Editorial: Transformers, and the Problem with Cinematic Universes

It was announced by Deadline on Friday that Paramount, the owners of the ultra-lucrative and critically dismissed Transformers franchise, are going to branch out with additional sequels, and also a string of spinoff movies. The studio is meeting with the series’ director Michael Bay, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, to brainstorm ideas as to how to expand the Transformers series into – all together now…