The news is well and truly out there at the moment, but we are giving you a heads-up anyway. This news post (and its associated thread) contains spoilers from the upcoming movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (ROTB).
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who oversees Transformers and G.I. Joe live-action movies at Paramount Pictures, gives a detailed explanation of the prospect of Transformers X G.I. Joe.
According to the producer, who gave an interview to Geek Culture, the direction of Transformers X G.I. Joe was pitched to him by director Steven Capel Jr. who also directed ROTB.
“[Steven] very early on brought-up G.I. Joe. My reaction was ‘We thought about it a lot. I’m very open. How do you think it works?’ and he wasn’t sure at that time. So what happened was as we were developing the script and making it, [we] included his world, [his] point of view, how he looked at the Beasts for instance; because he grew up with them. He had a very specific thing. So, what happened was we kept coming back to G.I. Joe. Why would they know first of all? Because part of what we’ve tried to do in every Transformers [movie] is no one’s supposed to know they were here, other than the fourth or fifth one where they do know. So, we went back to that where nobody’s supposed to know this happened. So why would any organization know? And actually what was cool about that is we suddenly went ‘Well, because they are G.I. Joe, they would know.’ Which isn’t entirely logical, but it’s emotionally logical that this top-secret thing would somehow know.”
Additionally, Geek Culture is also giving a detailed breakdown of the scene. You can check out all the juicy bits, after the jump.
From Geek Culture:
Rumor: Transformers x G.I. Joe Live Action Movie In Development?
Big, if true.
Maybe not from an artistic aspirations standpoint, but certainly from a desperate attempt to regain relevancy standpoint. Especially if Rise of the Beasts ultimately ends up exceeding its low box office expectations.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...re_than_meets/
Also, if Paramount could add Michael Keaton in the dual role of both General Hawk and Batman, they might really be onto something.
I've never liked Transformers mixed with GIJoe. No thanks.
Not my ideal version of GI Joe by a long shot, but I will take it if it helps get Joe back into a major media project.
Are they going to recast? There's probably a line in The Rock's contract that stipulates no good guy can be bigger than him and Optimus Prime is going to look funny as a Tonka truck.
Would prefer they went animated with this, but...no one called for my opinion.
and given this will be a Di Bonaventura Production I'm not particularly optimistic that it will be any good.
Mini poll within a thread:
If you could not achieve both and had to choose - would you rather a GI Joe-related movie be good (whatever your definition of that may be) or would you rather it generate cultural interest and mass-market appeal for the brand?
That's one way to boost GI Joe's box office presence: tie it in to an actually successful film franchise.
Hope it doesn't accidentally sink Transformers.
However, both are achievable, I think. And I may go so far as to say the biggest issue with the Tatum-verse is the attempt to create the latter resulted in no consideration of the former.
The MCU has established that you can both respect your core audience (in this case, pre-existing Joe fans, whether its the cartoons, comics, or toys themselves) and appeal to "outsiders" if you prioritize quality and thoughtfulness. So, I don't think you can get the mass appeal without it being "good".
This probably should have been the original Transformers live action. All those military guys could have been Joes.
Seems like a way for Hasbro to try and boost GI Joe sales by tying it to Transformers ala the recent O-Rings. Makes me wonder if Joe isn't doing as well as they hoped the lines would, especially with them torching two of the four lines in 3 years.
How would a toy line even work? 2" Joes to go with 6" Transformers? 6" both scales and they'd just never really interact in a display?
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