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Transformers’ G.I. Joe tease is absolutely ‘a promise’ for the next movie
23.07.2023 - 18:57 / polygon.com
Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura knows how to roll the dice. During a tenure as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, he snatched up the film rights to Harry Potter and threw an exorbitant budget at two indie filmmakers to make something called — checks notes — “The Matrix.” When he went independent in the 2000s, di Bonaventura lured none other than Michael Bay to take the long-gestating Transformers over the finish line. Cut to 16 years and seven sequels later, and the producer is still gambling on the robots in disguise.
“And it is a gamble,” di Bonaventura tells Polygon, as his new movie,Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, continues to roll out across theaters and digital platforms. “Every movie is a gamble and what you add or take away are gambles.”
Rise of the Beasts had its own gamble: While di Bonaventura says his team wanted to add the Maximals, the animal-like Autobots who took off in the ’90s Beast Wars cartoon, into the core franchise for years, they couldn’t crack a story that would actually work. “Naturally, animals and cars don’t mix,” he says. “They can’t go into an urban environment, they’d be a little obvious. There’s no robot in disguise for them in an urban environment.” The fix was a prequel-sequel, squeezed between the core Bay movies and the ’80s-set Bumblebee, that transplanted the action to Peru with an Indiana Jones relic-chasing twist.
The modest success of Bumblebee prompted di Bonaventura and Paramount Pictures to carefully weigh their follow-up play; it’s been five years since the Optimus-less one-off, and the yellow Autobot takes a bit of a backseat this time around. But the Transformers team isn’t waiting to take its next gamble on the franchise. This time it’s built right into the end of Rise of the Beasts, when the film’s human hero Noah (Anthony Ramos) is recruited by none other than the G.I. Joes, who want the Autobots’ help for… something.
“[The G.I. Joe tease] is definitely a promise,” di Bonaventura says, when asked if the Easter egg is anything more than chum in the water. “I’ve had a lot of questions about this, and here’s my direct answer: We have not developed the script. So we don’t know exactly [how they fit in], but the answer is like in every other movie, a group of humans and robots fight the bad guy to save the day. G.I. Joes will be part of that.”
The G.I. Joes were very much not around during the initial Transformers movies (although one could easily mistake Josh Duhamel’s Autobot-affiliated strike team NEST as an offshoot), which raises the question of how they will suddenly team up with the Transformers in a future movie. Di Bonaventura says don’t worry, the team behind the series actually does care about continuity. The producer notes
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