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New Live-Action ‘Transformers’ Film Set for June 2022

Paramount Pictures has dated a brand new, untitled live-action “Transformers” movie to be launched in theaters on June 24, 2022, TheWrap has confirmed.

As Paramount and Hasbro press ahead to revamp the franchise, two new “Transformers” tasks are being developed concurrently, with Joby Harold (“Army of the Dead”) and James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac”) every penning a script. Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps and no administrators are presently connected to both.

Meanwhile, Josh Cooley, winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film for “Toy Story 4,” will direct an untitled animated “Transformers” prequel with a script written by “Ant-Man and the Wasp” scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Hasbro’s leisure studio, eOne, will develop and produce the movie together with Paramount Animation.

For years, “Transformers” was the last word critic-proof franchise. Reviews for movies like “Revenge of the Fallen” and “Dark of the Moon” had been overwhelmingly unfavorable, however followers and households confirmed up in droves each summer season that considered one of these movies got here out, to the tune of over $1 billion every.

“Transformers” peaked in 2011 with its third installment, “Dark of the Moon,” with $1.12 billion, a yr through which Paramount led all studios with $1.95 billion grossed domestically with 19.2 % market share.

Deadline first reported the information.

All 6 ‘Transformers’ Movies Ranked, Worst to Best, Including ‘Bumblebee’

“Transformers” might be the weirdest and craziest main film franchise — an admirable factor when you’re an aficionado of action-heavy style trash like I’m. “Bumblebee” represents a departure from the Michael Bay motion pictures, in that it is usually calmer and extra, nicely, regular. So how does the prequel stack up in opposition to the previous decade of Bay’s robotic insanity?
6. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009)
Everything about this one is simply … an excessive amount of. And the Arcee (RC) Twins, a.okay.a. the Racial Caricature Bots, are merely inexcusable.
5. “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (2014)
Michael Bay’s libertarian screed is amusing sufficient, however form of frustratingly simple. We want when these motion pictures wallow in paranoid authorities conspiracy theories.
4. “Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017)
Easily probably the most incomprehensible of the “Transformers” motion pictures, but additionally the funniest — thanks in no small half to Anthony Hopkins having absolutely the time of his life. It might also be probably the most visually placing of all of Michael Bay’s motion pictures.
3. “Transformers” (2007)
By the requirements of this franchise, the primary film was the closest to being a “normal” movie. It’s fantastic, however not fairly extreme sufficient.
2. “Bumblebee” (2018)
It’s extra chill, extra coherent and usually extra sane than the opposite ones. And, sure, it is pleasant. Hailee Steinfeld is a miracle for the way in which she’s capable of conjure up all these feelings appearing in opposition to a CGI robotic.
1. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (2011)
The third film, nonetheless, is strictly extreme sufficient, with a 3rd act that is only a strong hour of city robotic warfare. Plus there’s John Malkovich being bizarre and Frances McDormand because the requisite authorities stooge. To cap all of it off, you have obtained the traitorous Leonard Nimoy-bot making an attempt to usher within the apocalypse from Trump Tower in Chicago — in 2017, no different “Transformers” film feels that appropriate.