Images from London Set - Transformers: The Last Knight, with Wahlberg, Haddock, Hot Rod, Bumblebee

Considering their appearance, their being in London and our recent conversation topic my first thought was "what's Bay doing with U.N.I.T.?"

That's funny I was at coming soon this morning before stopped here for news like how bumblebee car doors change things up

Kurona wrote:Considering their appearance, their being in London and our recent conversation topic my first thought was "what's Bay doing with U.N.I.T.?"

If The Doctor shows up I would die of happiness in the theater.

I wonder if the head honcho decided to pay U.N.I.T to be in The Last Knight. Now only if a certain 1963 Police box would show up....

It's entirely possible. The Doctor battled Death's Head, who also battled Transformers. And then there's Octus' altmode, as Mark-III Travel Machine (that's what the Dalek shells are called. And no, the Daleks are not robots) Wait a minute.... Doctor Who is on hiatus this year (will be back next year) perhaps they have a role in The Last Night!

Decepticon Stryker wrote:It's entirely possible. The Doctor battled Death's Head, who also battled Transformers. And then there's Octus' altmode, as Mark-III Travel Machine (that's what the Dalek shells are called. And no, the Daleks are not robots) Wait a minute.... Doctor Who is on hiatus this year (will be back next year) perhaps they have a\ role in The Last Night!

That would make the Transformers films interesting

Kurona wrote:Considering their appearance, their being in London and our recent conversation topic my first thought was "what's Bay doing with U.N.I.T.?"

Lol yes.

Sabrblade wrote:Shouldn't Joyce be in jail or something? I mean, that was his company's property that terrorized all over Hong Kong. He's kinda responsible for all that in a way.

Sure, Galvatron instigated the attack, but as far as KSI was concerned, Galvatron was built and owned by KSI, so from a legal stance, KSI's property instigated the attack, and Joyce is responsible for all that KSI does, so Joyce is technically responsible for his property having rampaged in Hong Kong, from a legal point of view (which is that point of view that all the lawyers and victims involved are gonna be looking from).

There are a lot of people in the real world who should be in jail. You know what's keeping the courts and judges from sentencing them? Money. Joshua has a lot of money.

Another update today from the London filming session for Transformers: The Last Knight, from Instagram account TransformersFilm - who in turn credit one Philip Osborne for the image - featuring a silver Aston Martin DB11, who is rumoured to be the British-voiced Transformer Cogman. Also, from Owen Morgs, who took a closer look at that Stargate-esque triangle logo on the humans seen in the movie so far, we find out the letters TRF are also part of the symbol - what do you think it can mean? Discuss and speculate away in the Energon Pub!

I got told I'd get a news credit for this

Dr Va'al wrote:Another update today from the London filming session for Transformers: The Last Knight, from Instagram account TransformersFilm - who in turn credit one Philip Osborne for the image - featuring a silver Aston Martin DB11, who is rumoured to be the British-voiced Transformer Cogman. Also, from Owen Morgs, who took a closer look at that Stargate-esque triangle logo on the humans seen in the movie so far, we find out the letters TRF are also part of the symbol - what do you think it can mean? Discuss and speculate away in the Energon Pub!

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, this is my favorite piece of news so far.

Collectotron wrote:I got told I'd get a news credit for this

You did!

EDIT: How odd - the credit is there in admin panel, but not on the site.

Dr Va'al wrote:

Collectotron wrote:I got told I'd get a news credit for this

You did!

EDIT: How odd - the credit is there in admin panel, but not on the site.

I've found it normally takes about an hour for the number in news credit to go up. It shows up once you click that you got the credit, but it takes a bit for the actual shown number to adjust

Have a theory as to what the staff may be. Let me know what you all think please. Perhaps it belonged to Quintus Prime, one of the thirteen and creator of the Quintessons, he has a power he put into an artifact called "The Emberstone" and he placed it within a staff and gave it to Merlin to use to conjure his magic.
The Emberstone can accelerate biological processes in base elements.

I just realized that "Hot Rod" is not black but DEEP, REALLY DEEP PURPLE trimmed with ORANGE.

