Travis Knight To Direct Transformers Bumblebee 2018 Spin-Off Movie

ToaLeePrime wrote:Bloody hell, a movie that isn't directed by Micheal bay?! Perhaps he was serious this time

It Is Him wrote:Whoa. We could actually get a good Transformers movie? And I don't mean good in the way the 86 movie is relatively good, or the way that the Bay movies are relatively good, but critically good? It's almost hard to believe.

SlyTF1 wrote:

It Is Him wrote:Whoa. We could actually get a good Transformers movie? And I don't mean good in the way the 86 movie is relatively good, or the way that the Bay movies are relatively good, but critically good? It's almost hard to believe.

Just so you know, the writer for this movie has only written one movie. That one movie sits at a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. People always seem to forget that the writer is usually mostly responsible for how critically successful a movie is. Not the director.

SlyTF1 wrote:

It Is Him wrote:Whoa. We could actually get a good Transformers movie? And I don't mean good in the way the 86 movie is relatively good, or the way that the Bay movies are relatively good, but critically good? It's almost hard to believe.

Just so you know, the writer for this movie has only written one movie. That one movie sits at a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. People always seem to forget that the writer is usually mostly responsible for how critically successful a movie is. Not the director.

Adimus Prime wrote:Since Bay isn't touching this one, it could be called, "Bumblebee, A New Hope."

Deadput wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

It Is Him wrote:Whoa. We could actually get a good Transformers movie? And I don't mean good in the way the 86 movie is relatively good, or the way that the Bay movies are relatively good, but critically good? It's almost hard to believe.

Just so you know, the writer for this movie has only written one movie. That one movie sits at a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. People always seem to forget that the writer is usually mostly responsible for how critically successful a movie is. Not the director.

Sly are you actually serious right now?


Kubo has 97% not 6% do you actually have to lie now?

It Is Him wrote:Whoa. We could actually get a good Transformers movie? And I don't mean good in the way the 86 movie is relatively good, or the way that the Bay movies are relatively good, but critically good? It's almost hard to believe.

"It'll go a little younger, and it will deal more with his character and it's just about him."

Deadput wrote:

Adimus Prime wrote:Since Bay isn't touching this one, it could be called, "Bumblebee, A New Hope."

No it will always be the same even without Bay all the other people are still going to be there and the movies will always end up like his.


Bay's influence will be there forever and no whining or complaining will ever change that.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Cool cool. Is that Bumblebee figure used in the news picture a posable figure or a statue?

RAR wrote:Bumblebee has already had a logo for 10 years it's on his airfreshener in his car mode in the 2007 movie.

Also this would make a great unit patch marking for World War II bee too.

Autobot Roadburn wrote:I know this is super picky but it really bugs me that the antennae aren't symmetrical.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Heh, i like it. it's wings look like Bumblebee's doors.

Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star in Paramount's Transformers spinoff Bumblebee.

Travis Knight, who directed the stop-motion movie Kubo and the Two Strings, is helming the project.

Bumblebee is the yellow and black striped Autobot that appears as one of the main characters in the Transformers film series.

Plot details are being kept on the dark side of the moon but it is known that Steinfeld will play a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school. Christina Hodson (Shut In) wrote the script.

The movie project is the first spinoff in what the studio hopes will be a Transformers Cinematic Universe that will include prequels and offshoots from a line of movies that have generated over $3.7 billion worldwide with the latest one, Transformers: The Last Knight, set to hit theaters June 23.

“I am so excited to know that is the next movie I am working on,” she said as the news broke last week.
“Obviously I’m coming to Australia and when I come back, we start shooting.”

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, this movie's going to be trash. This is the first movie in the franchise I'm not looking forward to at all.

william-james88 wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, this movie's going to be trash. This is the first movie in the franchise I'm not looking forward to at all.

I cant believe i am reading these words from you Sly. What dont you like about this? It has a good director and it will give us a chance to see a different point of view rather than Michael Bay. This intrigues me quite a bit.

Kurona wrote:Even Sly doesn't like Bumblebee? What sort of hellish alternate universe have I stumbled into?

Kurona wrote:Even Sly doesn't like Bumblebee? What sort of hellish alternate universe have I stumbled into?

It was nominated for ten Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bridges), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Steinfeld), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing.

william-james88 wrote:Kingpin is always shown as a well educated, sophisticated man who likes to stay up to date in the arts. He would know Hailee, she is probably the best actress to ever be in a Transformers film aside from Francis McDormand. She was the main character (even though the Academy called it a supporting role) of True Grit, which was nominated at the Oscars in 2010 for the following:

It was nominated for ten Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bridges), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Steinfeld), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing.

She's also Trinity in this Taylor Swift video: