Jorge Lendenborg Jr would be the male lead for next year’s Bumblebee movie according to Hollywood Reporter. He’ll play alongside Hailee Steinfeld as an after school Mechanic. No more information about his character is available at the time.
Lenderborg is a new star, he can be seen in Spiderman Homecoming playing Jason.
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Incepticon
Good point, but that's also under the assumption that any of the buffoons behind the scenes are aware of and/or care about "established" continuity… which we know they don't… so he very well could end up talking in this solo thing.
Raiju
Got some cool toys out of it, at least.
SPLIT LIP
Well, it's established he hasn't talked since "Cybertron fell." So no, he won't talk. It's just an unrealistic expectation.
Like this fucking franchise ever being worth a damn.
Wild Eevee
I sure hope Bee talks in this movie;his not being able to speak was cute in the first two movies and Prime but now it's getting old.
Smokescreen38
I totally agree! The lack of voice for Bee is almost a metaphor for how the bots are treated in these films.
I'm pretty sure I read that Dan Gilvezan was even on board to voice this character had they offered it to him…as folks have mentioned earlier (correctly, IMO), they're not attempting to make a G1 movie…but how cool would it be to have some of what made Bumblebee such a beloved character honored in current media?! He brought so much life and personality to the original role. He seems like a damn good guy who genuinely cares about the character and the fans. So far, the TF films have been utterly bereft of that kind of heart.
As for the male lead here…this is extremely encouraging! The cast of Spider-Man Homecoming was (IMO) absolutely fantastic. This actor didn't stand out to me at the time but all of the kids in the movie were all terrific so I'm psyched to see that he's getting a role in another cherished franchise.
Ra88
Bit disappointing. Was hoping this movie would be just about the friendship between the girl and Bumblebee. We'll see where this goes I guess.
The one thing the movies have been consistent about is Bee having lost his voice in the war. So I'm guessing that he either gets it back temporary, explaining how it's suddenly working again in TLK, or that this is where he learns to speak in radio.
Raiju
Agreed but the first step would be to give Bee his own voice, before his voice box got damaged. I'm guessing this movie will explain how he lost his voice in the first place though that's just me being optimistic. The radio playing gimmick is old hat now and won't work if Bee is to be more his own character and less a prop or pet for the humans.
Wild Eevee
I think Bumblebee should be the lead male character in his own movie myself. Nothing against this guy,but it seems to me that the Transformers should be the major characters in their movies.
Raiju
TF1 was straightforward guy tries to win and eventually gets the girl. Arguably the most organic of the movies.
ROTF had the bit with Pretender Alice trying to get friendly with Sam, and Mikaela basically holds it against him the rest of the movie, again necessitating Sam having to win her over yet again. Not to mention his parents interfering every step of the way. Unnecessary.
DOTM had Gould as a rival trying to drive a wedge between Sam and Carly, and Sam having to prove himself worthy to win her over.
AOE had Tessa and whatever her driver boyfriend's name was, though this time it was him trying to win over her dad Cade's approval. Still bogged the story down, especially with the statutory card scene and the needless bickering between the three characters.
TLK had Cade and Vivian getting into each other's past love lives and the silly scene involving her mom and aunts. More bickering and forced exposition.
There was forced romance in every film thus far. Just because characters are dating, or one wins over the other, doesn't mean that the romance suddenly stops. The romance had to be maintained or threatened at every turn.
If anything, it was annoying how the writers felt the need to try to "reset" the romantic chase by trying to break up Sam and Mikaela with Alice's scene, and again with Sam and Carly with Dylan Gould being the cock-blocking douche (him being a villain and working as a Decepticon agent was incidental as his role as Sam's romantic rival). Was approaching near Sam and Diane from Cheers level of annoying.
This. My wife has had male platonic friends, and I've had a few female platonic friends. It's not so strange a thing.
Also you bring up another good point about equals. Too often the girl is nothing more than eye candy or a prize to be won. In TFA, Finn initially had some romantic inklings for Rey, I believe, but Rey was content to just let their newfound friendship be and stay platonic. She isn't a prize to be won, and she had a say over her own agency (Mary Sue story problems aside).
Gallade
I literally forgot some parts in TLK. I was too excited for other parts.
Calabask
…..I don't even know where to begin with how wrong this is, and how badly this continuity holds together.
Calabask
You don't remember where the Military said they were using tactical nukes on that piece of wreckage right near everyone?
T-Hybrid
Studio notes are the worst.
Edwardmus Prime
All the movies had romance, you just stated it. It's a general cliché in film that the leads end up getting together, so it doesn't take much to think that with a male and female lead, there will be a romance.
All five movies, again, have a romance plugged in. Already dating? Romance. Boyfriend meeting dad? Key word here: boyfriend. These tend to effect the film by diverting from the main plot and putting in scenes that are unneeded. The plots are unneeded, and if anything they should at least be a burned out trope.
It's lovely whenever people love each other. Doesn't matter who these people are so long as they are capable of consent and there's no unbalance of power. It's just that when on adventure, any kind of camaraderie can take place. It can be a romance, sure, but it can also be a friendship. Friendship is awesome too, and that's not something movies these days seem to enjoy emphasising. It would be nice to take a break from the usual tropes and see people grow close in a different way. (I always find it quite weird that media ignores the possibility of a man and woman having a healthy, platonic relationship — all my relationships with people of the opposite sex are platonic and I am quite happy about it.)
megabot6969
I'm just saying that for me, it's all about the toys. I don't believe the movies will ever get better, and like wise, only a handful of the TV shows have been watchable. Even now, I can barely watch RID without cringing, but then I remind myself that it's made for kids.
Goaliebot
I like a *good* romance sub-plot, but lately a lot of movies have really ham-handed it in there; like part of a directive from marketing.
Deadend
Except it didn't bog any of them down. In every movie it was organic to the plot, and out of the movies, only TF1 had an actual thorough romance sub plot to the story. The rest were extensions of the main plot and weren't really romance sub plots either.
Raiju
It's just that the romance angle has been done to death across all 5 movies already. Platonic friendship can and does work (Finn and Rey in TFA). There's also the danger of the romance once again bogging down the story's pace and taking center stage overshadowing the focus on the actual robots.
Deadend
So wait. Why can't the Bumblebee movie have a side love story?
I'd like it to have a more platonic friends aspect, but it is true also that people that go through hell together often enough can relate to each other and grow romantic feelings. Plus it's really normal for teens to have crushes and date.
But if we're talking about direct romance sub plots, only TF1 and TF5 had that.
TF1, Sam got his car to get a girlfriend, and Bumblebee helped him woo the girl. Actual romance sub plot.
TF2, they were already dating. No romance subplot.
TF3, Sam and Carly were already dating. No romance sub plot.
TF4, the daughter was already dating the guy. No romance sub plot, though it did have a father meets the boyfriend for the first time sub plot.
TF5, not really a romance sub plot, but Vivian and Cade kind of ended up together anyway because of this mutual shared adventure. So it half counts as a romance sub plot.
It'd be more fun if he was pulled into the story through accident by being an auto maintenance student with her and not directly because of a crush, but where the story goes after that organically, I'm fine with that.
But let's be real here for a second. A romance sub plot isn't as common to the movies as people would make you think. Really, only 2 out of the 5 movies had one. People date. People have feelings. It seems like more of an issue here for other reasons. And we're hearing complaints of it here where an actor is cast but has no clear description of his character yet? Not even stated as being cast as her love interest and already people are crying "NO ROMANCE!" Yeah, that seems fishy af.