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Update: March 27, 2015

TRANSFORMERS Copies Marvel Studios and Creates Their Own Cinematic Universe

Deadline reports today that the Paramount is looking to go ahead and put together a plan not only for Transformers 5, but for multiple Transformers sequels and spinoffs, and they’ve enlisted writer/producer/director Akiva Goldsman—whose screenplay credits range from the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind to I Am Legend to The Divergent Series: Insurgent—to spearhead the effort.

The idea is for Goldsman, Bay, executive producer Steven Spielberg, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to put together a so-called “writer’s room” and develop a Transformers multi-sequel idea as well as potential Transformers spinoff movies. The report likens it to how James Cameron enlisted four screenwriters to write the scripts for all three Avatar sequels at once, but it’s clear that Paramount is actually cribbing from Marvel’s playbook. They want an inter-connected universe and a serialized set of Transformers movies rather than standalone entries.

Deadline notes that Bay wants this all hammered out by the time he’s done with 13 Hours so that Transformers 5 “can move forward quickly,” but it’s unclear if that means Bay intends to direct or just produce. The report also says that Goldsman might not actually do any screenwriting here, he may just act as the “showrunner”, helping incubate the ideas and hire writers to do the actual penning of the script. If you needed any further proof that the “inter-connected universe” idea is essentially approaching films like television, here is a literal writer’s room.

New Transformers Sequels, Spinoffs to Be Spearheaded by Akiva Goldsman



Link to Transformers: Age of Extinction thread:
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/t...us-honest-trailer-dragonlords-review.2334347/

 

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Update: May 19, 2015

Group Writers for TRANSFORMERS Universe Include Robert Kirkman and More

Two months after Paramount and the Transformers brain trust of Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura picked Akiva Goldsman to incubate ideas for a multi-part sequel and spinoff films based on the billion-dollar franchise, they have finalized their “writers room.” And it’s a doozy.

Goldsman’s four-team roster features some of the top names in sci-fi, Deadline has learned: Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man scribes Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim's Zak Penn and Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost‘s Jeff Pinkner.

Deadline is hearing the ink isn’t even dry on the deals, but that is a major-league lineup to join Goldsman, who is spearheading it all for the studio, Hasbro, Spielberg and Bay (Bay and Goldsman were college buddies at Wesleyan). More writers will be added.

This is a major priority for new Zak Penn Jeff Pinkner 2Motion Picture Group President Marc Evans, who’s tasked with getting more movies made. It marks an intriguing new step as studios put even more of a premium on the care and feeding of tentpole franchises, as is the case with James Cameron’s Avatar sequels and Disney’s process for developing its Marvel tentpoles.

‘Transformers’ Spinoff and Sequel Scribes Set: ‘Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman & More

 

[TheStruggle]

Still Waiting for the Transformers/Fast & Furious crossover

 

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Group Writers for TRANSFORMERS Sequels, Spinoffs Revealed

Two months after Paramount and the Transformers brain trust of Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura picked Akiva Goldsman to incubate ideas for a multi-part sequel and spinoff films based on the billion-dollar franchise, they have finalized their

 

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Whats the spinoff/crossover?

There's no info yet on what the spinoffs will be. There is no crossover. TheStruggle was just joking. (Though a serious Mad Max crossover is interesting. Hmmm.)

 

[yakuza01]

Still Waiting for the Transformers/Fast & Furious crossover

I would prefer a Transformers/Gobots crossover

 

[MMouse]

There's no info yet on what the spinoffs will be. There is no crossover. TheStruggle was just joking. (Though a serious Mad Max crossover is interesting. Hmmm.)

Ha! Would be comical but offensive to millers masterpiece.

Max universe needs to steer cleer away from that.

If you want robots I can handle maybe a crossover of matrix or Terminator (machines were the cause of post apocalyptic ruins slowly waiting for human to extinct on its own)

 

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Less Humans in Transformers. More individual robot personalities. I don't know how they can screw up so many times.

 

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Update: May 27, 2015

TRANSFORMERS Origin Movie Set on Cybertron in the Works

Ant-Man Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have joined the Paramount Transformers writer's room, where they will become part of the brain trust tasked with coming up with prequel and spinoff ideas to expand the studios Transformers film franchise.

According to Deadline, one of the earliest ideas coming out of the room is Transformers One, a prequel origin story that would be set on the Autobot and Decepticon's home world of Cybertron. The idea reportedly originated with licensor Hasbro, and could end up being an animated film rather than live action. For their part, Barrer and Ferrari joined the Transformers writing room expecting to work on a live action film.

Paramount's Transformers braintrust is headed by Akiva Goldsman, and includes creators like The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman, Iron Man writers Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim 2's Zak Penn, and Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost's Jeff Pinkner. Their current mission is to have a new Transformers sequel ready for begin production by the time director Michael Bay completes his current slate of unrelated projects.

Transformers Origin Spinoff Movie Set On Cybertron Reportedly In The Works

 

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Update: May 28, 2015

First TRANSFORMERS Spinoff Movie Possibly Featuring Bumblebee

Hasbro CEO BrianGoldner took part in a presentation at the Global Consumer Conference 2015 and discussed Hasbro and Paramount's upcoming Transformers Cinematic Universe.

