EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in Paramount Footage’ untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover film, Deadline has discovered, based mostly on the road of Hasbro toys.
Upon finaling the deal, it will put the Melrose Ave. lot again in enterprise with Hemsworth who’s already starring in Paramount Animation/Hasbro’s Transformers One which hits theaters on Sept. 20, 2024. That film was one of many highest examined Paramount Animation titles ever.
The seeds had been planted for a crossover film between the 2 mega Eighties Hasbro manufacturers at within the epilogue of Steven Caple Jr.’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts final summer time, a sequel which revived the robots in disguise on the large display with a $439M — greater than Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future‘s $384M worldwide take. The truth is, G.I. Joe and Transformers intermingled in famed Marvel comedian ebook again within the Eighties.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto & Don Murphy are producing. Steven Spielberg and Hasbro Leisure are EPs.
Hemsworth is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker.
The Australian actor broke via to U.S. audiences as Thor within the Marvel Studios films together with the second highest grossing film of all-time, the Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Endgame with $2.8 billion. Hemsworth teamed up with the Russo Brothers but once more for the Netflix unique movie Extraction making historical past for the streaming service. Bringing in 99 million viewers inside the first 4 weeks alone, the movie grew to become essentially the most watched unique film the streaming service had ever seen. Hemsworth reprised his position as mercenary Tyler Rake in Extraction 2, which the actor’s multiplatform manufacturing firm Wild State produced. Hemsworth additionally teamed up with Darren Aronofsky for the Disney+ Unique sequence from Nationwide Geographic Limitless With Chris Hemsworth. The six-episode season was additionally a part of Hemsworth’s first look deal via Wild State. The second season not too long ago wrapped manufacturing. Hemsworth at the moment stars as Dementus in George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga which gained over Rotten Tomatoes critics at 90% licensed recent and 90% with audiences. Deadline’s Chief Movie Critic Pete Hammond heralded that for Hemsworth, the position is “the very best efficiency of his profession,” including “Hemsworth, using a definite accent and look, locks into this position with abandon and steals the image. He immediately turns into one of many nice villains, advanced and endlessly watchable and charismatic like all the most misguided leaders.”