Transformers and G.I. Joe can be crossing over on the small display in a brand new animated collection. A brand new Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover was teased on the finish of the 2023 live-action film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Each manufacturers are fashionable Hasbro toy traces which have been tailored into a number of animated collection and live-action films in their very own universes.
Per Deadline, Hasbro and Skybound Leisure at the moment are partnering on an animated collection titled Energon Universe, which is predicated on the comedian e book by Skybound’s Robert Kirkman. The collection can be a crossover between the Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Void Rivals universes.
Void Rivals, which follows characters Darak and Solila being compelled collectively amid a conflict between their alien races and marked the start of the Energon Universe comedian, is an authentic universe created by Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici in 2023 after Kirkman acquired the comedian e book publishing rights for Hasbro’s Transformers and G.I. Joe manufacturers.
Lucifer showrunner Joe Henderson would be the showrunner for Energon Universe, which can be in search of consumers within the close to future. In accordance with Deadline, the present can have an grownup sensibility just like Kirkman’s current Prime Video animated collection Invincible.
Whereas that is the crossover undertaking that has come closest to fruition for the reason that tease through the ending of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, it’s unknown if Energon Universe would be the solely forthcoming crossover between the 2 properties.
The live-action crossover film has been in improvement for a while, however progress appears to have been stalled. Most just lately, Rise of the Beasts star Anthony Ramos advised ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley that “there’s lots happening at Paramount,” suggesting that the corporate’s merger with Skydance may need difficult or delayed improvement.
The Paramount Skydance Company was formally fashioned on August 7, 2025 with the merger of Paramount World and Skydance Media.
Paramount has been concerned within the live-action Transformers films from the start, having distributed the unique 2007 installment along with co-producing it with Hasbro, DreamWorks Footage, and di Bonaventura Footage. Nevertheless, there are a number of totally different Transformers tasks in numerous phases of improvement.
This contains an untitled live-action film from Josh Cooley (the director of the 2024 animated prequel Transformers One) and a direct sequel to Rise of the Beasts which will characteristic further components of the G.I. Joe franchise, doubtlessly constructing as much as a correct crossover characteristic.
With so many irons within the fireplace, it’s doable that Paramount might pause improvement on the live-action Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover till Energon Universe can get off the bottom and so they can see if it finds its viewers, proving that there’s a starvation for any such undertaking.