Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner and CFO Deborah Thomas provided updates on their forthcoming products line.
The Global Dispatch reported that the two gave a detailed account of the "Transformer" movie franchise and shared a "temporary" logo for the fifth film during the Hasbro's Investor Day. Fans can now see "Transformers 5" logo via TFW2005.
Comic Book noted that the "Transformers: Age of Extinction" placeholder logo end up being quite similar to the official version. Hence, the same must be so for "Transformer 5."
Additionally, Hasbro also unveiled "Transformers: Micronauts" which is an integration of the Micronauts into the Transformers universe. However, details were not released up to this writing.
"Micronauts was a toyline created in the 1970s by the Japanese company Mego (now owned by Hasbro) that consisted of 3.75-inch-tall action figures. The backstory on them was that the Micronauts came from a small world and when they arrived on Earth they disguised themselves as toys," Comic Book reported. The toyline sparked interest from Marvel's Bill Mantlo, who along with Michael Golden, created them a comic book series that was first published in 1979."
Meanwhile, Akiva Goldsman said in an interview with the IGN India that the direction of the next "Transformers" movies will be more episodic and self-contained while still following a main storyline.
"Our hope is that they are all interconnected and of course standalone, right?" he said. "I think architecturally, the best - I think I believe this - the best serialized storytelling has integrity from start to finish of the episode, whether it be TV or a movie or comic book or novel series or short story series," Akiva said. "You want to be able to satisfy both appetites - which I think is very different from procedural or episodic. You want to feed the instinct for the short-term gratification and the longterm gratification. So we're trying to do both."
"Transformers 5" is set to be released in 2017.
