Three years after their last live-action adventure, the Transformers are headed back to the big screen. Fresh from their merger with Skydance, and probably on the verge of another with Warner Bros, the studio is pulling one of their most successful franchises out of statis lock. While details about the new film are still being kept under wraps, we now know who’ll be writing it.
According to reports, Jason Fuchs will pen the script for the latest clash between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Fuchs has written the scripts for films like Ice Age: Continental Drift, Pan, and Argylle: he’s also one of the creators and showrunners of the HBO horror hit It: Welcome to Derry. The film is said to be the next entry in the live-action franchise; while Michael Bay is said to be producing, there’s no word if he plans to return to the director’s chair for what would be his sixth Transformers movie. There’s also no indication if this is the mooted G.I. Joe–Transformers crossover movie that was teased at the end of 2023’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts; Chris Hemsworth was reported to be starring in that film in 2024, but no further news about it has emerged.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
The Matrix
Mad Max
Blade Runner
Dune
Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
What Are the ‘Transformers’ Movies About?
Based on the long-running series of toys, cartoons, and comic books first released by Hasbro in 1984, the films center around the centuries-spanning civil war between two factions of living robots from the planet Cybertron: the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), and the nefarious Decepticons, ruled by Megatron (Hugo Weaving, and later Frank Welker). In the first three films (Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, and Dark of the Moon), the Autobots ally themselves with the US military and human teenager Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf); following the events of the third film, when Chicago is largely destroyed in a pitched battle, the Autobots find themselves fugitives, and ally themselves with inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) for the fourth and fifth films (Age of Extinction and The Last Knight). The sixth movie in the franchise, Bumblebee, went back to the 1980s, and partnered the titular Autobot with teenager Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld); the seventh, Rise of the Beasts, was another prequel, and incorporated the mythos of the 1990s series Beast Wars.
The Transformers’ most recent big-screen outing was Transformers One, an animated prequel that revealed the origin of the conflict between Optimus Prime and Megatron. Despite strong reviews, the film disappointed at the box office.
A new Transformers movie is in the works, with Jason Fuchs writing the script; no release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
