Transformers One - Production Designer Interview Outlines Current Status of Sequels

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I feel sequels to TF One would be interesting to see. I already came up with some of my own ideas like the second movie being called "Sparks of War" as both factions race to find more of what Sentinel Prime took from them prior to the first movie's events while Optimus and Megatron have their own views on the war; maybe Optimus could grow a little too obsessed with stopping it while Megatron has a sense of regret?

A third movie I thought of, Quintesson Conspiracy, has the Quintessons strike at the worst moment, taking either the faction leaders or a huge chunk of both teams, forcing Optimus and Megatron to set aside their differences and find ways to defeat the invaders with the help of the spirit of Quintus Prime, who will show regret in creating the Quintessons and will not be repeating yet another true villain twist. I also thought of an idea where Prime and the spirit of Quintus must merge together to defeat the mother brain of the Quintessons, but at the cost of Optimus's own life (Megatron could also die so both factions could now live peacefully as their leaders wanted).

I feel like a lot of ideas for sequels to TFOne would range from insane to awesome, especially since the movie itself feels so vanilla and been-there-done-that a la second-rate animated films, tone/character/story-beat wise. Shame a lot of people see it as how I described it and let it underperform, even with a desperate gimmick account's word of mouth.

Triceratops3 wrote:I hope to see this film just one more time in theaters.

Better do so quick. It's already on its way out.

Quantum Surge wrote:I feel sequels to TF One would be interesting to see. I already came up with some of my own ideas like the second movie being called "Sparks of War"

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A third movie I thought of, Quintesson Conspiracy, has the Quintessons strike at the worst moment

I feel like it would make sense to have the second movie deal with the Quintessons and the third movie deal with the Autobots vs Decepticons.

My thoughts:

As far as we know, the Quintessons still control the surface. There's no reason they would have relinquished control. It's not like they would be scared of the Autobots when they held their own for a long war, defeated the Primes, and have all the Energon they could need.

The second movie feels like it could be Autobots AND Decepticons (separately) battling the Quintessons to reclaim the surface while also dealing with a Cold War tensions between the two factions as they gain territory on the surface.

The third movie feels like it would need to be Autobots vs Decepticons as the grand finale. You can't have a proper War for Cybertron without reclaiming Cybertron first.

'saw the film in french today,I'm the only one who waited for the post-credit scene.I would say it has the never boring status which is good for me,a good dynamism.The most surprising is that the humor is moderate,this Bee is a bit demented.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:As far as we know, the Quintessons still control the surface. There's no reason they would have relinquished control. It's not like they would be scared of the Autobots when they held their own for a long war, defeated the Primes, and have all the Energon they could need.

Do they, though? They got a big load of it in this film, but the Quintesson talking to Sentinel did say it wasn't enough and Sentinel said he would get the rest. And now with Sentinel's demise, where will they get more? The Autobots seemingly control at least the mines (assuming all the cogless sided with them), so unless the Quints launch a full invasion to regain control of the mines and the miners, they won't have energon.

They probably would launch a full invasion. Their initial attack on the Primes seemed like just the beginning of a full planetary conquest, but what stopped them from just storming Iacon and taking it over was Sentinel cutting a deal with them. They leave Iacon alone in exchange for his supplying them with energon, all so he could live a cozy life and lord above the other Cybertronians. But now that Sentinel's out of the picture, the deal would be off and the Quints would have nothing preventing them from now deciding to go on the full offensive to take Iacon and all its wealth and resources for themselves.

I assumed it was a Bug's Life / Seven Samurai etc situation where the Quints allowed Sentinel to "rule" (i.e. manage their labour-intensive resource planet for them) as long as he paid the tithe whenever they called in to collect it, and their demands would be for as much as they could take - I took it that it "wasn't enough" as in it was less than their agreed amount rather than the Quints desperately needed more.

Given that the Energon was flowing freely when the Quintessons previously invaded, I could certainly see them coming back in force now that it's there for the taking again rather than needing to be laboriously mined up.

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:What's especially interesting here is that he mentions that they're exploring "future projects," not just sequels, which makes me wonder if there could be more than just Transformers Two in the works.

Sure, anything's possible. But even the failure that was The Last Knight had Hasbro and Paramount exploring potential future projects for that movie, too, back before they decided to go in a different direction after the warmer reception that the Bumblebee movie received. They like to keep their options open, so we'll see what happens. Expect the worst but hope for the best.

Sabrblade wrote:But even the failure that was The Last Knight had Hasbro and Paramount exploring potential future projects for that movie, too, back before they decided to go in a different direction after the warmer reception that the Bumblebee movie received. They like to keep their options open

Glyph wrote:Yeah, while allowing for optimism I note that "future projects" is extremely vague and non-committal - if they were seriously planning a sequel, it likely would have been announced straight away, would be in development already, and they'd have said "sequel". So I'm firmly in camp "outlook not so good, but never say never" for the time being.

I guess what has me specifically optimistic here is the specific mention of being in talks with Josh Cooley. While the phrasing of "future projects" is vague, the mention of working with this movie's director specifically on future projects is much less vague and certainly implies that they want more from him, whether it be a sequel to Transformers One or something else entirely.

The vagueness of the comments has me very cautiously optimistic that there could be other stories, (like perhaps a prequel about the Primes) in the works. This is especially encouraged by his mention of the facets yet to be explored in entertainment.

I could see a sequel with giant characters as a way to fight the invaders,'could be bodybuilding with spectators.They have a tendency to be rehashes:after the event that was the transformations thanks to the cogs,what else?Combining or growing.
Some smaller characters?Another reanimation of corpse?