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 nearly 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 ==
For the full list of the character Click here
== Episodes ==
 	 	
Season 1: Based on Infltration 	Three humans become part of something bigger than an adventure. 	Release Date:
March, 5th
Episode 1: Siege Mode Part 1 	In Arizona, two humans: Hunter O'Nion, and Verity Carlo, become caught in a epic war between two space factions. 	
Episode 2: Siege Mode Part 2 	Verity Carlo's secret device may hold the key to the decepticon's victory. 	
Episode 3: World of Pain 	The Autobots learn the decepticons are planning something big. 	
Episode 4: Reach 	The Decepticons led by Starscream divide and conquer when they learn Verity Carlo has "infiltrated" their underground bunkers. 	
Episode 5: Lock and Load 	Starscream is forced to order a cleanup operation, cause the big boss is here. 	
Episode 6: Purging 	Megatron arrives and begins to wipe his army clean of rats. 	
Episode 7: The Welcome Wagon 	Megatron and Starscream duel, while the autobots finishing obtaining the information from the humans of "Ore 13". 	
Season 2: Based on Escalation 	Megatron has initiated phase two of project: Ascension, meanwhile the autobots are forced to divide and conquer upon learning of a human secret organization aware of their existence.	
Episode 8: The Word is given 	The autobots are forced to say goodbye to their human buddies, or not. 	
Episode 9: Stuck in the middle 	A new shadowly organization is bent creating their own transformer. 	
Episode 10:
The World will forever be changed. 	The Decepticons begin to perfect the ore-13, Megatron tests the Ore-13 in a small military country. 	
Episode 11: Lack of Faith 	Verity and Jimmy want to find Hunter, but the leads may get them in trouble or perhaps worse... 	
Episode 12: There are no real winners 	Ratchet, Verity, Jimmy, and Ironhide, learn of a possible clue to Hunter. 	
Episode 12: Personal Ground Zero 	Optimus and his team learn of Megatron's rampage, now at Brasyna. 	
Episode 13: Bringing the best out of you. 	Optimus and Megatron duel in an epic battle, with only one of them getting out alive, meanwhile a college field trip in Nevada leads to a discovery of the century! 	
Episode 14: "Always bet on the leader" 	Megatron begins a rampage upon the autobot army. 	
Season 3 (2026): Based on Spolights: Optimus Prime, Kup, Galvatron, Arcee, Devastation 	Things get heated in this season, all leading up to powerful adversaries . 	
Episode 16: Trapped, mind, body and soul. 	Deep in space, Prowl is attempting to handle an illegal operation by an autobot named Springer to save an old autobot commander from a very unstable planet. 	
Episode 16: Like a door opening.. 	On a destroyed Cybertron, "an unknown transformer" arrives to retrieve a powerful warrior for unknown reasons. 	
Episode 17: We face Armaddeggon. 	Optimus Prime contacts Omega Supreme to discuss of a possible long thought deceased Prime that Optimus thinks is still alive. 	
Episode 18: We don't like to lose 	Fortress Maximus is forced to activate a loose cannon transformer, to stop the decepticons from taking some new prisoners. 	
Episode 19: Point me in the right direction 	A six changer decepticon called Sixshot is summoned from space to destroy and kill the autobots. 	
Episode 20: Need a hand? 	The autobots Wheeljack, Rodimus learn of a news report that the "Dinobots" are on earth, and could be their way to stop Sixshot. 	
Episode 21: We're talking Scorched Earth. 	The humans learn of Sixshot and the autobots battling in Oregon, and they are ready to raze them both to the ground, meanwhile a team called the terrorcons arrive to earth. 	
Episode 23: Let's skip to the clincher 	Sixshot is called back, meanwhile Wheeljack and Rodimus travel to Nevada for their secret weapon... 	
Episode 24: Us against the world 	The machination begin their grand plan to takeover earth, and defeat Megatron. 	
Episode 26: Earth will have to fend for itself! 	The decepticons and terrorcons duke it out, meanwhile the autobots are forced to abandon earth. 	
Season 3 (2027): Based on elements of Relevation, All Hail Megatron, Heart of Darkness.	The autobots are out in space, only Wheeljack, Hot Rod are left on earth to take care of the decepticons and machinations, 	
Episode 26: Back from the dead 	Space gets weird. 	
Episode 29:
"How much worse can it get? 	On earth, Wheeljack, Hot Rod team up with a hot headed Grimlock. 	
Episode 30:
Be an Island let no one in 	An artifact the magifence is located on Nebula, and the autobots must find it in order to stop the expansion! 	
Episode 31:
Its the Dinobot way. 	Grimlock breaks up the Dinoband and Shockwave is on earth. 	
Episode 32:
Me myself and I 	The expansion begins and Optimus comes to face to face with his "predecessor and idol". 	
Episode 33:
You merit an untidy death 	The leader of the expansion reveals his nefarious plan. 	
Episode 34: The buck stops here 	Grimlock, Hot Rod, Wheeljack and Hunter find the machination and their leader. 	
Episode 35:
Such a rarity. 	In the aftermath of Machination's defeat and the avertion of the Expansion, the autobots led by Optimus Prime return to earth to stop Megatron. 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	 	
Season 4 (2027): Based on All Hail Megatron. 	 	
 
== Casting ==
==== 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 2021, 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. 
Following the success of Season 2, 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 2023 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.
== Notes ==
The Series is loosely based on the 15 year running IDW series, which ran from 2005 to 2018 with several original stories.
The first season and the next ones would adapt the first IDW series written by famous writer Simon Furman.
Unlike in most shows, Soundwave does not appear in the first season much like past shows.
The episodes would run for roughly 20 minutes.
The episodes titles are named after quotes and dialogues from the comic issue number, this idea was similar amazon prime's Invinicble series which also named their episodes after the comic issue.
== 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)