Untitled Transformers Film (D: Angel Manuel Soto)
03-26-21 | 03:53 PM
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Untitled Transformers Film (D: Angel Manuel Soto)
Get ready for more Transformers.
Paramount Pictures has made a blind script commitment to develop a new feature based on the popular Hasbro brand.
Marco Ramirez, the showrunner of Netflix’s Marvel show The Defenders, is set to write the script while Angel Manuel Soto, who directed last year’s teen drama, Charm City Kings, is attached to direct.
Logline details are being kept squared away deep in the circuits of Cybertron, but it is known that the project is being developed apart from the universe of the main line of Transformers films that Paramount has been making since 2007. The studio, along with eOne, is now in active duty on a seventh Transformers project, being directed by Creed II helmer Stephen Caple Jr. The line includes five Michael Bay-directed movies plus the Bumblebee spin-off directed by Travis Knight.
The project is in early development and it is unclear who will produce. It is expected that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, and Tom DeSanto, who have acted as producers on all the film projects, will be involved.
Paramount had no comment.
The new standalone shows Paramount’s intent to develop a range of Transformers projects as it seeks to dig deeper into the IP’s well as the new age of movie watching includes not just a big-screen outing every two or three years but higher output and across more deliver channels, including its newly rebooted streaming service, Paramount+.
The project also shows Paramount is seeking diverse voices to make the brand more resonant with modern audiences.
Ramirez worked on shows such as FX’s Sons of Anarchy and Netflix’s Daredevil, the latter which allowed him to leapfrog to co-showrunner and co-creator status of Defenders, which acted as a culmination of sorts for the Marvel shows that included Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil. He is repped by UTA.
Soto’s Charm City premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was released on HBO Max in October. The well-regarded drama has been a door-opener for the filmmaker, who recently booked the coveted gig of directing Blue Beetle for Warner Bros. and DC. He is repped by CAA and Redefine Entertainment.
Paramount Pictures has made a blind script commitment to develop a new feature based on the popular Hasbro brand.
Marco Ramirez, the showrunner of Netflix’s Marvel show The Defenders, is set to write the script while Angel Manuel Soto, who directed last year’s teen drama, Charm City Kings, is attached to direct.
Logline details are being kept squared away deep in the circuits of Cybertron, but it is known that the project is being developed apart from the universe of the main line of Transformers films that Paramount has been making since 2007. The studio, along with eOne, is now in active duty on a seventh Transformers project, being directed by Creed II helmer Stephen Caple Jr. The line includes five Michael Bay-directed movies plus the Bumblebee spin-off directed by Travis Knight.
The project is in early development and it is unclear who will produce. It is expected that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, and Tom DeSanto, who have acted as producers on all the film projects, will be involved.
Paramount had no comment.
The new standalone shows Paramount’s intent to develop a range of Transformers projects as it seeks to dig deeper into the IP’s well as the new age of movie watching includes not just a big-screen outing every two or three years but higher output and across more deliver channels, including its newly rebooted streaming service, Paramount+.
The project also shows Paramount is seeking diverse voices to make the brand more resonant with modern audiences.
Ramirez worked on shows such as FX’s Sons of Anarchy and Netflix’s Daredevil, the latter which allowed him to leapfrog to co-showrunner and co-creator status of Defenders, which acted as a culmination of sorts for the Marvel shows that included Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil. He is repped by UTA.
Soto’s Charm City premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was released on HBO Max in October. The well-regarded drama has been a door-opener for the filmmaker, who recently booked the coveted gig of directing Blue Beetle for Warner Bros. and DC. He is repped by CAA and Redefine Entertainment.
03-26-21 | 04:39 PM
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Re: Untitled Transformers Film (D: Angel Manuel Soto)
Bumblebee might be my favorite film in the entire franchise. The other Michael Bay films are really not that great. The first film from 2007 was about the only one I sort of liked. Curious what this will be, but in general I’m not the biggest Transformers fan.
03-29-21 | 06:53 PM
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I’ve been a Michael Bay defender on here over the years but it’s time the series moves on without him. Bay’s Transformers movies were getting a bit tenuous. I enjoyed the first one and the third one gets really fun about halfway through but the others are all pretty terrible.
I googled this Soto guy and he hasn’t made a single thing that I’ve heard of. Kind of ballsy to give him a big budget Transformers movie based on his skimpy filmography but, hey, it worked for Peter Jackson.
I googled this Soto guy and he hasn’t made a single thing that I’ve heard of. Kind of ballsy to give him a big budget Transformers movie based on his skimpy filmography but, hey, it worked for Peter Jackson.
03-29-21 | 07:06 PM
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I’ve been a Michael Bay defender on here over the years but it’s time the series moves on without him. Bay’s Transformers movies were getting a bit tenuous. I enjoyed the first one and the third one gets really fun about halfway through but the others are all pretty terrible.
I googled this Soto guy and he hasn’t made a single thing that I’ve heard of. Kind of ballsy to give him a big budget Transformers movie based on his skimpy filmography but, hey, it worked for Peter Jackson.
I googled this Soto guy and he hasn’t made a single thing that I’ve heard of. Kind of ballsy to give him a big budget Transformers movie based on his skimpy filmography but, hey, it worked for Peter Jackson.
Almost every Marvel director grew immensely bc of the MCU.
Really no surprise with Soto. It could work, it could not, but so far, I think every small, one movie or so director that made a Marvel movie or couple became much bigger and is still hereafter. Favreau (who lives at Disney studios now), Waititi, Peyton Reed, Scott Derrickson, Sam Raimi, Joss Whedon, the Russo Bros., etc.
And, let’s face it, Bay has really only made 1 decent Transformers movie in my opinion, the first. He got the bloated head like Snyder and both went mad with power and really perpetuated franchises with not so good and even terrible movies, but of course, with fan base, made bank and just enough to keep franchises limping along with bad stories and unimaginative everything.
Snyder has made majority. Really only one I loved and swayed from Snyder, thankfully was Wonder Woman. Jenkins brought freshness and an origin story that was compelling in character, action, story. Why she went bonkers on 1984 only she knows. But James Wan with Aquaman, Sandberg with Shazam!, we need these fresh directors and get away, far away from Snyder and his reign of less than mediocrity in this superhero genre.
I’ve yet to see beyond Transformers 2. Do want to see Bumblebee that thankfully wasn’t directed by Bay.
Last edited by OldBoy; 03-29-21 at 07:24 PM.
03-29-21 | 07:24 PM
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^ Very true, especially the Russo Brothers. Directing a few TV shows and You, Me, and Dupree wouldn’t instill a lot of confidence to direct a big budget movie.
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