Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton
At the beginning of the year, Paramount Pictures hired two different writers to pen two different Transformers scripts that would be developed concurrently. Joby Harold, who wrote King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, was one of the writers hired to pen a new installment of the franchise, and now that project is looking to bring in Creed II director Steven Caple Jr.
The Hollywood Reporter has news on the next Transformers movie in the works at Paramount Pictures. Steven Caple Jr. only has two feature films on his resume: his breakthrough indie project The Land, and the Rocky spin-off sequel Creed II. The latter was a solid sequel to the rejuvenating Creed, but many felt it didn't quite measure up to the greatness that director Ryan Coogler brought to the franchise. But even so, it proves that Caple Jr. can craft a serviceable sequel with established characters.
Even though Steven Caple Jr. is now boarding the project, we still know next to nothing about what this movie will be. The report mentions that Paramount Pictures is charting a new course for the series, but we're not sure if that means this is a hard reboot that ignores the rest of the movies, or a soft reboot that picks up sometime after the events of Bumblebee, a movie which somewhat rebooted the franchise by taking the story back to the 1980s and using the original G1 character designs.
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- Creed II is a 2018 American sports drama film directed by Steven Caple Jr. And written by Sylvester Stallone and Juel Taylor from a story by Sascha Penn and Cheo Hodari Coker. A sequel to 2015's Creed and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series, it stars Michael B. Jordan, Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Wood Harris, and Phylicia Rashad.
When the two new Transformersprojects were announced, it was said that Paramount Pictures wanted them to 'build out multiple arcs and to also expand the Transformers universe.' That presumably means that any of the human characters previously introduced would have been left behind. While one of the scripts was said to be set in the same universe as the previous movies, the other was said to be a 'grand-scale reimagining.' And here's where things get confusing. Adobe photoshop for mac kickass.
The other script being written by James Vanderbilt was said to be based on Transformers: BeastWars, with a story set in the future of the 'original' Transformers continuity and followed the clash of the Maximals and the Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons. So if the Beast Wars movie is set in the future of the 'original' Transformers continuity, then that could be the one set in the same universe as the previous movies. That would mean Harold's script could be the 'grand-scale reimagining,' and we could be heading into total reboot territory.
Creed II also misses a major opportunity to tell a great story about fathers and sons. Stallone's script just isn't strong enough to link the dynamics between Ivan and Viktor, Apollo.
The Transformers movies already have quite the convoluted timeline, especially when it comes to their history with Earth. So all of this confusion is par for the course with the franchise. Keep in mind that in addition to these two movies, Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley is still working on an animated Transformers film focusing on Cybertron and the origins of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons. And that's separate from the rest of the Transformers movies.
Obviously the Transformers franchise is a high priority for Paramount Pictures, and it'll be interesting to see what they do with these characters after relying on the universe that Michael Bay built for so long.
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Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker spoke with /Film by phone this week about the second season of his show. We'll bring you the full interview next week, but during the interview, we got to ask him about writing the sequel to Creed, which brings back Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), with a son of his own to fight Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan).
'It's about the legacies of sons haunted by their fathers,' Coker said. 'Even though Drago is alive, his son is haunted by him because Drago is a broken man who's trying to rebuild himself through the son. Apollo Creed isn't broken but because Apollo died, Adonis Creed is still haunted by his father's death and how it defined him, what it is it means now to be a champion. He's aspiring to be a champion but also at the same time trying to figure out who it is he is. Particularly with Bianca, particularly also because he's got Rocky who at this point becomes the new Mickey.'
It sounds like Rocky Balboa's (Sylvester Stallone) emotional story is still a major part of Creed II as well. Hard disk partition macbook pro.
'He really is the trainer who was a champion and lost it, kind of got something back and of course is still, in his own way trying to deal with the absence of Adrian,' Coker continued. 'It's one of those things that thematically, haunted me.'
Stallone worked with Coker on later drafts as well. While Stallone is the ultimate authority on Rocky, Coker was so impacted by Creed he made sure to represent the film that meant so much to him.
'The first Creed is one of the best movies I've ever seen,' Coker said. 'I cried like a baby when they got to that scene when he's like, ‘Why are you doing this, kid?' and he's like, ‘I just want to prove that I wasn't a mistake.' I'm sitting there, oh my God, I was verklempt, man. A lot of black men that have issues with their fathers, when they saw that scene, it became our Brian's Song. It became our Remember the Titans. It became one of those movies that it is acceptable for ‘macho' men to cry during. So the opportunity to work on Creed II was definitely something that I fought for, something that I couldn't pass up. Later on, when I got to work with Stallone on the draft, that was a dream come true.'
