GI Joe 3 was supposed to be a Transformers crossover

The initial plans for GI Joe 3 were a bit... strange. Apparently the director D.J. Caruso was attached to direct the film, but he moved on to make XXX: Return of Xander Cage, and Caruso and Michael Bay were allegedly planning to create a crossover film with Transformers. While speaking with American site Collider, Caruso told the outlet he had met with the studio and Dwayne Johnson a couple of times to figure out the future of the franchise, and apparently Paramount weren't really ready to make a crossover just yet.

"They're not ready to do G.I. Joe meets Transformers yet," Caruso explained. "That's exactly what they should do, but they're not ready to do that because, in fact, the script that I was developing, the two worlds sort of collided at the end, and when they read it they were like, 'We're not ready to do this yet.' They will eventually collide those two worlds, and it's probably when Mr. Bay decides he's done with Transformers."

Caruso continues by stating the following: "It came close to happening, but I think what the studio was trying to do was reassess it and so now they're back to the drawing board, and we'll be talking again about it. It's a valuable franchise, it's not that they didn't get it right, they just wanna really get it right and see if they can push it to the next level."

Would you have liked to see this crossover?