Chris Hemsworth in Talks to Star in Transformers GI Joe Crossover Movie

My expectations are rock bottom. I bet it will be a "serious" movie that will be generic as a saltless cracker.

But if by some miracle, the movie go full Sunbow with the craziness of the original G1 cartoons, I'd be pleasantly surprised.

Okay... But will he be replacing Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime?
Or will he be a human character?

I'm only positive about real Transformers live action with Bumblebee. That was really a step in the right direction and would've been a great franchise starter. Escalating with more bots and eventually combiners etc.

Rise of the Beasts is so damn full of mistakes and just bland as hell.
The best youtube explanation is Filmento's review. He hits the nail on the head on the major things that are wrong with Rise of the Beasts.

And adding GI Joe to Transformers. .... that's just a ton of cringe man.
The GI Joe movies were silly with fun moments, Snake Eyes I couldn't finish watching a second time. It's just weak man, they are weak movies, and Rise of the Beasts might be even more below mid than the Joe movies. And then matching the two together?

Maybe the makers thought they had a Batman v Superman movie reveal moment, but the only reaction in the cinema were people laughing like, omg that's so stupid.

While the GI Joe Transformers crossover movie is underway at Paramount, leaded by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, it was still missing a writer and a director (Steven Caple Jr is not currently attached to the film). Well, it now has a writer and it's Derek Connolly, who is a true darling over at Hollywood, with an expertise in huge budget franchise movies. Those include Rise of Skywalker, Kong Skull Island, Detective Pikachu and all 3 Jurassic World films. All those films have been box office successes, many reaching the billion dollar mark.

Say what you want about those movies, but it seems Derek knows how to write a billion dollar movie. We'll see if his winning streak continues with this Transformers Gi Joe movie.

Brokebot wrote:This is not good news. This is one of the idiots that brought us attacking Star Destroyers on horseback and "Somehow, Palpatine returned."

to be fair:

1. that film still made over a billion dollars, which is something that hasnt happened in a TF film in 10 years
2. he didn't write the somehow palpatine line. While they kept the story he developped, the whole film was rewritten after his original script.

william-james88 wrote:

Brokebot wrote:This is not good news. This is one of the idiots that brought us attacking Star Destroyers on horseback and "Somehow, Palpatine returned."

to be fair:

1. that film still made over a billion dollars, which is something that hasnt happened in a TF film in 10 years
2. he didn't write the somehow palpatine line. While they kept the story he developped, the whole film was rewritten after his original script.

1. Fine. A fleet of Star Destroyers constructed UNDERGROUND that have to crash their way to the surface, and then don't know which way is up once they're in the air. Admittedly, that bit of cinematic dipshittery has Jar Jar Abrams stink all over it, but I digress.

2. It made a billion dollars based on its brand name, not it's quality. If it were a generic sci fi movie stripped of it's Star Wars connections but with the same basic script, it probably wouldn't have made its production money back.

It was also a different time. If you wanted to see a movie -- ANY movie, you went to the theater. Even mediocre movies had a decent shot of breaking even or turning a profit. Now, three weeks after its release it'll be on a streaming service, so why bother? I honestly don't see enough of a demand to make a GI Joe/Transformers crossover movie profitable. The last two Transformers efforts were hardly blockbusters, and none of the GI Joe movies exactly shattered expectations.

Remain optimistic all you like. As for me, I haven't seen anything floating in the sewage flowing out of Hollywood that would give me any reason to believe a forthcoming movie will be anything more than the disjointed nonsense that came before it.

I was about to trash that writer but there's Detective Pikachu to his credits.

So I 'll keep an open mind.

Rise of Skywalker and the Jurassic World movies were garbage.

Detective Pikachu and Kong: Skull Island were pretty good.

So no idea how to feel about this. I assume multiple writers were involved on all of these movies, so it's hard to gauge if this is good or bad.

Detective Pikachu was awful, and that was even seeing it in the cinema in Japan. Oh well, even people that write stinkers may actually write a good one at some point.

I like the posters optimism.

But this is absolute bad news.
Detective Pikachu was a joke. All of the Jurassic World movies were garbage storywise, 0.0 creative thought and military combat raptor... TRASH guys, expect more from a big budget movie. Go watch Godzilla Minus One.

Rise of Skywalker, holy hell gusy, average? Mid? It was terrible! Absolute garbage. It looked pretty, it made some cash on the last few 40 year old guys who had 1 crumble of hope left. But it was garbage. I am all the Jedi, a freaking measurement tool to pinpoint the location of McMuffin number 5 but only when the damn ship crashed on a planet... Guys, Killing Chewy only for 3 minutes in, he was on a different ship.

This guy is the worst, he is horrible and should never be hired again for anything above 1000 dollars.

Rise of the Beasts was a 4-5 out of 10. It was mid, again McMuffin hunting and bland as hell (watch filmento's review). So the bar is set low yet again. Not Last Knight low, that was just an insult.

I have zero f+k all hope on this movie. The whole theater cringed with the post credit scene about GI Joe. The Joe movies themselves are okay for popcorn fun but could be way, way better.

I have some hope for Transformers One.

And that High Moon Studios somehow comes back from the dead like Palpatine.

Well, I'm reluctant to see this film or films. The Transformers are vastly superior. Any suggestion that GI Joe or Cobra have a realistic chance against them is ludicrous.