According to a producer of TF4, a new Trilogy is not 100%

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Didn't Hasbro confirm there would be a new trilogy ages ago? This is baffling.

There are links and things in the Article above. It's a gaming forum i'm on, and news from here is very rarely wrong.

 

I think what he means is that they are waiting for box office numbers for AOE before commuting 100% to a new trilogy.

 

Hope so, i need my live action fix every 2/3 years  

 

Hasbro doesn't make the movies. They can't really confirm anything movie related because it is all subject to change.

 

I thought they did back at the toyfair?

 

Not being set in stone isn't a bad idea. If people react badly to Age of Extinction then they can try to change things up for part 5, if people go crazy for it and it can revitalize the franchise in the US then try to keep on that track.

Although I strongly disagree about spin offs. Spin offs are often done in franchises that are so story rich and character rich that you just can't fit everything into one film. The live action Transformers just seems to lack the richness of story or character to spin off into anything other than little clones of the other Transformers films. With so many A list Decepticons already dead they don't have enough for the main series and spin off films.

 

This does not scream confidence on part of the producer that AoE will do well.

 

Who cares if they are A list Decepticons. Drift wasn't an A list Autobot and tons of people still want to see him in action. I think animated spin offs in the movie style might be a good move.

 

I think everybody is taking this a bit too literally. It says "We're not planning on doing a trilogy. We're not not planning on doing a trilogy. It's really a one-movie-at-a-time philosophy".

I think what's going on here is that di Bonaventura is saying that they aren't going with Marvel's game plan and mapping out movies years in advance. They're focusing on the movie they're currently working on while leaving room for a sequel, but not focusing on the sequel before they start working on it.

That's what I got out of the article anyway

 

The "Transformers" license is owned by hasbro. For a Transformers film to even be made, Hasbro has to back it. It is subject to change but Hasbro calls the shots. They just have to get Paramount on board.

EDIT: Also what the guy above me said. ^

 

Or another studio xD

With the way Transformers is at the box office, Legendary, 20th century, hell, even Disney would want in.

 

But if Paramount doesn't want to make a trilogy, Hasbro can't confirm there will be one.

 

I do think Paramount needs Hasbro more than Hasbro needs Paramount.

 

Um, who would those people be? Drift didn't exist until his introduction in the IDW series at the time of AHM, where he proved to be basically one of those 'really awesome guys that everybody in the fiction likes but he actually doesn't do anything special' types and Shame McCarthy's fanfiction character made official.

People didn't start actually liking him as a character until Roberts worked his magic on him. Even then, he's relatively unknown as a 'legacy' character on par with all the G1 dudes who have been remade again and again since time immemorial, limited only to the MTMTE title. They only used him as an excuse to make a samurai Autobot (and no, he's not the first one of those, since Bludgeon is still a far superior samurai Transformer since 1989 and also existed as a movie design - which was even a converted Energon reject design - back in ROTF as one of its finest voyagers in the NEST line).

But on the subject of A-List Decepticons, they've basically done away with the entire 1984 lineup + Shockwave. The only ones from that set of characters who aren't dead are Rumble, Buzzsaw, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, with the first two being not possible thanks to Soundwave's death, and the later two are normally just Starscream repaint filler anyway. There truly isn't any major Decepticons they can use at this point.

Ok. Tell me how many movies Paramount releases per year as opposed to the number of movies Hasbro has had part of in total. Then give me the sum of the combined profit.

Because I'm pretty sure Paramount doesn't need Hasbro to survive, and attempts by Hasbro to make their franchises into live action movies outside of Transformers have all been dysmal flops, with GIJOE in particular possibly having been destroyed by RoC's failure.

 

They never said they dont want one. They are just taking it one film at a time.

 

Alot of people still care for A-List Decepticons.

They are as much Transformers as Overpowered Prime and Bumbledore

 

Wasn't he a Micromaster?

He didn't get an Identity till IDW, but he had a few obscure figures before hand.

As for A-list decepticons, there is still Reflector, all the combiners aside from Devestator, (Admittedly Brawl would need...urm, changing.) and of course the Insecticons.

Then u have the others from season 3 on wards, fan favourites like Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Cyclonus and Scourge, who i would easily consider A list.

 

Numerous people on this forum alone. Not to mention in the comments section for the tv spots and stuff like that.

 

Part 4 could be a trainwreck and the producers have seen it. They might not be as enthusiastic as they were 6 months ago.

 

Actually, looking it up, "Drift" was the name of the Japanese version of Armada Dirt Boss, a mini-con component of the Skyboom Shield. So, basically, he had no character whatsoever, like all the other mini-cons really. He certainly was not Japanese influenced.

Drift as a normal Autobot didn't come until five years later in AHM, where he was intentionally made super-Japanese as an "homage to the country where Transformers was created" to quote McCarthy for the reasoning. Even though it was actually Hasbro, in America, that came up with the foundations of the modern Transformers brand, Japan just had the toys (which, when attempted to be sold in America in their original lines, actually failed domestically)

But back to the point: There technically was never a Drift anybody until 2008 when he showed up in AHM.

Because the TFW forums are any significant portion of the actual general public going to see this film?

Please.