"Last year was Transformers 4. It was quite a good success for us last year" Brian Goldner said (via TFW2005). "We've begun to work with writers and we are now developing the Transformers [Cinematic] Universe beyond the first four movies."

It was reported that one of the spinoff films could be a prequel set on the Autobot and Decepticon’s home world of Cybertron. But, what other spinoffs could we expect from the Transformers Cinematic Universe?

"Many of you know Bumblebee; the yellow Camaro… formally known as a yellow VW Bug and he is a beloved character by kids all over the world," Goldner explained. "We could see stories told around Bumblebee and other characters. We are in a process of building the brand equity around the Comic Book Business, our TV Business, our Digital Gaming Business and adding to that our new movie business of Transformers".

Bumblebee Spinoff Movie To Be A Part Of Transformers Cinematic Universe

 

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First TRANSFORMERS Spinoff Possibly Featuring Bumblebee

Hasbro CEO BrianGoldner took part in a presentation at the Global Consumer Conference 2015 and discussed Hasbro and Paramount's upcoming Transformers Cinematic Universe. "Last year was Transformers 4. It was quite a good success for us last year" Brian Goldner said (via TFW2005). "We've begun to work with writers and we are now developing the Transformers [Cinematic] Universe beyond the first four movies."

It was reported that one of the spinoff films could be a prequel set on the Autobot and Decepticon

 

[Spoken]

Camero wasn't it?

 

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Update: June 2, 2015

TRANSFORMERS Writers Room Adds Two Females to Its Roster

Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay have added the first two female screenwriters to the brain trust of writers who'll hatch Transformers sequels, prequels and spinoffs under the supervision of Akiva Goldsman. Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer have both joined the group that will help craft ideas to expand the universe of the Hasbro toy line, then go off and write them.

Hodson most recently got hired to write a new version of The Fugitive for Warner Bros and producer Arnold Kopelson. She previously scripted the spec The Eden Project and her script Shut In just wrapped with Naomi Watts starring The scribe also scripted Unforgettable for Warner Bros and is developing a pilot for FX. She has hit the Black List with her scripts three different times.

Beer writes in multiple genres, but most frequently comedy and fantasy drama. She has several features set up around town, including a live-action family adventure story at Disney called Dig. She did work on Short Circuit for The Weinstein Company and her rated-R genre-bending comedy How To Nail An Alien is being developed at Atlas, and her script Electric is also with Whitaker. She's currently working on a re-imagined The Wizard Of Oz for Warner Bros. with Vertigo.

Transformers Writers Room: Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer Join Brain Trust

 

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Update: June 4, 2015

Ever-Expanding TRANSFORMERS Writers Room Adds Two More

Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet have been set to join the group of writers who, starting Monday, will gather in an office on the Paramount lot to hatch the next iterations of the billion-dollar Transformers franchise.

Nolan is best known for Black Hawk Down and Fox recently acquired his spec adaptation of the Robert Littell Cold War novel Defection, this after Nolan turned his novel The Company into a limited TNT series.

Robertson-Dworet, who co-wrote the Black List script Hibernation, is writing a space thriller for Roland Emmerich that will be directed by his longtime DP Anna Foerster. She is also teamed with Will Frank on a sci-fi action thriller for Jerry Bruckheimer and a psychological thriller for Bad Robot that’s produced by The Imitation Game‘s Ido Ostrowsky and Nora Grossman.

Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet Added to Writer's Room for Transformers Cinematic Universe

 

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Update: June 4, 2015

Akiva Goldsman Explains TRANSFORMERS Writers Room and How It Works

Akiva Goldsman, the Transformers writer's room overseer, said the intention was to replicate the great writers rooms used in hatching TV shows.

“There is such reciprocity between TV and movies now, that we’re borrowing this from TV,” Goldsman said. “I got a taste of this from JJ Abrams when I came in to write an episode of Fringe, and then Jeff Pinkner let me hang around for four years like the drunk uncle. The whole process of the story room was really delightful, and we are seeing it more in movies as this moves toward serialized storytelling."

"There are good rooms around town, including the Monsters Room at Universal, the Star Wars room, and of course, at Marvel," he said. "We’re trying to beg, borrow and steal from the best of them, and gathered a group of folks interested in developing and broadening this franchise. There is a central corridor of movies that has been proceeding quite well, but our challenge will be to answer, where do we go from here?”

When they start Monday, Goldsman and the writers will immerse themselves in everything that has been crafted by Hasbro to create what Goldsman said is a deep mythology.

“We’ve got a work space that is beautifully production designed to be immersive with a strong sense of the franchise history,” he said. “We will look at the toys, the TV shows, the merchandise, everything that has been generated by Hasbro, from popular to forgotten iterations, and establish a mythological time line. It has been designed with a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches and writers and artists. After that super saturation, the writers will figure out not one, but numerous films that will extend the universe.”

All of the writers will come away with this exercise with a movie treatment to write, including Goldsman. Those writers will then have first crack at writing the scripts for treatment that meet the approval of Paramount, Bay, Spielberg, Hasbro and the producers.

