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Hollywood Transformers Movie in the Works
Date: 11/4/2004
Variety reports (subscription required) that Tom DeSanto (executive producer of the X-Men movies) wrote the original story for the upcoming Transformers live-action movie, and that John Rogers (Writer for Catwoman) will be adapting the story into a screenplay.

Tom DeSanto, along with X-Men co-executive producer Don Murphy and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, is also producing the movie.

The movie, due out in summer 2006, is being jointly produced by DreamWorks and Paramount, under the executive-production of Steven Spielberg.

According to Variety, the movie is likely to be a "Franchise Property."
Source: Anime News Network