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09-06-2016, 04:42 PM | #1 |
Ne Plus Ulta
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Hasbro Cinematic Universe Takes Shape With Michael Chabon, Brian K. Vaughan, Akiva Goldsman (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter The plan is for a universe featuring Hasbro’s G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and ROM brands. Hasbro’s cinematic universe has assembled its writers room, with a Pulitzer Prize winner, an Eisner-winning comic book author and Marvel Studios scribes among those who will be clacking the keyboard. Michael Chabon, who wrote the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked on Spider-Man 2; Brian K. Vaughan, the creator of seminal comic works Y: The Last Man and Saga and showrunner of Under the Dome; and Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel co-writer Nicole Perlman, will help develop a plan for the creation of an interconnected onscreen universe featuring Hasbro’s G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and ROM brands. Also in the group are: ► Lindsey Beer, who was just hired to adapt Kingkiller Chronicle for Lionsgate ► Cheo Coker, showrunner of Marvel’s Netflix show Luke Cage ► John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the comedy writing team who penned Spider-Man: Homecoming ► Joe Robert Cole (a writer on People vs. OJ Simpson who is also writing Black Panther for Marvel) ► Jeff Pinkner, who wrote the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower) ► Nicole Riegel (writer behind the Blacklist script Dogfight) ► Geneva Robertson (one of the writers of new Tomb Raider movie project). Akiva Goldsman, who won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, will oversee the writers room on behalf of Hasbro and Paramount as well as serving as executive producer for all of the films. He is already serving in a similar capacity for Hasbro’s Transformers writers room and the new session is meant to build on its successful fruits and established road map. Allspark Pictures, Hasbro’s film label, will produce the films based on this cross-property universe. Hasbro’s chairman and CEO Brian Goldner and executive vice president and CCO Stephen Davis are serving as producers. Josh Feldman, head of Hasbro’s storytelling, will co-exec produce. The collective’s first meeting will be held Monday on the Paramount lot. Paramount is integrally involved with Hasbro’s cinematic universe and has been the company’s partner on the $3.8 billion grossing Transformers franchise as well as the G.I Joe movies. Also on hand for the writers room will be Hasbro artists to help up draw up concepts and characters. The room is diverse, with a strong concentration of black and women writers, something that is unusual not only in fanboy genre spheres but even in Hollywood circles, in which tentpoles tend to be written by a small circle of scribes. “We first and foremost put together a list of writers who we wanted to be in business with and could be the world-builders that we needed, said Davis. “But we want to be sure that in the room we have diverse perspectives, diverse backgrounds and diverse experiences.” For example, the properties involved in the universe, such as G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K., have traditionally skewed towards the male segment, but Hasbro wants to broaden the focus on the movies, to make them more inclusive. It’s a theme that already exists in the brands, Davis said. “Female empowerment is a central theme through a lot of these properties and one of the reasons we wanted diverse voices,” he said. Said Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey: "Bringing together a writers room of this caliber is a bold step for our partnership, and one that we believe is critical for building these brands into new, successful franchises for the future.” Any news on this? Personally, I don't think the JOEs "play well," with others considering that I've always considered the Joeverse to be grounded and the things they do and tech they use to be very plausible. So with that being said, would I throw the JOEs in with the other Hasbro properties, Hell-to-the-Naw, but I will also say that with the proper writing, director, and casting, this could very much work. After all MCU worked using the C and D list characters. Also, Fred was right again when I said that Paramount and Hasbro were going to try it again with another film.
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09-06-2016, 05:23 PM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
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This look very promising. I'm extremely excited for what the future holds.
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09-06-2016, 05:32 PM | #3 |
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