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G.I. JOE 3 Director Says A Script For A TRANSFORMERS Crossover Has Been Written |
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Thursday, 19 January 2017 09:01 |
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Speaking to Collider to promote Vin Diesel's xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, director D.J. Caruso, who was hired to direct G.I. Joe 3 back in January 2015, has confirmed that the initial script for the "threequel" called for something fans have been requesting for years - a crossover with the Transformers franchise. However, two things happened; Paramount decided to form a writer's room to develop ideas, in a repeat of the process used to hammer out the script for Transformers: The Last Knight. The other hang-up, is that Michael Bay got wind of the idea and apparently vetoed it.
"Well yeah but they’re not ready to do [G.I. Joe meets Transformers] yet. That’s exactly what they should do but they’re not ready to do that because in fact the script that I was developing, the two worlds sort of collided at the end and when they read it they were like, ‘We’re not ready to do this yet.’… They will eventually collide Read more: |
