The toy franchise by Hasbro turned into one of the most renowned film franchises in the world. Michael Bay laid the foundation of the Transformers franchise, and its continued success at the box office led Paramount to continue producing and distributing films even without Bay.
An exclusive report from The Wrap has revealed that Paramount wants Jason Fuchs Transformers movie. The distributor has tapped Fuchs, writer of It: Welcome to Derry (2025) and Wonder Woman (2017), to pen an untitled Transformers script.
No director, plot details, or release date have been officially announced yet. Having said that, it is only known that the new film will be a continuation of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), which was directed by Steven Caple Jr., but it is not finalized yet whether he will be returning for the new film.
How will the Jason Fuchs Transformers movie change the franchise?
Before delving deeper into the conversation of how Fuchs will impact the Transformers franchise, let’s have a look at how it has been performing over the years:
| Directors | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score | |
| Transformers (2007) | Michael Bay | 7.1 | 57% |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | Michael Bay | 6 | 19% |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) | Michael Bay | 6.2 | 35% |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) | Michael Bay | 5.6 | 18% |
| Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) | Michael Bay | 5.2 | 16% |
| Bumblebee (2018) | Travis Knight | 6.7 | 91% |
| Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) | Steven Caple Jr. | 6 | 51% |
It is evident that the Transformers films directed by Michael Bay always faced challenges, despite the 2007 original live-action film still being considered the best so far. As soon as Travis Knight stepped in with a spin-off based on the beloved yellow Autobot, Bumblebee, which was a soft reboot attempt for the franchise and a diversion from the continuing complicated storyline of earlier films, the franchise aimed for a more character-driven direction with Bumblebee, which the people loved.
As soon as the director was changed again in 2023, the latest Transformers film managed to regain its reputation at the box office. The purpose here is not to undermine Michael Bay’s vision, though his films delivered scale and spectacle, but it often struggled with critical reception and narrative clarity.
And this is the one challenge the Transformers franchise faces: the constant course correction. The Last Knight attempted to expand the mythology, Rise of the Beasts introduced new factions and future possibilities, while Bumblebee was a whole new direction focused on characters only.
As a result, the installments felt like transitional chapters rather than destination movies, which added to the lore complexity and franchise muddleness. Audiences already know Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and the stage has been set expansively with different stories with strong world-building.
Enter Fuchs; he is not unfamiliar with the Transformers‘ territory. His expertise with balancing world-building and character-focused storytelling, as seen in It: Welcome to Derry, puts him in a favorable position to prove why the direction matters rather than carving a new direction all over again.
Since the new Transformers film will be a continuation of Rise of the Beasts, which ended with Autobots, Maximals, and human allies defeating Scrouge and destroying the Transwarp Key needed to summon Unicron, the planet-eating villain, to Earth, the story could take things forward from the end-credits scene.
The end credits scene showed the human protagonist, Noah (played by Anthony Ramos), an ex-military electronics expert and former soldier from Brooklyn, going to a job interview for a security guard position. The interviewer, Agent Burke (Michael Kelly), knows about his alien encounters and hands Noah his business card. Noah is invited to the high-tech headquarters behind Burke’s office, which implies G.I. Joe recruits him.
Hiring a writer like Fuchs indicates that Paramount may finally be committing to one roadmap. His story might show Noah’s evolution as the central bridge between humans and Transformers. He could explore the consequences of extraterrestrial warfare and how human agencies respond when alien technology becomes an ongoing global concern. He could take Noah’s story deeper within G.I. Joe, with a more structured shared-universe approach, something the franchise has tried before but never fully stabilized.
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