The Next Live-Action Transformers Movie Could Leave Planet Earth Entirely

In the finale of “Rise of the Beasts,” Noah is recruited by G.I. Joe, represented by a character named Agent Burke (Michael Kelly). If there is another “Transformers” movie, it will likely involve the characters from “G.I. Joe” as well. 

To date, there have already been nine “G.I. Joe” feature films, three of them in live-action, and it seems Hasbro would like two of their most popular 1980s toy lines to intersect. G.I. Joe, for those unfamiliar, is a line of soldier toys that skew heavily into sci-fi. The Joes aren’t necessarily Americans, but a freelance military force that uses high-tech vehicles and weapons to face off against an equally unaffiliated terrorist organization called Cobra. In the 1983 animated series “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,” the Joes did indeed occasionally go to space. Caple seems quite ready for both the Transformers and the Joes to unite in a place far away from Earth. In the EW interview, he said: 

“There’s a big mission at hand. […] I think it’s really cool that there are other planets out there with Transformers. It’s one of the reasons why I introduced the Maximals that way at the beginning of our film. […] I was pulling from these Japanese cartoons where there’s Transformers on every other planet. I just feel like we’ve been on Earth for a very long time. So there might be something interesting to explore there, maybe taking this war and battle somewhere else.”

The Japanese cartoons that Caple refers to were produced in the 1980s and rarely seen outside of Japan. “Transformers: The Headmasters” debuted in 1987, with “Transformers: Super-God Master Force,” “Transformers: Victory,” and “Transformers: Zone” following in 1988, 1989, and 1990, respectively.

In the timeline of the live-action “Transformers” films, the robots have been on Earth for many, many years. There have been a few fleeting glimpses of Cybertron (there is a Cybertronian battle at the beginning of the 2018 film “Bumblebee”), but no major Transformers action has taken place anywhere other than Earth or the moon.