We previously reported that Location Filming of the 7th Transformers movie will being in on July 4th in Montreal.
Transformers Quebec & France website has acquired a Casting Call Sheet for Extras, confirming the aforementioned date as well as one more important piece of info.
According to the sheet, the extras for the movie must be prepared to change their appearance (hair, facial hair, clothing, etc.) based on the styles from 1992; thus indicating the possibility of the story of Transformers 7 taking place five years after the events of Bumblebee (if it is a continuation of the Bumblebee Movie Storytelling Universe). During the principal photography of Transformers: Bumblebee movie, the extras were called to change their appearance based on the styles from 1987.
As with all previous Transformers movies, the working title E7 is utilized. This time as E77.
Rumblestorm
You know, its funny, I remember posting this image as a response but I have 0 recollection of it happening on the date this says it was posted nor do I recall it being towards that comment (though I stand by it).
Rodimal Rodimus
Bit late for that, mate.
Wheeljack84
It's not five years later.
Rodimal Rodimus
Your point?
Wheeljack84
Yes it is. It sounds like they don't know what to do with the continuity now.
And this film is in 1994 for, so…?
Rojixus
Laserbeak sees Dropkick and Shatter get killed, Laserbeak tells Soundwave, Soundwave tells Megatron(?). It's how the Decepticons have found out about anything since 1984.
Galvatron1998
One potential route they could take is by saying that Dropkick and Shatter's last known location was in the Milky Way galaxy and that the Decepticons on Cybertron haven't heard back from them. The Decepticons could search our galaxy in search of answers and stumble upon Earth (maybe similar to how Starscream discovers the Autobots in Animated). It's a bit of a stretch but it would help further tie this movie to Bumblebee.
MrBoombastiqueFantastique
5 years after Bumblebee is ok, I just wonder how they get the decepticons on Earth in a way that doesn't make it forced, I doubt they will find one.
Shady boi
T3 was the last good one imo
Rodimal Rodimus
Technically, three and a half years, but hey, splitting hairs.
I honestly forgot what GB is.
Fair point. I know I expressed this before, but I think setting around 1990/91 would make a more natural transition before eras plus make sense in terms of real-time.
Suboptimal Optimus
Doesn't matter, every Terminator movie after 2 is shit. Same with Alien, even if I did personally sort of love the first AVP but I wouldn't really say its at the same level of Alien 1, 2 and the first Predator.
Music
Is it that weird though? 5 years gap doesn't sound that odd to me. Perhaps it required by the narrative. Maybe they wanted to show the Autobots having an established base. I wouldn't have minded a film taking place in the '80s but honestly, '80s has been done to death. It's actually smart for Paramount to capitalize on the '90s nostalgia. Hollywood is going to do it anyways so might as well get your foot in door so it doesn't feel like following the bandwagon.
Jochimus
Yeah, I'm actually not surprised that a follow-up to BB would be set in the early 1990s. With a 2022 release date, it'll be four years since the last movie came out as it is, and setting a sequel roughly as much time narratively since the previous film's events as has passed in real-time between the two releases isn't exactly uncommon.
Also, Hollywood loves its "Five Years Later" trope. From GB2 all the way to Endgame and who knows how many other movies around and between.
Rodimal Rodimus
Bumblebee was specifically set around 1987, so…
CaioSilvatheScreamerFan
It makes perfect sense
Didn't you know ? In 1993
THE HEROIC AUTOBOTS ARE DRIVING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM THE EVIL DECEPTICONS,
THEY ARE LED BY OPTIMUS PRIME,
HE'S MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE HE'S A ROBOT IN DISGUISE!!
Wheeljack84
Setting the new film in the 1990s is a pretty weird and random idea.
Transformers originated in the 1980s, so you can kind of understand a Bumblebee movie, a new live-action type of origin story being set in that time period. I don't get why you would do a new Transformers movie in the 1990s though. It doesn't make sense.