This is the first official confirmation has arrived following the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Following a tease during the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Paramount has officially confirmed at CinemaCon 2024 that a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie will be released in theaters in 2025 or 2026.
While we didn't learn anything else about the movie, it was confirmed that Steven Spielberg will be an executive producer on the project and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, and Don Murphy will serve as producers.
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For those unaware, the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts saw Noah being interviewed for a security job by a mysterious agent played by Michael Kelly who hands him a business card with the G.I. Joe logo on it. Because of Noah's experience, he has actually been recruited to that top-secret military organization that many of us loved growing up.
This crossover has been teased for many years, with Bonaventura calling it a "possibility" back as early as 2014. Having Transformers and G.I. Joe together is a big deal as it has never happened before in live-action or even in animated form. There were crossovers in the comics beginning with 1986's G.I. Joe and the Transformers, but that was it!
This movie is very likely to be the next entry in the Transformers franchise following Rise of the Beasts, a film we said in our review "proves that the Transformers franchise is accelerating in the right direction, delivering solid Autobots action and a solid voice cast behind the infamous robots in disguise."
The animated film Transformers One also got a behind-closed-doors first look at Paramount's CinemaCon presentation, and it showed a young Optimus Prime and Megatron as lowly worker bots who can't even transform. To earn their ability to transform, they must go on a journey to the surface world.
The first movie, chronologically, is 2018's prequel Bumblebee, starring Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie, a teen reeling from the death of her father, who discovers an autobot, Bumblebee, hiding on Earth. Even though the film was eventually declared as a reboot of the franchise, it still takes place before everything else, back in 1987, giving fans actual Transformers in the decade these giant robots first made their appearance.
Billed as a sequel/follow up to Bumblebee (again, if we're treating this all as a rebooted timeline), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is said to take place in 1994 and involve a pair of archaeologists from Brooklyn come into an ancient conflict through an adventure that ties in with three factions of Transformers: the Maximals, the Predacons and the Terrorcons. Rise of the Beasts will be the first Transformers live-action movie to be inspired by the Beast Wars arc. Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback are set to star, with Peter Cullen voicing Optimus Prime and Ron Perlman voicing Optimus Primal.
The massive movie that started it all, Michael Bay's Transformers brought the Autobots vs. Decepticons war to Earth in a wicked way, putting Shia LaBeouf's Sam, Megan Fox's Mikaela, and the U.S. Armed Forces in the middle of an ancient galactic conflict that traces all the way back to home plant Cybertron. For the first time, Transformers fans got to see favorites Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz, Megatron, Starscream, and more interact with human stars and battle through real explosions.
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The franchise's first sequel, Revenge of the Fallen, brought back Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, and Tyrese Gibson while introducing Tony Todd as The Fallen: Megatron's master and founder of the Decepticons. As the Autobots work with a secret military organization, and try to make a home for themselves on Earth, The Fallen returns to wreak havoc, calling on the Constructicons to combine and form gigantic foe Devastator.
Megan Fox was out and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was in, as Sam's new girlfriend, in Michael Bay's third Transformers flick, Dark of the Moon, which operated under the premise that America's space program was developed to investigate a crash on the moon -- the site of a downed spacecraft, the Ark, from Cybertron. A new evil plot involving Decepticons and the previous Autobot leader, Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy), is hatched and it's once again up to Optimus Prime and his team to save the day and stop Cybertron itself from being wormhole'd into our own solar system.
Also got a glimpse of Bumblebee and Megatron going up to the surface world via a supply train and Elita working in search of the Matrix of Leadership.
Transformers One will be released on September 14, 2024, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime/Orion Pax, Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron/D-16, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee/B-127, Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.