Dominique Fishback to star opposite Anthony Ramos in new Transformers film
Deadline is reporting that following her breakout role in the Oscar Best Picture-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah, Dominique Fishback is in final negotiations to co-star with Anthony Ramos in a Transformers movie for Paramount, eOne and Hasbro that has Steven Caple Jr directing. The film is bowing on June 24, 2022.
Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters are writing based off a script by Joby Harold. Skydance is co-financing and executive producing. New Republic Pictures is also a co-financing partner.
Transformers has been one of Paramount’s biggest draws since the franchise was launched in 2007, grossing more than $4 billion worldwide over five films. Following the release of 2017’s Transformers: The Last Knight, director Michael Bay parted ways with the series to focus on new original material. After that, the studio decided to do a full revamp of the property, starting with a writers room that would develop multiple ways to pursue a new film, leading to 2018’s Bumblebee.
Fishback was recently BAFTA-nominated role in Judas as Deborah Johnson, the writer, activist and fiancée of Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Besides Transformers, Fishback is also set to co-star with Samuel L. Jackson in the Apple series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, which shoots later this year. She is also starring in Subverted, which she will also exec produce with Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner.
She also was recently seen opposite Foxx in Netflix’s Project Power.