Animated ‘Transformers’ Prequel Activated; ‘Toy Story 4’s Josh Cooley To Direct For Hasbro/eOne & Paramount

Mod edit: Additional Sources

Animated 'Transformers' Prequel in the Works With 'Toy Story 4' Director

Paramount/Hasbro Toy Story 4 Josh Cooley Direct Animated Transformers – Deadline

 

Wow, this is big news. And Deadline is an accurate source. This thread would be more appropriate in the News and Rumors forum.

And this is directed by Cooley who has written Inside Out. Damn, that's honestly impressive that Paramount was able to nab him for a Transformers film.

EDIT: Inside Out was written by Cooley, not directed. Oops.

EDIT 2: Thread just got moved and merged so my entire comment may be useless now.  

 

Seems like reputable sources are posting this. Linked in the investor thread as well Paramount/Hasbro Toy Story 4 Josh Cooley Direct Animated Transformers – Deadline

Mod edit: Also confirmed by Hollywood Reporter

Animated 'Transformers' Prequel in the Works with 'Toy Story 4' Director

 

If Hollywood Reporter posts it, it means its true. Straight up. (I work in the industry).

Things may fall through, or plans may change. But at the moment, this is true.

I'm freaking out. I adore Toy Story 4.

As a side note: you will see more big-budget animated movies in the near future. Hollywood will take years to get back to the scale of live-action production it was at pre-Covid19. Animated projects are far easier to work on in a socially-distant industry.

 

I believe he was a writer fo inside out, but he did also write and direct Toy Story 4, which I thought was really great. According to variety they’ve had the writers of The Ant-Man films writing this since the writers room was assembled

 

Ah, you're right. Pretty impressive still.

 

I am very intrigued by this! Hopefully we’ll hear more soon.

 

I look forward to seeing how this turns out!

 

Seperate from the Bay movies you say?

I'm definitely interested. Toy Story 4 wasn't great but hey, give the guy a shot I guess. I liked Inside Out.

 

Wow.

 

The only websites that are credible sources are the Hollywood reporter , variety, or deadline anything else that's writers news for this are false and clickbait articles

 

"I am not Bumblebee! AAAAAAAHHH!"

-Cliffjumper

 

Interesting. Look forward to hearing more about this.
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Haven't they pretty much abandoned the Bay movies?

 

- Directed by a good director who has a history of directing and writing good films
- A good writer is on board
- It's probably not linked to the Bayverse
- It's an animated film on Cybertron (aka no humans)

It almost seems too good to be true. Please be good.

 

It would seem that they're in the process of doing so, hopefully. The Bumblebee movie originally had a lot more to do with the previous continuity but then they made the smart decision and distance their movie from the previous series, though there are still some allusions to the previous series still in there.

Hopefully they keep at it.

 

This has been independently confirmed by Deadline and Hollywood Reporter. Deadline specifically says it will focus on the relationship between Optimus and Megatron.

 

That's a misleading thread title, but I know you didn't mean for it to be.

Yeah, it sounded like they were gonna make a movie that was a prequel to Animated. Even if direct-to-video, that'd be great.

 

This is basically my mindset at the moment.  

 

Yup I always wanted to see that on film. I hope the reaction is good from movie critics

 

Yeah thats why i put it on the movie thread instead of the news and rumors