Transformers: Shattered Glass (Netflix Limited Series)

Transformers: Shattered Glass is an upcoming adult animated series produced by Hasbro and Rooster Teeth based on the Shattered Glass Collection toyline and accompanying IDW Publishing comic book series, with animation done by Tatsunoko Productions (previously involved with the Prime Wars Trilogy cartoon for Machinima) and voice production by Horseless Cowboy. F.J. DeSanto acts as the series showrunner, a role he previously held for the Prime Wars Trilogy web series and War for Cybertron Trilogy series, and currently does for Transformers Legacy as well. The series is written by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, creators of American Horror Story, with War for Cybertron writers Gavin Hignight, Tim Sheridan and Mae Catt serving as part of the writers room as well.

The story of Shattered Glass is a spin-off to War For Cybertron and Legacy, taking place in a reverse-polarity universe where the Autobots are evil and the Decepticons are good. “Shards” is a story set years after the end of the Great War, where an Autobot seeker named Blurr discovers a dangerous secret that ignites a new confrontation between the power-hungry Autobot autocrats and the freedom-fighting Decepticon laborers.

The series is set to premiere on Netflix in fall 2023.

Premise
For eons, the Autobots and Decepticons have battled for supremacy, a struggle that took them from Cybertron to Earth and back before the Autobots finally triumphed. In this universe, however, the Autobot are the villains: ruthless, freedom-hating autocrats, the tyrannical Optimus Prime and his minions have destroyed Earth and conquered Cybertron, and nearly crushed the heroic Decepticon freedom fighters under their heel. Their takeover has not been smooth, however, as Prime's followers Goldbug and Prowl have rebelled against their leader and seized territories and soldiers of their own. Amidst these three-way turf wars and border skirmishes, the task of mopping up the Decepticons falls to the bodyscrappers: elite bounty hunters who track down, round up, and junk Decepticon fugitives. And among the bodyscrappers, there are few as efficient or cruel as Blurr—an adrenaline junkie forever chasing his next high, he delights in going after dangerous Decepticons and other and high-risk targets, playing with his prey before finally going in for the kill. But when he's tasked with hunting down Megatron's second in command, Starscream, Blurr would come to suspect that Megatron, presumed dead since the end of the war, is actually alive...and preparing to take back Cybertron in the name of freedom.