‘Transformers’ Origin Story Coming to Netflix as Animated Series in 2020

[Tuskin]

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/transformers-origin-story-netflix-animated-series-2020-1203140893/?fbclid=IwAR1ba2hetdEkguQPKdlD0eAcGpb-C_vIjS5kohk-FKgYrWFyBDdbeVTstg8

Netflix and Hasbro have partnered with Rooster Teeth to bring “Transformers: War for Cybertron” — telling the origin story of the Transformers universe — to the global streaming service in an original series set to launch in 2020.
The producers promise that the series will feature a “new animation look and style” that shows the alien robots as they’ve never been seen before. Rooster Teeth, a unit of WarnerMedia’s Otter Media group, will produce the series for Netflix and Polygon Pictures will serve as the animation studio.
“Transformers” veteran FJ DeSanto (“Transformers: Titans Return,” “Transformers: Power of the Primes”) will serve as showrunner with several contributing writers, including George Krstic (“Megas XLR”), Gavin Hignight (“Transformers: Cyberverse”) and Brandon Easton (“Agent Carter,” “Transformers: Rescue Bots”).

[redBadger]

Rooster Teeth sure has come along way since the original Red vs Blue stuff they've done, damn.

[Tuskin]

It's also probably because Rooster Teeth has absorbed some of Machinima's old properties since their parent company bought them. Machinma worked on the War for Cybertron trilogy.

But I agree, they really have come far. This is really impressive.

[Breadman]

Make it in the style of Seasons 1-5 of RvB or I'm not interested

[Admiraltyphoon]

I guess they really are focusing on that new brand synergy. All of their planned/ newly-released stuff has the same origins: the War for Cybertron.
-Bumblebee Movie starts with WfC
-The current new Generations line is focusing on WfC as the first part of a trilogy
-A planned IDW Comic series reboot that will start in March/April with pre-WfC
-and now this series as well.

There was also news of the games studio Certain Affinity working on a new TF videogame - I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same setting.

[maddogsamurai]

Polygon Pictures will be the animators

Yes sir

Showrunners from the shitty Machinima series will help make it.
Oh nooooo. Such a double edged sword. On one hand, Polygon animated Transformers: Prime and that was the fucking best since Beast Wars. On the other hand, the guys who claimed that the Prime Wars series was going to be the best since Game of Thrones is in on it.

I really do hope it becomes good. WFC is a great video game and the new toy line is amazing.

Someone is doing actual machinima work on the Fall of Cybertron game and they get close to five million views per video.
I was offered to join but I regret turning them down.