Paramount is looking to expand their Transformers franchise in a big way, creating a growing "writer's room" to develop sequels, spinoffs, and more, anything to sell a few more Hasbro toys, basically. While there has been talk of a fifth Transformers film slated for 2017, Deadline brings word that we could be seeing an origin story, as well.
Writers Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, who were part of Marvel's many rewriting attempts on Ant-Man, have been added to the Transformers brain trust. Akiva Goldsman sits at the head of the group, and we recently learned that Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Zak Penn (The Avengers) and Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) were filling out the ranks. While it's still extremely early in the process, one of the ideas being kicked around is an origin story set on the Transformers planet of Cybertron, which would be pretty amazing on a visual level. There has also been talk of making it an animated feature, but Barrer and Ferrari were hired to work on a live-action film too so who knows at this point.
We've barely seen anything of life on Cybertron in Michael Bay's films, but assuming he's ready to jump back into Transformers after the Benghazi drama 13 Hours, he'd be the perfect guy to bring it to life on the big screen. The planet was seemingly destroyed at the end of Transformers: Dark of the Moon when Megatron and Sentinel Prime tried to bring it to Earth.
