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Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, who spent half a year doing the production rewriting on Marvel’s Ant-Man, have become the latest to join the Writer’s Room that Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay have organized to hatch sequels, prequels and spinoffs on their billion dollar Transformers franchise. I’m hearing that one of the ideas in the works has a working title of Transformers One, and that it is more or less an origins story that takes place on Cybertron, the planet where the good guy and bad guy robots hail from. Those talks originated with rights holder Hasbro. I’d also heard that this might be an animated feature, but that Barrer & Ferrari are also going to the writer’s room with the expectation they’ll write a live action Transformers movie, as well. Paramount insiders said that they haven’t gotten that far on the specific projects, but I am told this is the plan. A Cybertron movie sounds like fertile ground for a feature, to me.

http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-ant-man-andrew-barrer-gabriel-ferrari-cybertron-1201433402/

 

[Gambit 1138]

I'm all for a Transformers shared universe but they need to get Michael Bay away from the franchise which sadly isn't going to happen.

 

[Dragonborn]

Removing the humans would be awesome

 

[LycanXIII]

War and Fall of Cybertron movies?

 

[J10]

A Transformers movie about the Transformers. What a novel idea.

 

[Shahadan]

No humans seems like an expensive idea.

 

[guek]

A Transformers movie on Cybertron?

Without humans?

As others have said though, Bay is still a deal breaker

 

[Slayven]

If they do a shared universe they should make M.A.S.K's origin is they reverse engineered transforming tech from the corpse of transformers.

 

[ZeroGravity]

Whether people like to admit it or not, grounding the franchise with a focus on human characters is what sold the original movie. It would have been a huge flop otherwise.

I'm all for them taking it out in different directions now.

 

[Salsa]

great

make just EVERYTHING some shifty exploding metal

2 and a half hours of not knowing what's up and what's down

 

[J10]

If they do a shared universe they should make M.A.S.K's origin is they reverse engineered transforming tech from the corpse of transformers.

Nah. A shared universe should feature the GI Joes and He-Man and Thundercats. Or Transformers Vs. Voltron.

 

[kewlmyc]

That movie sounds expensive as fuck.

 

[Slayven]

great

make just EVERYTHING some shifty exploding metal

2 and a half hours of not knowing what's up and what's down

ANd Wheelie

Nah. A shared universe should feature the GI Joes and He-Man and Thundercats. Or Transformers Vs. Voltron.

It's all Hasbro, they has a deeper library than Marvel or DC

 

[Shahadan]

Time travelling Shia LeBeouf!

 

[dcelw540]

I'm all for a Transformers shared universe but they need to get Michael Bay away from the franchise which sadly isn't going to happen.

While I understand the mentally, I will miss Michael Bay for the action. He may be shit at story, characters and humour one thing I will always praise is his action scenes. My god they are amazing.

 

[jackdoe]

That movie sounds expensive as fuck.

Without humans, it's essentially a realistic CG animated film and may bomb just like Beowulf and Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.

 

[cirrhosis]

They should have James Roberts write the screenplay instead. Helm it with a competent director and this could actually be good.


but then nobody would watch it

 

[BlueTsunami]

And no robot lips

 

[Savitar]

Sounds too good to be true.

Wonder if we'll get some doopy aliens as comedy to make up for the humans.

 

[CitizenVectron]

I can already see it now, every single building has useless gears and pistons and such moving all the time.

Just a giant orgy of machine parts all over the screen.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

That movie sounds expensive as fuck.

Michael Bay practically gets blank checks to do whatever he wants so the cost shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Slayven]

Michael Bay practically gets blank checks to do whatever he wants so the cost shouldn't be a problem.

Throw in a scene in China, boom, Mother Fuck Money!!!

 

[kurahador]

Michael Bay practically gets blank checks to do whatever he wants so the cost shouldn't be a problem.

And he will still managed to include humans and product placements in the movie, just watch.

 

[G-Fex]

These movies destined to always be garbage.

They don't got the balls to do it sans humans

 

[Renegade Yeti]

Nope not falling for it this time , Michael bay pulls this shit Everytime with promises of how how different it will be drawing everybody in with cool trailers/promos, age of extinction made me feel like my brain was going to hemorrhage

 

[Fudgepuppy]

Performance capture on partial sets, Andy Serkis as Megatron, directed by Frank Darabont/Darren Aronofsky/George Miller or whatever.

Boom, I'm waiting for my check.

 

[Circinus]

I watched the first part of Transformers: Age of Extinction recently. Wasn't that bad actually. Was pretty okay for a dumb popcorn flick.

Definitely not the first choice as a film to watch in theaters though.

