RUMOR: Transformers Origin Spin-off Movie Set On Cybertron

Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man) have joined the writers for Paramount who has been been building the groundwork for a Transformer’s shared universe.  The pair will be working with other writers on a prequel and spin-off ideas to expand the studios Transformers film franchise.

Transformers One, a prequel origin story that would be set on the Autobot and Decepticon’s home world of Cybertron, which in thought is a good idea but word is it will be animated.

Akiva Goldsman, has become the head man in charge for the Transformers Universe and has assembled an impressive but also mixed bag of writers which includes creators like The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Iron Man writers Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim 2’s Zak Penn, and Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost‘s Jeff Pinkner.  Currently they are tasked with getting the lastest Transformers movie together by the time Michael Bay has finished his unrelated project, so yes, if you were hoping Bay would no longer be playing in the Transformers world, sorry to say he hasn’t left yet.

Underworld 5 Has Been Announced!

I remember when the first Underworld came out and I really enjoyed it.  It was cool, kind of new in the sense that we haven’t had a movie where two supernatural monsters were duking it out over hundreds of years but it wasn’t the amazing battle between vampire and lycanthrope we’ve been waiting on and the series started to dwindle and while the third one was had some cool moments, by the fourth one I was done with this series but now…I could still give less of a crap about this pending sequel, especially since they’ve decided to go with the most generic title Underworld: Next Generation.  Still not at that place where we’ll see Underworld: The New Pack, or Underworld: The Reckoning?

Kate Beckinsale will be returning but that’s about it at the moment.  Underworld 5 will be directed by Anna Foerster who has directed a bunch of tv stuff like Outlander and Criminal Minds, but she has a ton of experience behind the camera as a director of photography, second unit director, and assistant director in films like White House Down and Anonymous, as well as contributing footage to The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC.

Underworld 5 is scheduled to film in Prague starting in October, and you have to assume that Prague in the fall is an ideal place to shoot a movie about ancient sects of vampires and werewolves battling each other.