When word recently broke that Michael B. Jordan was looking to make his directorial debut on Creed 3, I wondered why they simply hadn’t asked Creed 2 director Steven Caple Jr. to return. Well, now we may know the reason. Deadline reports Caple is headed to Paramount where he’ll direct the next live-action Transformers movie.
Believe it or not, it’s been two years (!!!) since the last Transformers movie, the critically-acclaimed Bumblebee. But as far as the core movies go, there hasn’t been one since 2017’s The Last Knight, which was so bad Paramount decided to revamp the whole franchise. You may recall that two scripts were set in motion, one by James Vanderbilt (White House Down) and another by Joby Harold (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword). It was Harold’s script that won out, and now Caple will come aboard to make it a reality.
What that means…well, we still don’t know. The idea was to try and stick closer to the source material, sorta like how Bumblebee did with a budget considerably less than the amounts Bay demanded. Caple is 2 for 2 in making really kickass films, starting with 2016’s criminally-underseen The Land, and of course, Creed 2, which is perhaps more relevant here because it showed he can respect prior material. Hopefully, that was a factor in Paramount’s decision to hire him.
