Paramount and F. Gary Gray have teamed up with Hasbro to develop to direct MASK.

With the Transformers Universe expanding into origin films like the upcoming Bumblebee movie. Let’s not forget last year it was revealed that Transformers writers have outlined 14 more stories set in the Transformers universe. Read on to get all the details on the upcoming MASK live action franchise…

This makes perfect sense for Paramount, F. Gary Gray, and Hasbro to start developing a new franchise about MASK, an acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand.

CelebNMovies247.com has received word via Deadline who reported the news first that the live action MASK film will be built based on the ’80s Kenner action figures and the animated series.

If you recall the animated series, MASK a task force led by Matt Trakker whose goal is to take out the criminal organization VENOM.

Deadline reports:

The film will be produced by Hasbro, and Gray. They will move quickly to set a writer to hatch a contemporary subculture movie with a youth empowerment angle.

Gray is coming off $1.2 billion global grossing The Fate of the Furious and Straight Outta Compton, and he is in pre-production on the untitled Men in Black reboot for Sony Pictures that will star Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson.

That film, produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and exec produced by Steven Spielberg, begins production in June for May 17, 2019 release. Gray sparked to MASK because it is a vintage property that could be revamped and have something to say to a contemporary audience.

For Paramount, it is exactly the kind of franchise swing that the rebuilding studio needs.