G.I.Joe/Transformers Movie Not Out of the Question, Says Producer

With G.I. Joe: Retaliation opening big and looking to clear $40 to $50 million at the domestic box office this weekend, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, who handles both G.I. Joe and the Transformers for Hasbro, says that he would be open to the possibility of a G.I. Joe/Transformers crossover movie--provided they could find a script that made sense and didn't feel like a cheap gimmick. "I guess it's possible. I don't know. I think I probably at this moment, I resist it. I don't know necessarily why, but I just think there's so much that's so rich in the mythologies that I don't think they need to draw from the other," Di Bonaventura told CinemaBlend. "I think, I didn't rule it out for me and I think those things have somehow for me, sort of in the past, they made me feel like a little bit cynical exercises in just drawing money out of something. It's not to say you couldn't do it well, but both these properties have such rich mythologies with so many characters, that you could go a lot of movies before you start running out of ideas of what to do. But it's not to say, if we found the right… I'd hate to set out to do that, but if I heard a story where we went, 'Oh my God…,' I could see a story right now about machination, machination of war and that could lead you sort of intrinsically to a Transformer. I think in general, Marvel is doing it within their own universe, right? And so it doesn't feel gimmicky in that way. I think that's what I would really try to resist." Of course, if it were to happen it would likely be years down the road; Michael Bay reportedly has a soft outline in place for a second Transformers trilogy that will kick off with the about-to-start-production Transformers 4, and by then the humans of G.I. Joe might be too old to do it without a reboot.