Paramount Pictures and Hasbro have a new installment of Transformers that seeks to reunite the original team.
The film studio assured the return of Steven Spielberg as executive producer, in addition to supervising the creative direction of the franchise alongside veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. On the other hand, Michael Bay He is holding preliminary negotiations to join as director of the next film, which will mark the eighth installment of the saga (via Deadline).
Bay directed the original 2007 installment, and the following four sequels: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), y Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).
Paramount Pictures co-chairmen Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg met with Spielberg in one of their first meetings at the studio following Skydance's merger with Paramount in August 2025. Now, Transformers 8 is shaping up to be one of the first major new projects under the newly formed Skydance, following the closing of the acquisition between Paramount and Warner Bros.
Spielberg played a similar creative role in the first two films, and departed from that role for the later installments.
If the agreement is finalized, Bay would direct the film from a script written by Jason Fuchs (IT: Welcome to Derry). Although plot details are being kept confidential, it is known that the plot will be set in the current era.
Shia LaBeouf will not participate in the new film.
Producers will be Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Hasbro.
The combined box office of the seven films collects more than $5.4 billion at the global box office. The first two grossed more than $700 million worldwide, while Dark of the Moon y Age of Extinction They exceeded $1,000 million dollars. The Last Knight reached $600 million dollars, with the prequel Bumblebee (2018) by Travis Knight, collecting $471 million worldwide.
The most recent delivery, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), starring Anthony Ramos, achieved a global box office of $440 million.
Source: https://cine3.com/michael-bay-dirigira-proxima-transformers-steven-spielberg-supervisara/
