Following a tease during the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Paramount has officially confirmed at CinemaCon 2024 that a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie will be released in theaters in 2025 or 2026.
While we didn't learn anything else about the movie, it was confirmed that Steven Spielberg will be an executive producer on the project and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, and Don Murphy will serve as producers.
For those unaware, the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts saw Noah being interviewed for a security job by a mysterious agent played by Michael Kelly who hands him a business card with the G.I. Joe logo on it. Because of Noah's experience, he has actually been recruited to that top-secret military organization that many of us loved growing up.
This crossover has been teased for many years, with Bonaventura calling it a "possibility" back as early as 2014. Having Transformers and G.I. Joe together is a big deal as it has never happened before in live-action or even in animated form. There were crossovers in the comics beginning with 1986's G.I. Joe and the Transformers, but that was it!
This movie is very likely to be the next entry in the Transformers franchise following Rise of the Beasts, a film we said in our review "proves that the Transformers franchise is accelerating in the right direction, delivering solid Autobots action and a solid voice cast behind the infamous robots in disguise."
The animated film Transformers One also got a behind-closed-doors first look at Paramount's CinemaCon presentation, and it showed a young Optimus Prime and Megatron as lowly worker bots who can't even transform. To earn their ability to transform, they must go on a journey to the surface world.
We also got a glimpse of Bumblebee and Megatron going up to the surface world via a supply train and Elita working in search of the Matrix of Leadership.
Transformers One will be released on September 14, 2024, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime/Orion Pax, Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron/D-16, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee/B-127, Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.
For more, read more about how Transformers: Rise of the Beasts sets up this crossover and how Skybound's Transformers has reinvented the franchise by going back to its roots.
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