Just last week we reported on the news that Paramount and Akiva Goldsman had gathered together an impressive roster of writers for its so-called Transformers Cinematic Universe writers room, including The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman and The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Zak Penn, with a plan to create sequels and spinoffs to its big franchise.
Now we’re hearing more word from of what exactly those movies might be and it reportedly includes plans for a Cybertron-set origin story possible entitled Transformers One, hiring scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari to join their big writing team. In case you don’t know and/or care, Cybertron is the planet from which both the good and bad robots hail. We’ve seen glimpses of it throughout the series.
It’s not entirely clear if Barrer and Ferrari – who recently finished extensive rewrites on Marvel’s Ant-Man – are to directly work on that origin movie or are just the next two to join the team but either way it’s interesting to hear of the studio biting the bullet and going down the (presumably and logically) robots-only movie route. There’s rumours the Transformers One movie might be animated (highly doubtful, if you ask me) but the newly appointed writers are exepected to be in the mix to write a live action movie. It’s all very cloudy at the moment, I’m afraid.
What we do appear to know now, however, is that Bay is looking to director another one of the Transformers movie, whether it be Transformers 5, Transformers One or another unnamed sequel/spinoff. The plan is to have a project ready for him to move ahead with once he’s finished with his Benghazi drama 13 Hours, starring John Krasinski and Toby Stephens.
The idea of more incomprehensible robots hitting each other hardly seems like an exciting one – isn’t 4 movies enough?! – but I admit I’m intrigued to see if they can freshen up the formula with a Cybertron story.
Barrer and Ferrari join the writers team that, on top of Kirkman and Penn, also includes Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Punisher: War Zone) and Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, TV’s Lost & Fringe).
Source: Deadline