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Robert Kirkman and Others To Write ‘Transformers’ Shared Universe Movies
Since Paramount announced that they would be building a shared universe for the Transformers franchise led by the brain trust of Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the studio has been actively looking for writers who could write for the upcoming sequels and spinoffs. Akiva Goldsman has been charged with mapping out the future of the franchise, and now Paramount and Hasbro has found the group of writers that will help Goldsman work out the scripts for these sequels and spinoffs.
According to Deadline, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim 2“˜s Zak Penn, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost“˜s Jeff Pinkner are the new team that will write the Transformers expanded universe. More below.
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Tags: Akiva Goldsman, Art Marcum, Jeff Pinkner, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Matt Holloway, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Robert Kirkman, Steven Spielberg, Transformers, Zak Penn
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‘Transformers 5’ Targets 2017 Release
Despite Transformers: Age of Extinction being one of the lowest grossing of all the live-action Transformer films, the franchise will be getting a fifth installment. Recent news of the franchise forming a story trust to expand for possible crossovers (though not one with G.I. Joe) would allow for endless – yet possibly mindless action-filled possibilities. We’re not really sure what to make of Transformers 5, due to the fact that development on the film has been inactive. Now we are getting word that Hasbro is eyeing Transformers 5 for a 2017 release.
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Paramount Planning For Marvel-Style Transformers Universe With Sequels, Spinoffs
Disney has Marvel and Star Wars, Warner Bros has DC and LEGO, and Sony has Ghostbusters and possibly Spider-Man. So it was only a matter of time before Paramount gets into the game by building a cinematic universe around their franchises, and they will start off with one of their more lucrative franchises: Transformers.
The studio will hire Akiva Goldsman to help map out the new Transformers universe, and Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura will act as executive producers/brain trust. More on this after the jump.
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Watch The First Trailer For ‘The Death Of Superman Lives: What Happened?’
In January of last year Jon Schnepp, a Los Angeles-based director of the Adult Swim series Metalocalypse and The Venture Brothers as well as a contributor to the horror anthology feature The ABCs of Death, created a Kickstarter page to raise funds for a documentary he hoped to make about an aborted attempt to reboot the Superman franchise in the late 1990s. After raising the budget necessary to proceed Schnepp managed to secure interviews with several of the principal players and now The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? is very much a reality.
Schnepp has released the first trailer for the film, which you watch here below.
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Tags: DC Comics, Grant Morrison, Jon Schnepp, Kevin Smith, Kickstarter, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Nicolas Cage, Superman Lives, The Death of Superman Lives, Tim Burton, Warner Bros
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