Paramount’s Transformers and GI Joe crossover movie, set to star Chris Hemsworth, has a writer: Derek Connolly, who wrote Jurassic World and Detective Pikachu.
Toys will collide in Paramount’s forthcoming Transformers and GI Joe crossover film – a cinematic extravaganza previously hinted at in 2023’s Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts.
Who will write this meeting of Hasbro properties? Derek Connolly, the screenwriter behind such effects-heavy films as Jurassic World and Detective Pikachu. Paramount’s crossover film will star Chris Hemsworth in some capacity, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, will see the Autobots and the Joes pitted against the evil Decepticons and the terrorist group, Cobra.
Hemsworth is lending his voice to Optimus Prime in this September’s Transformers One, a CG-animated prequel about the transforming robots’ earlier lives on the planet Cybertron. How did Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Megatron (voiced by Brian Tyree Henry) go from friends to mortal enemies? Transformers One, directed by Josh Cooley (co-writer of Inside Out), will provide the answers.
That origin story will also form the first third of a planned trilogy if it’s a success; it’s currently unclear whether Transformers One will exist in the same continuity as Paramount’s Transformers and GI Joe crossover. If it does, then it only seems logical that Hemsworth will voice Optimus Prime in it.
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Derek Connolly broke through in 2012 with Safety Not Guaranteed, an indie comedy that was such a sleeper hit that both Connolly and director Colin Trevorrow wound up making Jurassic World together three years later. Since then, Connolly has been busy on a string of high-profile, effects-heavy film scripts, with his other credits including Kong: Skull Island and Trevorrow’s two Jurassic World sequels.
Connolly and Trevorrow are also two of the credited writers on Deep Cover, a smaller-scale comedy thriller about improv actors working their way into London’s criminal underbelly as part of a sting operation. It’ll star Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Ian McShane, Paddy Considine and Sean Bean, among others. It’s directed by Tom Kingsley (Stath Lets Flats) and is due to emerge on Prime Video this year.
We’ll bring you more on the Transformers and GI Joe collision when we get it.
