Last week, reports came out that the “Transformers” writers’ room is pretty much complete as put together by both Akiva Goldsman and Michael Bay that assured the next installment of the very successful robot movie series of a good storyline as well as all future films or spinoff movies of the franchise.
The new team of “Transformers” writers include Jeff Pickner, whose writing credits include “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “Fringe,” and “Lost;” Zack Penn, who wrote “X-Men: The Last Stand,” and “Pacific Rim 2;” Art Marcus, who wrote for “Iron Man;” Robert Kirkman, who is one of the writers of “The Walking Dead” TV series; and Matt Holloway.
The Day Herald reported that the pool has further been expanded with the inclusion of Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrer, who co-wrote “Ant-Man.”
Deadline also reported that the writers’ room has two more new additions and both are ladies including Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer.
Hodson counts to her writing credits “The Eden Project” and “Shut In.” She was recently commissioned by Warner Bros to write the new version of “The Fugitive” that previously starred Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
Beer, on the other hand, wrote the Disney family adventure “Dig,” “Short Circuit,” “How to Nail an Alien” for The Weinstein Company, “Electric,” and the reimagined “The Wizard of Oz.”
With a talented pool of proven excellent writers, there is no way that “Transformers 5” could go wrong as far as storyline is concerned. The even better news for Paramount is that it does not have to worry about the storylines of the future sequels of the franchise including its expected spinoff movies.
Go back to basics
The fourth “Transformers” movie officially titled “Transformers: Age of Extinction” did made money for Paramount Pictures when it was released on June 27, 2014 as well as the previous three movies. But many of the franchise’s young fans were actually alienated by its rather complicated storyline.
While the plotline of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” was interesting and engrossing enough for astute movie goers, it has practically wandered off the radar as far as most young audiences are concerned.
It should be noted that “Transformers” as a franchise is meant for the young generation since its beginning was actually a TV animation and a comic book for kids.
Sensing the general sentiment of the young viewers, Peter Cullen, the voice actor for Optimus Prime has reportedly requested producers of the “Transformers” franchise to go back to the previous plotlines so as not to alienate the kids and young fans of the movie series further.
Outer space plotline
There have been initial reports that “Transformers 5,” as a sequel to “Transformers: Age of Extinction” will be shot in outer space or in Cybertron as Optimus Prime fly to outer space to find their creator.
The same reports also hinted that both the Autobots and the Decepticons will have different alliances when they battle it out again in Cybertron.
Subsequently, other reports came out to say that a good portion of the movie will still be shot in earth that is why Mark Wahlberg has confirmed his return to the franchise. But all these information are mere speculations at this time.
Bey,
Missed three (3) important points in the timeline which made “Transformers” classical and a success from comic to animation and Bey deliberately (disrespectfully) erred in all three (3):
(i)Dinobots were created under the order of Optimus Prime by Rachet and Hound to combat the Decipticons and mainly Devastator which proved to be the most powerful, oldest and destructible adjoined-force robot combination — since Omega Supreme.
(ii) Galvatron and his team was not necessarily created, but rather his team was re-built by Unicron. Galvatron was then reverend as a demi-god of the Decipticons who was partially under the control of Unicron. Galvatron’s team also re-built by Unicron and formally Megatron’s attack force whom were severely damaged or killed by Optimus Prime were placed under the control of Galvatron. Their assignment was to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and each leader is shall pass should the sole destruction of the Matrix failed.
(iii) Unicron is the God of Chaos and an autobot creator whom was cast out of the the current Cybertronian system. His return was the revengeful destruction of his betrayers — not the Decepticons, but the Autobots. Use of the Decipticons help was necessary, but he choose better to have them as his own minions and via Galvatron he controlled the Decepticons. Unicron’s underpinning didn’t necessarily end at the rise and fall of Optimus Prime, but rather Starscream whom in the end became the most powerful transformer via his mini-bot in the franchise’s history.
— MMS