You can read the full answers to the questions below, but here are the main takeaways:
- They have yet to find a key to make the movie work due to there being a lot of characters in such a crossover
- The film is still in its creative phase, they are still working on what story it could be
- Hemsworth is unsure about his role in that movie at this point, he even jokes about being both Optimus Prime and a GI Joe character, talking to himself
- Bonaventura admits that characterization of the Transformers characters is poorer in live action films than animated projects due to the cost of special effects, meaning less focus and dialogue on the Transformers characters
- They would like to make another solo GI Joe film
Di Bonaventura on where they are at with the Transformers GI Joe movie:
We are definitely in the process of figuring out how to integrate G.I. Joe and Transformers. We’re in the creative process. We really have not discovered the key to that yet because one of the difficulties with it is there are so many characters that you feel you have to service, and when you do that, you never really deliver any good characters. So the trick here is to figure out how do you combine these two worlds with the least number of people or robots? That’s where it’s a big trick that we’re trying to figure out. So, we’re working with that.
Chris Hemsworth on his inclusion in the planned Live Action Movie.
“I don’t know yet,” Hemsworth admitted. “I keep getting asked about that. [Producer] Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] had brought it up when I was recording this film … and we started talking about where the universe could expand and how fun it could be. And look, I’m just down for great filmmakers, great scripts, great stories. There’s a lot of potential in this universe, in both the G.I. Joe world and the Transformers world, to recreate, try something different.”
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“We’ve had an early conversations about it, and about what the world has to offer, and I think there’s some really fun opportunities to expand the universe. Nothing official yet, it’s been in early creative discussions. But who knows? We’ll see. I love this experience. I loved working with Lorenzo Bonaventura and Paramount, I worked with Paramount years ago. But Lorenzo I’ve known for a lot of years and he’s just such a great creative partner.
[It would be] really fun to give something to audiences that’s a new take and something fresh. I’m not even sure [who I would play]. I was like, “Am I going to be, like, talking to myself? Am I still going to play Optimus Prime and then switch over to G.I. Joe? Do I get paid twice? What’s happening here?” That’s the important question.”
Di Bonaventura on standalone G.I. Joe movies:
We do intend to bring back G.I. Joe, a standalone. We’ve created a complication for ourselves because we just did the [Transformers: One] animated movie, and to our wonder and to our real happiness, because there are no human characters in the animated movie, the characters of the robots are so much more sophisticated around it. They cost too much in live-action, so we’re always trying to figure out how few words we can get from that, whereas, the animation is all the same. So, we’ve set a third problem for ourselves here, which is now the audience would be disappointed if we return to the same level of characterization we’ve had up to now.
Source is Entertainment Weekly: https://ew.com/chris-hemsworth-clarifie ... 24-8684201
