On the heels of landing the highly-coveted director’s chair of Warner Bros. and DC’s Blue Beetle feature project, Angel Manuel Soto is continuing to add new exciting projects to his dance card as Paramount has tapped him to helm a new Transformers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While plot details are currently unknown on the film, which is being penned by Marco Ramirez (The Twilight Zone, Orange is the New Black), sources report that the project is being developed as a story separate from the studio’s mainline film franchise that began in 2007.
In addition, Scream reboot scribe James Vanderbilt has penned the script for a Transformers: Beast Wars project and the studio has slated one of the projects for a June 24, 2022 release, though it’s currently unclear which project.
Soto broke out with his teen drama Charm City Kings, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year to rave reviews from critics and debuted on HBO Max this past October, and is now set to helm the DC Extended Universe debut of Blue Beetle at WB.