The Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie Is Officially Happening

Each G.I. Joe and Transformers are owned by Hasbro, and each of their movie franchises are launched by Paramount, which implies that you may mix them right into a single film if one have been so inclined.

Properly, Hasbro and Paramount are so inclined.

After the film was first teased on the finish of the latest Transformers film, Rise of the Beasts, it’s now official. Paramount revealed at CinemaCon this week that they’re actually engaged on a film that can characteristic each the Transformers and the members of G.I. Joe.

There aren’t many extra particulars in regards to the challenge than that at this level, though Steven Spielberg is concerned as an govt producer, together with longtime Transformers and G.I. Joe movie sequence producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, and Don Murphy.

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The transfer comes at a time when each movie franchises are at a low ebb on their very own. Rise of the Beasts was launched final summer season, and drew a few of its storylines from the Transformers: Beast Wars toys and animated sequence. It wound up grossing $439 million in theaters, the bottom complete for the Transformers live-action motion pictures thus far.

However that was a blockbuster in comparison with the final G.I. Joe film: Snake Eyes, which grossed simply $40 million worldwide when it premiered in theaters in the summertime of 2021. Admittedly, that was nonetheless the pandemic, and the box-office grosses of numerous releases have been impacted throughout that point. However nonetheless: $40 million for an enormous franchise like G.I. Joe shouldn’t be good. (Neither have been the movie’s evaluations.)

That might clarify why Hasbro and Paramount are actually trying to attempt combining the 2. Audiences appear to have grown uninterested in these sequence on their very own.