Steven Caple, Jr. directs Creed II. Jordan and Tessa Thompson also return from the original.
Creed 2 Cast
'I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the Rocky director pantheon,' Coker said. 'From what I've been hearing he's really kicking ass in terms of filming. When I was working on the screenplay with Sly, he's still really passionate about Rocky and about the character. Michael B. Jordan and Tessa are just really great people and just fun to be around. They're very passionate and very smart. I have really high hopes. Come on, to be able to be a part of a second season of Luke Cage and, fingers crossed, hopefully still be a part of Creed II in the final [edit]. I say hopefully. As a screenwriter you have a lot less control over the final product than you do as a showrunner but just to even be involved in any capacity with that was a blast. Just from a creative standpoint, I'm so gassed, happy, caught up, I don't know what adjectives you want to use. It's a great time.'
Coker also has a credit on a film adaptation of the toy and cartoon line M.A.S.K. He clarified that he was a part of Akiva Goldsman's writers room set up to develop Transformers: The Last Knight and other HASBRO franchises, but could not say if there was movement on a M.A.S.K. film.
'I was a part of a Hasbro writers room,' Coker said. 'That room itself was a blast. I didn't know half the time whether to take notes for story or to get autographs.'
Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker spoke with /Film by phone this week about the second season of his show. We'll bring you the full interview next week, but during the interview, we got to ask him about writing the sequel to Creed, which brings back Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), with a son of his own to fight Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan).
'It's about the legacies of sons haunted by their fathers,' Coker said. 'Even though Drago is alive, his son is haunted by him because Drago is a broken man who's trying to rebuild himself through the son. Apollo Creed isn't broken but because Apollo died, Adonis Creed is still haunted by his father's death and how it defined him, what it is it means now to be a champion. He's aspiring to be a champion but also at the same time trying to figure out who it is he is. Particularly with Bianca, particularly also because he's got Rocky who at this point becomes the new Mickey.'
It sounds like Rocky Balboa's (Sylvester Stallone) emotional story is still a major part of Creed II as well. Hard disk partition macbook pro.
'He really is the trainer who was a champion and lost it, kind of got something back and of course is still, in his own way trying to deal with the absence of Adrian,' Coker continued. 'It's one of those things that thematically, haunted me.'
Stallone worked with Coker on later drafts as well. While Stallone is the ultimate authority on Rocky, Coker was so impacted by Creed he made sure to represent the film that meant so much to him.
'The first Creed is one of the best movies I've ever seen,' Coker said. 'I cried like a baby when they got to that scene when he's like, ‘Why are you doing this, kid?' and he's like, ‘I just want to prove that I wasn't a mistake.' I'm sitting there, oh my God, I was verklempt, man. A lot of black men that have issues with their fathers, when they saw that scene, it became our Brian's Song. It became our Remember the Titans. It became one of those movies that it is acceptable for ‘macho' men to cry during. So the opportunity to work on Creed II was definitely something that I fought for, something that I couldn't pass up. Later on, when I got to work with Stallone on the draft, that was a dream come true.'
Steven Caple, Jr. directs Creed II. Jordan and Tessa Thompson also return from the original.
Creed 2 Cast
'I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the Rocky director pantheon,' Coker said. 'From what I've been hearing he's really kicking ass in terms of filming. When I was working on the screenplay with Sly, he's still really passionate about Rocky and about the character. Michael B. Jordan and Tessa are just really great people and just fun to be around. They're very passionate and very smart. I have really high hopes. Come on, to be able to be a part of a second season of Luke Cage and, fingers crossed, hopefully still be a part of Creed II in the final [edit]. I say hopefully. As a screenwriter you have a lot less control over the final product than you do as a showrunner but just to even be involved in any capacity with that was a blast. Just from a creative standpoint, I'm so gassed, happy, caught up, I don't know what adjectives you want to use. It's a great time.'
Coker also has a credit on a film adaptation of the toy and cartoon line M.A.S.K. He clarified that he was a part of Akiva Goldsman's writers room set up to develop Transformers: The Last Knight and other HASBRO franchises, but could not say if there was movement on a M.A.S.K. film.
'I was a part of a Hasbro writers room,' Coker said. 'That room itself was a blast. I didn't know half the time whether to take notes for story or to get autographs.'
Creed II is in theaters November 21. Luke Cage season 2 hits Netflix on June 22.
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