Warning: This article contains spoilers forTransformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Autobots) to join the Joes' cause.
Caple, speaking with EW separately, confirms he’s deep into developing theRise of the Beastssequel.
Paramount is planning a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover.Paramount (2)
Noah heads to a warehouse where he meets Agent Burke.
It soon becomes dump the job interview is a front for something much bigger.
Burke has heard all about Noah’s world-saving antics with the Autobots, Maximals, andDominique Fishback’s Elena.
Michael Kelly makes a surprise appearance in ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ to set up a G.I. Joe crossover.Paramount
Caple didn’t want this to be just a post-credits scene, whichRise of the Beastsdoes have.
“They seemed to kind of always basically lose,” Caple says, laughing.
Then he remembered the comics.
The Transformers and G.I.
Joes already crossed over in a limited comic book series published by Marvel in 1987.
So Caple pitched Di Bonaventura on the idea.
The producer says they had been trying to merge these two sets of characters together for some time.
They were just looking for the right moment.
Joes,' " he recalls.
“We were like, ‘That’s a great idea for the future.
In two or three movies, we should do that.’
Then it sort of got lost along the way a bit.”
It took Caple and the team about two years to launch the idea up the flagpole.
(Bay produces the current run of Transformers movies after directing the first five.)
“They have to ask questions like: Is there ever gonna be a G.I.
Is it always gonna be underneathTransformers?”
Joe movie franchise, and it didn’t do so hot in ticket sales.
Joe characters that we’re most excited about, and then we’ll figure out the journey."
Everything had to be top secret.
According to Caple, Kelly didn’t even know the full extent of his role.
The actor had signed on to the project purely from his excitement over Transformers.
There was one version of the script that mentioned the G.I.
“That way no one could leak the script,” Caple notes.
The filmmaker didn’t give Kelly the final script until he was on set.
“He just freaked out,” the director recalls.
“He was pacing in his trailer going back and forth.
Then he called his agent and he was like, ‘Dude, this is G.I.
Then they’re calling the studio, like, ‘Is this real?
Is the director playing a prank on my client?’
Joe, so audiences in test screenings wouldn’t know the true reveal.
There was only one copy of the G.I.
Joe business card, and Caple took that himself from set for safe keeping.
“I was like, ‘I’m taking this.
I don’t want this to be found on the floor,'” he says.
“I actually didn’t have them printed out until that day [on set].
We were very cautious of it, man.
We were really trying to be as secretive as possible.”
Joe crossover will take audiences beyond Earth.
“I think it’s really cool that there are other planets out there with Transformers.
“I was pulling from these Japanese cartoons where there’s Transformers on every other planet.
I just feel like we’ve been on Earth for a very long time.
So there might be something interesting to explore there, maybe taking this war and battle somewhere else.”
It would certainly explain the alien spaceship in Burke’s bunker.
Speaking of, Burke might not even be the real name of Kelly’s character.
“That’s what we’re gonna be playing with in the future,” the filmmaker says.
“But as of right now, it’s Agent Burke.
It’s a little generic, and it’s done on purpose a bit.
It’s all part of the facade.
He might grow into someone else.
I’m still trying to figure out what to do exactly with that character.
Here’s hoping it doesn’t take another two years of running concepts up the flagpole.
Transformers: Rise of the Beastsis now playing in theaters.
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