‘Toy Story 4’ Director Josh Cooley Boards Animated ‘Transformers’ Prequel

Remember the Transformers franchise writers room Paramount launched five years ago with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura? The one which at the time promised us a decade of new Tranformers movies? So far he’s kept good on that promise, and now the animated prequel that came out of those discussions has a director in Toy Story 4‘s Josh Cooley.

Deadline reports Cooley will direct Paramount’s Transformers animated prequel, which is to be set on the home planet of Cybertron. This will be completely separate from the live-action movies spear-headed by Michael Bay, as well as the recent solo Bumblebee movie. As far as the story goes, it’ll focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

Ant-Man & the Wasp writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have long been attached to pen the script. Hasbro/eOne have reportedly already begun production since animation can still proceed despite the pandemic shutting most studios down.

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