Megatron: The Movie

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 OK, so I've done a bunch of fake Star Wars movie ideas.  Here's another idea, a Transformers idea.  Disney made villain-centric movies about Maleficent and Cruella and WB made a movie about the Joker, so why not make a movie about Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons?

The idea would borrow a lot from IDW comics in the 2000s-2010s, Transformers Prime, and the War for Cybertron cartoon on Netflix.  It's sort of a Gladiator/Spartacus thing--with Transformers! 

Long, long ago on Cybertron, the Autobots or some other faction ruled the whole planet.  Megatron was created as a mining machine and put to work in the mines.  But he didn't want to toil away in mines all the time just because he turned into a mining machine.  Why shouldn't he be able to do what he wants?  Freedom is the right of all sentient beings--oh wait, that's the other guy's thing.

He leads a rebellion in the mines but it fails.  He's taken to the gladiator pits, where the leaders figure he'll die.  But he doesn't.  Instead he's the greatest champion Cybertron has ever known!  This gives him fame and followers and lets him start getting his message out.

And so eventually he leads a second rebellion.  This one is more successful and starts the whole Cybertron civil war thing.  Near the end he kills some leader guy who put him in the gladiator pits and takes the dude's fusion cannon.

We'd probably see Orion Pax (aka Optimus Prime) and Bumblebee and other popular characters and of course Decepticons like Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave.  Paramount probably wouldn't go for it because it's not on Earth and so we can't cast stupid annoying humans in it. Wah, wah, wah. [eye roll]

You could do a framing device with humans set in modern day and Optimus or someone is telling them about Megatron.  Maybe that would placate Paramount?