Transformers at Cinemacon: GI Joe Crossover Movie Confirmed and Transformers One Footage Shown

Emerje wrote:A couple times I've heard the crossover would be based loosely on the 80s Marvel crossover, but I don't know if that's something that was officially said or if it was pure speculation from people that think that was their one and only crossover.

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."

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.

Spider5800 wrote: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.

snavej wrote: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.

Rodimus Prime wrote:It will never happen, but I would LOVE to see a straight adaptation of G.I. Joe #138 to #142, which is the prequel to the G2 comics, and could be a prequel in the new TF/Joe live action series as well. It would be a very good way to introduce Megatron into this "new" continuity, and he wouldn't have to be a gun.

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.

“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.”

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.

Bumblevivisector wrote:"The Key to Make the Transformers GI Joe Crossover Movie Work"

Hmmmmmmm...



Scarlett Johansson as Marissa Faireborn?


Somehow strikes me as a bit more plausible after the big MCU announcement at SDCC.

That said, there’s another reason that Caple landed the I Am Legend 2 gig, and that’s because he was available after turning down the chance to direct the Transformers-G.I. Joe movie for Paramount. And why was he available?

I’m told by multiple sources it’s because he got into a heated argument with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and walked away from the project.

I’m not going to get into the specifics of what I heard, but suffice it to say, I’m told that some of DiBonaventura’s comments were interpreted as racially-tinged and that the old-school producer — di Bonaventura is 67 years old — suggested Caple should be more grateful for the opportunity to direct the big-budget crossover movie, which is slated to star Chris Hemsworth.

Both Caple and di Bonaventura are represented by CAA, which denied that any incident occurred, with one agency insider suggesting it was merely a heated negotiation that went south — nothing out of the ordinary in the cutthroat world of Hollywood.

I’m certainly not suggesting that di Bonaventura is racist or anything like that, but I think we’re all guilty of micro-aggressions and things like that from time to time. From what I’ve been told by several different parties, it certainly sounds like that’s what happened here… at the very least.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, that's a good move. Caple Jr. shouldn't have directed RoTB, his focus and motivation wasn't beneficial for the Transformers characters. He's a mediocre director to begin with. Hopefully his replacement will have the best interests of the franchise(s) in mind, instead of what we got with RoTB.

SkyFire Prime wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, that's a good move. Caple Jr. shouldn't have directed RoTB, his focus and motivation wasn't beneficial for the Transformers characters. He's a mediocre director to begin with. Hopefully his replacement will have the best interests of the franchise(s) in mind, instead of what we got with RoTB.

Hi Lorenzeholio, didn't know you had an account here.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Realistically, they should just not do the GI Joe/TF movie.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Realistically, they should just not do the GI Joe/TF movie.

noctorro wrote:Once someone drops the word racism there's a whole platoon of people eating it up. So tired of that.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

SkyFire Prime wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, that's a good move. Caple Jr. shouldn't have directed RoTB, his focus and motivation wasn't beneficial for the Transformers characters. He's a mediocre director to begin with. Hopefully his replacement will have the best interests of the franchise(s) in mind, instead of what we got with RoTB.

Hi Lorenzeholio, didn't know you had an account here.

Are you going to be alright? Do you need a safe space?

Cyber Bishop wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

SkyFire Prime wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, that's a good move. Caple Jr. shouldn't have directed RoTB, his focus and motivation wasn't beneficial for the Transformers characters. He's a mediocre director to begin with. Hopefully his replacement will have the best interests of the franchise(s) in mind, instead of what we got with RoTB.

Hi Lorenzeholio, didn't know you had an account here.

Are you going to be alright? Do you need a safe space?

LOL sounds like some internet asshole trying to be all edgy. Only safe space for the trolls is 6 feet under the ground.

Yes I said it and I meant it.