The next publish accommodates SPOILERS for the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts represents a big turning level within the Transformers franchise — and it marks the primary assembly between the film model of the Transformers and their counterparts from the previous Beast Wars cartoon, the Maximals like Optimus Primal, Airazor, and Cheetor. However the movie’s ending additionally units up a fair larger assembly of Hasbro properties.
The movie’s stunning finale entails Rise of the Beasts’ human hero, Noah Diaz (performed by Anthony Ramos) on a job interview the place it seems he’s really being recruited to affix … G.I. Joe, one other considered one of Hasbro’s signature toy properties (turned film franchises) of the Eighties. That scene would seemingly arrange a large Transformers vs. G.I. Joe film sooner or later sooner or later.
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In an interview with Geek Tradition, Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura talked in regards to the stunning twist, which he credited to Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. As he put it:
[Caple] very early on introduced up G.I. Joe and my response was ‘Pay attention, we’ve thought of it. I’m very open; how do you assume it really works?’ And he wasn’t certain at that time. So what occurred was as we have been creating the script, and together with his world point-of-view, how he seemed on the Beasts, as an example, as a result of he grew up with them. He had a really particular factor. What occurred was, we saved coming again to G.I. Joe.
Di Bonaventura mentioned the primary hurdle to launching this crossover was determining how G.I. Joe would know in regards to the Transformers in a world the place they’ve constantly emphasised all through the franchise that nobody is aware of the Autobots exist on Earth.
“Why would any group know? And really what was cool about it was we out of the blue went ‘As a result of they’re G.I. Joe! They might know,’” di Bonaventura defined. He additionally admitted that this clarification is “not totally logical, however it’s emotionally logical.”
Even when this Transformers vs G.I. Joe film comes collectively down the road, it gained’t be the primary time the 2 longtime Hasbro properties have met. Hasbro itself has made numerous G.I. Joe autos that rework into Transformer characters, and each Marvel and IDW have launched their very own Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover comics. Nonetheless, a large $100 million+ crossover movie can be a a lot larger endeavor than something the corporate has ever tried earlier than.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is now enjoying in theaters. You possibly can watch di Bonaventura’s full feedback on a possible G.I. Joe and Transformers crossover under.
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