Transformers/GI Joe Movie Isn't A Crossover Exactly, Producer Explains

Lan Pitts
8/6/2024

The G.I. Joe and Transformers film franchises are some of the successful films of the past 20 years. While the Transformers movies are in the middle of a prequel era, the G.I. Joe films have yet to really take off. That could change in the near future with G.I. Joe getting another chance at a revival and the potential for a crossover with those mighty robots that was hinted at the end of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts--it's not like they've never done it before. However, talking to the Transformers One producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, he explains to GameSpot that there will be a crossover film, but not in the way we think of what crossover actually entails."I think you have to be careful because I think where the danger lies is when you try to fully represent both," he said. "Somebody's going to get a little short shrift here. I'll give you an example: If you think about a lot of our movies, we have this team going out trying to save the day. Is that team a couple of Joes? Does that satisfy us all? I don't think that satisfies enough. But this idea of crossover, which I rebel against a little bit, only in the sense that it seems like it's promising an utter unity between the worlds."Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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