Hollywood Reporter spoke with Paramount to learn more about the upcoming three Transformers Live Action Movies. During the conversation, it was revealed that The Bumblebee Movie will be a lower budget movie when compared to other movies of the Transformers Franchise (no doubt inspired by the lower budgeted Deadpool movie).
“There are characters in the Transformers universe that can be and should be made into their own movies,” Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey told The Hollywood Reporter. “We will make the first movie with Michael and go right into a Bumblebee movie, which will be at a lower cost.”
Hollywood Reporter also noted the confusion made by two different sources with regards to the news of upcoming three movies. During the Hasbro Toy Fair 2016 Investor Event, it was revealed that The Bumblebee Movie will be a spin-off between Transformers 5 and 6. However, subsequent press release by Paramount and the announcement on Hasbro Twitter stated that Transformers 6 will be The Bumblebee Movie and there will be Transformers 7.
“Paramount will sandwich a Bumblebee movie between its next two Transformers pics. The three films will roll out in successive summers beginning with a Michael Bay-helmed Transformers 5 on June 23, 2017, followed by the Bumblebee spinoff June 8, 2018. Another stand-alone will arrive June 28, 2019. The studio announced the dates for the three movies Feb. 12 but was vague about whether or not the trio would include a spinoff, simply calling the films Transformers 5, 6 and 7.”
The article also stated that a new director may be involved with the spin-off movie.
“We’ve brought in a pretty strong writing staff run by Akiva Goldsman, and they have put together eight or nine interesting stories,” said Grey. “So, between that group and Steven Spielberg’s guidance on a story level, these characters are a big business for us to pursue.”
Kranix2k
Which is why I could only shake my head when I saw its a full feature film and not some direct-to-DVD release. Filling up the time allotted for a screen film about Bumblebee will be about as interesting as a full length feature film about Clarice Starling before she met Hannibal Lecter.
Shepard Prime
I hope Transformers doesn't go the route that SW initially is going which is focusing on a reletively small part of their extensive timeline/history.
Much how like I'd love a SW movie that doesn't take place anywhere in-between PM and TFA (The Force Awakens not Transformers Animated ) and/or have anything to do with a Skywalker and associates, I'd love a TF movie that took place on Cybertron and somewhere in their past. Just saying, TFs has such a vast amount of characters and concepts to work with that even after 4 movies, they're still really scratching the surface on material.
All that said, if they are hellbent on doing a BB movie, if it's along the lines of RiD I can go with that.
Speaking of, I hope for the next iteration of a TF cartoon series that they keep with the current animation style. I'm not talking about designs but the actual animation style. I prefer the current style over the CG rendered Prime.
Livingdeaddan
hmm.. but Bay directing yet a 5th TF movie is proof Satan exists, and apparently one can't exist without the other… so I dont know what to think!
rapid_fire
I think I remember readin they had to use the entire rendering farm for Transformers and they were stlil struggling to complete the movies.
TF10
It seems kids like bumblebee,but most of us don't.
Unless they have a good story.
Autobot Burnout
Check the news postings for the promotional bit spoken by the guy – should still be relatively recent in the TFW newsfeed.
But yeah, he literally just describes 'Bee as just being a mute Camaro, essentially.
Age of Extinction was also longer and had less actual transforming sequences (let alone legitimate Decepticons).
Sure, overall there may have been more robot screentime in AoE…but most of it was on Autobots. In the first film, each Decepticon gets their own feature scene (Blackout stomping all over SOCCENT, Frenzy on Air Force One, Barricade "in-terror-gation", Bonecrusher vs Prime, Brawl blowing up a whole city street, Starscream attacking…pretty much everything, and of course Megatron smashing his way out of Hoover Dam).
I really don't give a damn about Autobots, they're pointless without their archtypical counterpart Decepticons to fight and look awesome while doing it. And actually transform.
From the way I saw it, Cybertron essentially imploded on itself after the control pillar was destroyed, due to being trapped inside a space-time wormhole thing.
Zhadow
This is a MUST.
SouthtownKid
Destroyed? I thought it was just prevented from being teleported. Anyway, "destroyed" is relative. It can always be restored, rebuilt, reformatted, or pulled out of a previous point in the timestream or something. These movies are science fiction, with very very very little emphasis placed on the 'science' part. The writers can do (and DO do) whatever they want at any given moment, with minimal concern as to anything that's happened before.
Shizuka
Well compare robot screen time in Transformers to Age of Extinction. The first film had a budget of $150mil and the latter was between $290mil and $350mil.
Ash from Carolina
Bumblebee's voice problem has even better plot armor than Bumblebee. Nothing in the Transformers universe is powerful enough to free us from the annoying way he communicates.
But look on the bright side part of being lower budget is they don't have to hire a voice actor
Appleseed
I think the budget is around 100-150 million, CGI for vehicle complicated part is quite expensive, but I think is a good decision, at least won't have too much unknown robots.We can expected more screen time on the few specified characters.
Livingdeaddan
is that canon?
Autobot Burnout
Because then Hasbro's CEO would lose half of the two things he knows about Bumblebee; that he's incapable of regular speech and he turns into a Camaro.
Livingdeaddan
I'm sure there's a ton of old threads about it, but why didn't the cube fix bees voice when he touched it?
Moy
THIS.
Wh33ls
If Bumblebee doesn't talk in his OWN damn movie! I won't see it.
End of line.
flamepanther
There were two Ewok movies, actually.
But imagine how dumb it would be if there was an entire movie about the Minions from Despicable Me. Nobody would go see that.
MegaMoonMan
A low budget movie all about Bumblebee.
I am not excite.
At least Bay won't dirHAHAHAHAhahaha
Autobot Burnout
Never happening – the movies must have humans in them because of the whole live-action gimmick, for most of the film, which means they won't do anything where humans don't have 75% presence on screen for the full run time.
jon81
I Think they should do a spinoff movie on either Optimus prime, when he was Orion Pax or to do a Movie with Ultra Magnus, Hot rod, Springer Arcee and blurr on Cybertron, after Optimus prime and his team left Cybertron.
What do you Think?