“If one of the writers discovers an affinity for Beast Wars, they can drive forward on treatments that will have been fleshed out by the whole room,” Goldsman said.

Akiva Goldsman Explains ‘Transformers’ Writers Room As Paramount Adds Scribe Pair

 

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Ever-Expanding TRANSFORMERS Writers Room Adds Two More

Ken Nolan and Geneva Robertson-Dworet have been set to join the group of writers who, starting Monday, will gather in an office on the Paramount lot to hatch the next iterations of the billion-dollar Transformers franchise.

Those scribes join Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer, Ant-Man scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, the recent additions, and original members Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man scribes Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim 2's Zak Penn and Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost

 

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Update: September 7, 2015

TRANSFORMERS 5 and an Animated Movie Are the Results of the Writers Room Experiment

It's pencils down for the Transformers Writers Room; the experiment has concluded and the early results are in. Akiva Goldsman has walked away with a concrete blueprint to write a Transformers sequel for Mark Wahlberg to star in for Michael Bay to direct, with production starting in June.

Ant-Man scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari will head off and write an animated feature, an origin story that focuses on Cybertron, the planet from which the good and bad Transformer robots hail.

As for the rest of the writers who spent more than two weeks on a soundstage on the Paramount lot? Well, they didn't set a bunch of other movies, but a few could come up down the line.

All of them hatched ideas together and collaborated to flesh out the universe of the Hasbro toy line to come up with possible spinoffs, sequels and prequels that they then peeled off and generated treatments. Goldsman supervised the whole thing, and everybody pitched to Steven Spielberg, Bay, Paramount, Hasbro's Brian Goldner and producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian and Don Murphy.

Perhaps the most important thing that creating a proper Bible of places they could go is that they will plant seeds from the best ideas into the Transformers sequel that Goldsman is writing - the one that is expected to be the last that Bay directs himself. They've got enough ideas already to do one more Transformers film even if Bay decides not to direct it, but they'll have created opportunities for spinoffs to keep moving on Paramount's biggest franchise not named Mission: Impossible.

Akiva Goldsman Scripting 'Transformers 5' Animated Film By 'Ant-Man' Scribes

 

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Update: December 14, 2015

Mark Wahlberg Confirms He's Returning for TRANSFORMERS 5

Almost one year ago, actor Mark Wahlberg was pretty sure that he would return for a Transformers 5, and though some progress has been made on the next entry in the franchise, Wahlberg hasn’t spoken about returning again, until now. In an interview with CinePop, Wahlberg confirmed once again that he’ll be back for the film.

In the fourth film, Age of Extinction, Wahlberg played Cade Yeager, a Texas inventor and mechanic who was also very protective of his daughter, Nicola Peltz’s Tessa Yeager. Transformers: Age of Extinction grossed over $1.1 billion at the global box office, bringing all four films combined to a total gross over $3.7 billion.

Transformers 5 is set to be written by Iron Man scribes Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down). Director Michael Bay hasn’t not been officially confirmed to return, though Bay remains in contention to return to the helm of the franchise.

Mark Wahlberg Confirms He Will Reprise His Role as Cade Yeager in Michael Bay's Transformers 5

 

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Update: January 4, 2016

Michael Bay Confirms He is Returning as TRANSFORMERS 5 Director

Back in September of last year, Deadline had reported that Michael Bay might step back in the director's chair for the fifth installment of the Transformers movie franchise.

Talking to Rolling Stone about the his new movie, 13 Hours, which centers around the Bengazi attacks, Bay lists the plethora of projects he's juggling, but does indeed confirm he'll direct the next Transformers.

"I'm doing Transformers ... 5, is it?" Bay said, seemingly losing count at where the Transformers movies are now. "I've taken on a lot of work."

Bay probably wants to create a link to the new Transformers universe that Paramount is brewing. He may not be a key player in the writer’s room, but at least he’ll get to build the bridge from his previous movies to whatever prequels, animated spinoffs, and sequels Paramount wants to create.

Michael Bay Confirms He Will Be Directing Transformers 5 for Paramount Pictures

 

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Update: February 12, 2016

Paramount Announces Annual Release Dates for TRANSFORMERS 5, 6 and 7

Paramount has dated its next three Transformers sequels, and they will come in quick succession beginning in 2017. Transformers 5 will open on June 23, 2017, while Transformers 6 will come a year later on June 8, 2018. And Transformers 7 is slotted for June 28, 2019.

Transformers 5 will open up against Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman. Transformers 6 is set to duke it out with Warners’ Godzilla 2. June 28, 2019, is currently unclaimed, so Transformers 7 has the summer slot all to itself at the moment (though Disney will release The Incredibles 2 the week before).

Michael Bay, who directed the first four Transformers films, has said that he will direct Transformers 5, but that it will be his last.

There are some eight writers who have worked on drafts forTransformers 5, with Akiva Goldsman taking a leadership role in the script development. Mark Wahlberg -- who starred in the fourth installment, Transformers: Age of Extinction -- is expected to return for the franchise's fifth chapter.

Paramount Dates Next Three 'Transformers' Movies; Michael Bay to Direct 'Transformers 5'