{"id":15483,"date":"2018-01-21T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=15483"},"modified":"2018-01-21T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:10:13","slug":"the-rom-m-a-s-k-films-are-dead-dark-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-rom-m-a-s-k-films-are-dead-dark-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"The “ROM” & “M.A.S.K.” Films Are Dead? – Dark Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Two years ago Paramount announced plans for a joint cinematic universe featuring multiple franchises based on Hasbro Toys including \u201cG.I. Joe,\u201d \u201cM.A.S.K.,\u201d \u201cVisionairies,\u201d \u201cROM: Spaceknight\u201d and \u201cMicronauts\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the time a high profile writer\u2019s room was assembled featuring the likes of Michael Chabon, Brian K. Vaughan, Akiva Goldsman, Joe Robert Cole, Nicole Perlman and the recently announced \u201cThe Flash\u201d directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.<\/p>\n

Since then however? Nothing has really resulted from the endeavour. Speaking about their newest film \u201cGame Night,\u201d Daley and Goldstein tell IGN about what happened and how at least two of the properties \u2013 \u201cROM\u201d and \u201cM.A.S.K.\u201d \u2013 are effectively dead:<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are probably not likely to see the light of day, unless they\u2019re moving on separate from us. It\u2019s a funny thing. We spent three weeks in a room with a lot of talented writers. We broke eleven or so movies and, I don\u2019t know. It just kind of went into the vortex. There\u2019s been some leadership changes at Paramount, so it\u2019s hard to say. Nobody\u2019s contacted us about those.<\/p>\n

It was fun. It was a fun challenge to take these properties that were so barebones in any kind of a narrative and create a movie around them. You know, these little cheap, plastic things, and to give them a backstory was an exciting challenge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The movies were to be produced by Brian Goldner, Stephen Davis and Josh Feldman. For now, Paramount seems to be sticking only with its \u201cTransformers\u201d franchise and has the first spin-off of that series, \u201cBumblebee,\u201d hitting in December.<\/p>\n

Source: The “ROM” & “M.A.S.K.” Films Are Dead? – Dark Horizons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago Paramount announced plans for a joint cinematic universe featuring multiple franchises based on Hasbro Toys including \u201cG.I. Joe,\u201d \u201cM.A.S.K.,\u201d \u201cVisionairies,\u201d \u201cROM: Spaceknight\u201d and \u201cMicronauts\u201d. At the time a high profile writer\u2019s room was assembled featuring the likes of Michael Chabon, Brian K. Vaughan, Akiva Goldsman, Joe Robert Cole, Nicole Perlman and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-41J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21671,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/panelcast-episode-291\/","url_meta":{"origin":15483,"position":0},"title":"PanelCast Episode #291","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"February 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the new format as the unboxings from AJ's Side Panel get added to the PanelCast. 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