the works, one in all them ought to theoretically be prepared by then. Will folks be enthusiastic about them? That’s one other matter.

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