GO DIRECT A STAR WAR After the shock news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller had been fired from their positions on the Han Solo spin-off movie, it was revealed yesterday by Disney and Lucasfilm that Ron Howard would be taking over. Ron Howard has a lot of connections to George Lucas, appearing in the director’s […]
Transformers producer says Bumblebee movie will be “a very distinctive departure” from previous films
With the latest instalment in the franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, opening to near-universally negative reviews [read ours here and here] and a series-low start at the box office, it seems that audiences may finally be tiring of the Michael Bay brand of Transformers movie. At least, that’s what Paramount and Hasbro will presumably be hoping, […]
Kubo and the Two Strings director to helm Bumblebee Transformers spinoff
Paramount Pictures has found a director for the first of its planned Transformers spinoffs, with Deadline reporting that Travis Knight, director of the Oscar-winning Kubo and the Two Strings, has signed on to helm the Bumblebee solo movie. The Bumblebee film emerged from Paramount’s Transformers writers room, and has been written by Christina Hodson (Shut […]
Paramount moving ahead with Bumblebee Transformers spinoff, screenwriter working on Harley Quinn / Birds of Prey movie
Back in February Paramount Pictures set release dates for three Transformers movies following their much publicised “writers room” to establish a cinematic universe for the robots in disguise, one of which was a Bumblebee spinoff. Well, it seems the studio is now ready to move ahead with the movie, with Deadline reporting that screenwriter Christina Hodson (Shut In) […]
Transformers Bumblebee spinoff to be “lower cost”, 2019 movie also standalone
Last week it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Hasbro have set release dates for three Transformers movies in 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively. Initially, it was thought that the Michael Bay-directed Transformers 5 would be followed by Transformers 6 and Transformers 7, before it was clarified that the 2018 movie would actually be a […]