Paramount has released two live-action G.I. In October, the studio confirmed that the team had managed to plot out the next 10 years of the series, from next year’s Transformers 5 through the planned Transformers 8. It seemed to be a successful strategy, as Paramount now has plans for at least five new Transformers sequels.
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Deadline reports that Academy Award winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A attractive Mind, Winter’s Tale, Batman and Robin) will have lot more on his plate soon. This shift, Deadline writes, is “cemented by Paramount, Hasbro, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Don Murphy”. It makes sense, as the studio has been struggling to figure out where to take the franchise for a while now. Rise of the Cobra” and 2009’s “G.I. Joe franchise and Goldsman is involved in that instead. Of all these ideas to crack, “Micronauts” might prove the most daunting.
But G.I. Joe and Micronauts? Now Goldsman will also be in charge of that room, with other writers still to be announced. Moreover, attempts to revive Micronauts in the early aughts largely failed.
So where does all this leave Transformers? Reportedly Goldsman will still have a supervisory role over the Transformers movie scripts, but will not be directly contributing to them himself.
These new responsibilities mean that he has to hand off actually writing Transformers 5, with Paramount looking to bring in Iron Man co-writers (and Transformers room veterans) Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to script it alongside Black Hawk Down’s Ken Nolan.
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When it comes to toy-based film franchises, this is just the beginning.
