Power moves are being made between Paramount and Hasbro, when it comes to the toy company’s biggest franchises. Not only are we seeing a reinvigorated GI Joe franchise, led by this October’s Snake Eyes movie and a newly-announced followup, but Transformers is on the rise again after the success of Bumblebee. And now we know when the Robots In Disguise will be seen next on the big screen.
Deadline reports that a June 24th 2022 date has been set for a new live-action Transformers movie. This is completely separate from the animated Cybertron prequel that will have Toy Story 4‘s Josh Cooley directing. The thing is, we have no idea what movie is set for this date, because Paramount has a couple of Transformers movies in the works.
One is the reported Beast Wars flick from writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man). The other is written by Joby Harold (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) and is set in the same rebooted universe from 2018’s Bumblebee movie. It could be either one of these films, or perhaps something else we don’t know about yet.
Suffice it to say, this is Paramount’s way of moving far beyond the Michael Bay era, which saw them tremendous box office success but waned down the stretch.
