Don't get your hopes up for spinoff movies or a Transformers/GI Joe crossover film.
What strange times we live in where we even have to lead with a headline like this. But with Marvel's ever-widening sphere of superhero influence, FOX readying ever more X-Men films, Sony trying to do the same with Spider-Man, Warner Bros. poised to follow suit with the Justice League movies, and even Star Warsgetting in on the action with standalone entries, it seems like the only way to go is bigger. Always bigger. More.
Now, the Transformersmovies aren't exactly known for their subtlety. If ever there was a series of movies prone to excess, this would be it. It would seem, however, that even the Transformersfranchise has its limits, though.
For starters, the talk that Transformers: Age of Extinction is the first film in a new trilogy of Transformers movies is a little premature. Instead, Lorenzo di Bonaventura told IGNthat he is sticking to a "one-movie-at-a-time philosophy." Fair enough, but let's not forget that Transformers 5 is already on the calendar for 2016. But if nothing else, these films aren't dependent on each other from a story standpoint. As for spinoffs: "I think a lot of those spinoffs tend to happen when something's plateaued. We're not at that place yet, hopefully."
As for the giant robots teaming up with those other toy giants of the silver screen, GI Joe, well...don't get too excited for that yet, either. Mr. di Bonaventura told MTV (transcription courtesy of SlashFilm) that:
No, we haven’t spent a moment on [a GI Joe Transformers movie]. I know they did it in the comic books, but I think the reality that we’re looking at is…it’s hard enough to figure out how to do it alone and [then] trying to figure out how to do it together…I don’t think that it’s as organic as people think. I know a lot of the fans feel that way and I don’t think they’re wrong. I find it a harder thing to do, think about trying to combine the schedules of all the different people. So, that alone will probably stop us.
There you have it. Things change, though, and G.I. Joe and Transformers have had plenty of comic book crossovers to keep fans hot for the idea of seeing them together on the screen. But maybe some things are best left to the imagination.
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