Jurassic World author Derek Connolly will pen the script for the upcoming Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover film.
The long-awaited Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover film has tapped Derek Connolly to write the script. Connolly isn’t any stranger to big-budget franchise films, having had a hand in writing the scripts for Jurassic World, Kong: Cranium Island, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Detective Pikachu, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Chris Hemsworth has been in talks to star within the crossover between Transformers and G.I. Joe’s, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, and Don Murphy set to provide.
There have been rumblings of a live-action crossover between the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises for fairly a while, however the first steps had been taken in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On the shut of the movie, Anthony Ramos’ character will get a job provide from the Joes. Director Steven Caple Jr. advised THR final 12 months that whereas the studio was eager on the thought, it took nearly two years to get everybody to log off. “I had to talk to all the producers and let them know the vision or direction I was going in,” Caple Jr. mentioned. “I didn’t know all of it in the mean time once I had first pitched it or once they first learn it, however all through the method of constructing this film, it began to get deeper and deeper. So I knew just a little bit extra of the path I needed to go in with the Joes, however the studio was on board for the reason that starting. It simply took some time to get all of the events on board and settled.“
Derek Connolly can also be engaged on the script for the upcoming live-action adaptation of the traditional online game The Legend of Zelda, which might be directed by Wes Ball of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Ball has beforehand mentioned that his imaginative and prescient for the venture is “this superior fantasy-adventure film that isn’t like Lord of the Rings, it’s its personal factor. I’ve all the time mentioned, I might like to see a live-action Miyazaki. That surprise and whimsy that he brings to issues, I might like to see one thing like that.“
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