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Paramount Pictures confirmed on Thursday during the CinemaCon 2024 event in Las Vegas that they are producing a movie that combines the Transformers and GI Joe franchises.
Steven Spielberg is the executive producer for the new film. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (pictured right) producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy will return for the crossover film.
This crossover idea is based on the Marvel GI Joe and Transformers comics from 1987.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the first film in a planned trilogy for Paramount Pictures' live-action Transformers franchise, opens in June 2023, delayed by nearly a year from its original release date. opening in June 2022. The film grossed an estimated $60.5 million in 3,678 theaters in its opening weekend in the United States. The film opened in Japan that August under the title Transformers: Beast Kakusei.
The animated series Transformers: Earthspark launches exclusively on Paramount+ in the US in November 2022, as well as on Paramount+ and select Nickelodeon channels worldwide. The movie has 26 episodes.
Source: Deadline (Anthony D'Alessandro)