 

[Firelord Chargrilled]

If there are no humans it will flop

Most moviegoers associate no humans to cartoon/animation

 

[BobLoblaw]

Throw in a scene in China, boom, Mother Fuck Money!!!

This is the answer.

 

[Maximus.]

Jeez I don't think I want to see this in its current incarnation. How the fuck will we fell apart anything with the character and world design?

 

[ffejeromdiks]

I'd love to see it be a prequel, Especially if it focuses on Optimus before he became a Prime, reluctant hero stories always hook me.

Could simultaneously focus on Megatron's early days as a slave/gladiator/revolutionary.

 

[jelly]

I wish they would just reboot it and design the transformers better, get rid of Michael Bay for someone who can do engaging action.

 

[Cypher]

How is it that fucking hard to form a Hasbro Cinematic Universe that combines Transformers and G.I. Joe!?

 

[WillyFive]

So it will be basically an animated movie.

 

[gatti-man]

Without humans, it's essentially a realistic CG animated film and may bomb just like Beowulf and Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.

Avatar? Yes there are humans but a large majority is cgi.

 

[NightShift]

So... does that make it a cartoon movie?

I suppose they have the $$$ for it.

 

[NotLiquid]

I was under the impression that Wahlberg was already signed for the fifth installment.

Which would be kinda odd regardless since Age of Extinction ends on a weird note to allow Earth to hold significance for followups.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

If they do a shared universe they should make M.A.S.K's origin is they reverse engineered transforming tech from the corpse of transformers.

M.A.S.K..lol. Damn, man..

 

[CadetMahoney]

so everything green screen, like all pure green.

 

[Currygan]

just imagine Bay's Transformers fighting and strolling around Cybertron, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart from the surroundings

 

[mreddie]

Doubt it, Marky Mark is already locked for another one and I doubt Paramount is gonna throw him to the wayside.

 

[BKatastrophe]

Removing the humans would be awesome

This is a start, but it won't solve the problem those movies have. AoE had some of the most boring action sequences I've seen in a film. Plus, the continuity of the series has been fucked since RotF.

 

[explodet]

I demand that every 10 minutes a random cast member is eaten by a Sharkticon.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

You all should know by now Paramount is only interested in making their IP's look cool and be as easy to digest as junk food.

 

[Rodney McKay]

The series as a whole has been pretty bleh for me, but if someday we get a live action/big budget CG version of the animated movie where Unicron is attacking earth, then the franchise might not have been a total waste.

 

[Toothless]

This isn't Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, OR Paul Rudd.

Pass.

 

[Elwood Blues]

If there aren't any humans how will Michael Bay include his classic dick and/or shit and/or gay jokes?

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

I like the idea of no humans, but really, is it much of a change. Sure, a lot of the idiot humans will be gone, but what about the idiot Autobots(Skids/Mudflap and potentially others like them)? If anything, the character writing and the sophomoric humor were two of the big gripes I had with the franchise. Majority of the characters were unlikable and no effort was ever really made to make you give a damn about them. The humor revolved around stupid shit, penis/scrotum/poopoo/peepee jokes. I know people say, "But hey, it's just a stupid movie based on a toy line!", like that's an excuse. The cartoons(and hell, the cartoon movie) managed to write the characters(both Transformers AND humans) far better than any of the live action movies did and that was just a "cartoon based on a toyline". Y'know, you can actually get writers that give a damn about crafting an engaging story and developing interesting characters, even the source material are toys. To me, there is no excuse at all and there is no justification in crap writing.

Not to mention, this is Michael Bay. You're going to have to convince me HARD that he won't worm so sort of human force, mainly the US military, into the movie.

 

[G-Fex]

I like the idea of no humans, but really, is it much of a change. Sure, a lot of the idiot humans will be gone, but what about the idiot Autobots(Skids/Mudflap and potentially others like them)? If anything, the character writing and the sophomoric humor were two of the big gripes I had with the franchise. Majority of the characters were unlikable and no effort was ever really made to make you give a damn about them. The humor revolved around stupid shit, penis/scrotum/poopoo/peepee jokes. I know people say, "But hey, it's just a stupid movie based on a toy line!", like that's an excuse. The cartoons(and hell, the cartoon movie) managed to write the characters(both Transformers AND humans) far better than any of the live action movies did.

Not to mention, this is Michael Bay. You're going to have to convince me HARD that he won't worm so sort of human force, mainly the US military, into the movie.

It's all very tainted, a very tainted franchise.

No one seems to recall the transformers themselves are awful stupid characters in these movies.

 

[slightconfuse]

Humans are the worst part so good