The events of the last Transformers movie, Rise of The Beasts, gave us a pretty good indication that this was in the pipeline, and it's now been confirmed that the Robots in Disguise will cross paths with the "Real American Heroes" on the big screen.
During Thursday's Paramount Pictures CinemaCon presentation, the studio made it official: A Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover film is in development.
Towards the end of Rise of the Beasts, our heroes manage to defeat Scourge and the Terrocons, but the threat of Unicron still looms. With Optimus Prime and the other Autobots unable to return home, Noah (Anthony Ramos) moves on with his life and lands a new job at a security firm.
There, he encounters the mysterious Agent Burke (Michael Kelly), who hands him a business card with the G.I. Joe logo on it. Burke makes it clear that he wants to recruit Noah and his Autobot pals into this top-secret organization, telling him, “We’re in the middle of an ongoing war.”
Kelly spoke about his brief role during a 2023 interview with Collider.
"[Steven Caple Jr.] called me, and he pitched to me what this was in this film, which originally was going to be a post-credits scene, and then they ended up making it the last scene of the film for whatever reason. When he pitched it to me, he was like, 'And then there’s this whole G.I. Joe world that we’re not sure that we have the rights to yet, but we really want to tie in the two worlds, and I just think it would be this really cool idea.'
"When we shot it, we shot it with a couple of different cards that I give him," Kelly added. "The one that you see is not the only one we shot."
No director has been attached (that we know of), but the movie will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura returning to produce alongside Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, and Don Murphy.
Paramount has had massive success with the Transformers franchise, and the first two Joe movies did pretty good business. However, the recent reboot, an origin film focusing on Snake Eyes, was a flop. With this in mind, it seems likely that the G.I. Joe characters will once again we recast for this crossover.
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"In Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Optimus Prime and the Autobots take on their biggest challenge yet! When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, they must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Noah (Anthony Ramos) and Elena (Dominique Fishback) will do whatever it takes to help the Transformers as they engage in the ultimate battle to save Earth."