By This Friday sees the release of the animated “Transformers One” film which is drawing very good reviews so far, best of the franchise to date in fact.
The film follows in the wake of last year’s live-action “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” film which confirmed the movies take place in the same world as G.I. Joe.
Since then, development has continued on a potential crossover of the two franchises leading to Derek Connolly (“Jurassic World”) being hired in April to pen a script for a crossover film.
Long-time “Transformers” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has now offered an update on the franchise, saying a sequel to “Transformers One” is being planned. He tells Collider:
“Well, we’re going, again, subject to success, we’re going to do a sequel to this [Transformers One], and there will be an animated version, and it will exist completely separately to whatever we do live-action.”
He then confirmed the next live-action movie “will be a crossover” and that with ‘One’ we now see “what these robots are capable of emotionally in a way”.
So the plan is to create a story that can take more advantage of that in the live-action realm. However he hads that “we’re still in the development phase” and says a challenge will be not overloading the film with characters:
“We need to do more now from the robot point of view in the live-action because that’s the only way you’re really going to get inside them. Instead of them reacting to humans or reacting to the human plot, what is their drive, has to be part of that story now.
So it’s going to be complicated because now the hardest thing about a lot of franchise movies is how many characters there are, and the more characters you try to manage, the harder it is to make a bunch of really good ones. You kind of got to keep going, keep it smaller, keep it smaller.
So we’ll be in that process for a while where we’ll start with a bunch of Joes and a bunch of Transformers and I’ll say, regular humans, and then you’re going to do this. That’s kind of where we are right now, is trying to put the larger thing in place.
Thus it becomes a question of figuring out the tone and balance required for such a film. “Transformers One” is set to hit cinemas on Friday, September 20th.
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