The Transformers (2024)

The Transformers is an action animated television series, targeted for teenagers and adults. Based on the IDW Comics series of the same name written by various veteran writers like Simon Furman, John Barber, James Robert and Ryan Ottley, the series adapts stories from of the The Transformers IDW comics that ran from 2005 to 2018.

The series is proposed to be released in 2023 or 2024 in time for the transformers 40th anniversary franchise and it will premiere on Dreamworks Video.

Synopsis
In this expansive series of the alien robotic fighters known as transformers, experience tons of mysteries, battles, wars, lessons, burdens will emerge, some good, and most bad.

Characters
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Autobots from Season 1 to 5
Dave Fennoy as Optimus Prime

James Arnold Taylor as Bumblebee

Lennie James as Jazz

Michael Douglas as Ratchet

James Arnold Taylor as Sunstreaker

Walter Goggins as Prowl

Trailbreaker

Keith Szarabajka as Ironhide

Will Wheaton as Wheeljack

Andy Samberg as Rodimus

Decepticons

Corey Burton as Megatron

Charlie Alder as Starscream

Bejamin Diskin as Thundercracker

Troy Baker as Skywarp

Michael Rosenbaum as Blitzwing

James Remar as Astrotrain

Cam Clarke as Runabout and Runamuck

Humans

Jenna Ortega as Verity Carlo

Jack Quaid as Hunter O'nion

Lucas Grabeel as Jimmy Pink

Development
Development of the series began in 2019 to 2022, following the success of various other comic book shows like Invinicble, The Boys, The Walking Dead and Watchmen and others, where Hasbro has decided to make this series one of the first in the 2020s series to be more darker and expressive, and more to a older audience not following suite of the past 3 decades of transformers series aiming for children under 6 and up. The series will air around the mid 2020s.

The producers of the series were able to hire several writers of the comics such as, Simon Furman, John Barber and Shane Mcarthy to write the first five seasons although the writers were told to make several changes to the story.

The series is told to adapt several of the series phase 1's original comic book titles like, Infiltration, Escalation, Devastation, Maximum Dinobots, Megatron Origin, All Hail Megatron, Spotlight series, and The Transformers series (2009), that all were released from 2005 to 2011 for roughly 2 to 7 seasons. Currently it is unknown if the writers or producers want to move beyond into modern well received titles such as More than Meets the Eye, Robots In Disguise, Combiner Wars, Titans Return, that existed in the 2010s.

However around 2022, the developers confirmed there are plans to adapt, Dark Cybertron, Revelation, and Unicron within the series but to serve as the seasonal finales, or even follow up movies. Recently writers have stated they want to implement the Combiner Wars story into a season as a way to bring Devastator, Menasor or Superion within the series although it is unknown if Monconstructor a non affiliated combiner will brought into the series.

Relevation is confirmed to be adapted either in season 3 or a film and Nova Prime is confirmed to be the next villian but are unsure how they will adapt Maximum Dinobots if one is either or, as Hasbro wanted to focus more on Relevation.

In 2025, Several spinoffs have been confirmed with Shockwave, Ironhide, the Dinobots, and many other obscure characters.

Because Optimus Prime is a well received character, the series will attempting a redeveloping his character as the developers didn't want to see Prime as a police officer but a member of the senate or elite guard.

In September of 2024, two direct specials for Megatron, the war and how Cybertron was abandoned are in development they will be adapted into 50 or 80 minute films and will air around late 2025.

Hasbro confirmed that GI Joe and ROM will not appear in the 2024 series, but assured that "Skywatch" (who also appeared in the IDW comics) is similar to GI Joe except they are like S.H.I.E.L.D, Sector 7 and NASA.

Around 2023, the creators had came to hasbro and it has been decided to make additional spinoffs to the IDW series, to not just fill the gaps with several seasons of the current show but to explore various storylines, characters in future seasons.

Several of the creators admitted if they can get to a fourth or fifth season, if no cancellation is set, they wanted to make one of the seasons loosely based on the All Hail Megatron comic story that was released in 2008. The story featured a story of the decepticons finally winning and ruling the United States with an iron hand. The art was similar to the original transformer cartoon, although there are some changes to it they like to explore, such as showing the origins to combiners, exploring the matrix, and more of the decepticons massacring various cities, a different way for the decepticons to win rather than have decepticons take the human ally of the autobots in the comic, as well as killing off some decepticons, because one of the producers admitted that most of the decepticons that weren't Megatron, Soundwave, Seekers and Constructicons didn't have more major purposes in comic stories, but they are not sure if most of the changes will get past the censorship.

This also may include The Transformers 2009, because one particular story featured several of the autobot and decepticon teams serving as allies with several different miltary countries.

The writers also admitted several characters such as Arcee, Sunstreaker, Horribull, Ironhide, may be toned down, but following some themes in Transformers Earthspark, Arcee's gender change storyline may proceed but albeit several changes.

In 2026, after season 4, a spinoff series called the Wreckers is confirmed to be in development, Jenna Ortega will reprise her as Verity Carlo in the series.

Changes to the series
TBA

Spinoff/Specials
The Transformers Origins: Megatron the Destroyer (2025)

The Transformers: Origins: Stormbringer (2026)

The Transformers Origins: Shockwave: Servant of Logic (2027)

The Transformers: Wreckers (TBA)

The Transformers: Dark World (TBA)

The Transformers: Expansion of the Past (TBA)