Transformers Fanatic wrote:Have a theory as to what the staff may be. Let me know what you all think please. Perhaps it belonged to Quintus Prime, one of the thirteen and creator of the Quintessons, he has a power he put into an artifact called "The Emberstone" and he placed it within a staff and gave it to Merlin to use to conjure his magic.
The Emberstone can accelerate biological processes in base elements.

I doubt the TF films would do anything with the actual original 13 - not only because this universe established it to be 7, but also because Michael Bay himself said that TF2 having mystical elements was a really big mistake.

Slightly quiet time from the Transformers: The Last Knight marketing department? Probably building up to the one and only Anthony Hopkins ready to take on the camera role (or the voice role) for the movie, as Michael Bay and production are in currently in London. Check out the very short Instagram clip below, and keep checking Seibertron.com for more updates as they arrive!

After a human, a new Transformer character has been spotted on the London set for Transformers: The Last Knight, and we share via social media users Steve Mason and June Bates - who do not identify the bright red McLaren Sports Series 570GT, though there is the suggestion that Dino / Mirage may in fact be back for the fifth Paramount movie. Check out the images below, and let the speculation engines rev in the Energon Pub!

Oh boy. A high-end sports car in the live-action movies, how novel.

Is it just me or does this give off a RiD Sideswipe vibe

Why does every red car have to be Dino?

Wonderful, another stereotype character is coming back.

Madeus Prime wrote:Wonderful, another stereotype character is coming back.

I wouldn't call him a stereotype. He had a (legit) Italian accent and that was it.

Speaking of stereotypes, I wonder why Cybertronians even have Earth based accents. I don't really get how that gets factored into the development of a character. Why aren't there transformers with Swahili accents or Russian accents.

MGrotusque wrote:Speaking of stereotypes, I wonder why Cybertronians even have Earth based accents. I don't really get how that gets factored into the development of a character. Why aren't there transformers with Swahili accents or Russian accents.

Convention. An accent can help you get a specific mental image of a character, and it makes them more identifiable then they would be if everyone just had a northeastern american one or something. In-universe, I assume it matters where they land and what their first data scans would be like. If some random autobot lands in Germany and the first broadcast it picks up is a german-language sitcom, they're going to pick up that accent.

MGrotusque wrote:Speaking of stereotypes, I wonder why Cybertronians even have Earth based accents. I don't really get how that gets factored into the development of a character. Why aren't there transformers with Swahili accents or Russian accents.

Unless it does something really cool for a character, I've always felt accents are overused in Transformers as a whole. For example, Cybertron with it's Texan Skywarp, Australian Jetfire felt unnecessary, but the New York accents of Ransack and Crumplezone were golden (in my opinion).

Now for the movies, I'd be okay if they used accents liberally, but not to the point of giving characters such strong accents that they feel like stereotypes, regardless of the stereotype laden writing (looking at you Skids and Mudflap). For example, Ken Wantanabe may naturally have a strong Japanese accent, but I've seen films where he's had a softer accent. Why this couldn't be applied to Drift? We'll never know.

Saw this on social media, but someone suggested the car could be "Stinger" brought back from the fourth film (even though they got scrapped). But eh. I guess we won't know until the movie comes out or more information is released.

Cool! Hopefully he gets a good toy to represent him this time, oh and it comes to America.

Madeus Prime wrote:Wonderful, another stereotype character is coming back.

In some other part of the world your probably considered a stereotype.

And even if he was you do know just because someone is a stereotype doesn't mean it's a bad thing right?


Look at the G1 cartoon for example it has a lot of similar characters there.

MGrotusque wrote:Speaking of stereotypes, I wonder why Cybertronians even have Earth based accents. I don't really get how that gets factored into the development of a character. Why aren't there transformers with Swahili accents or Russian accents.

It was explained in the very first movie that they picked up the Earth languages through the Internet so their accents would have been derived from whatever it was they gravitated towards on the web.

Emerje

Madeus Prime wrote:Unless it does something really cool for a character, I've always felt accents are overused in Transformers as a whole. For example, Cybertron with it's Texan Skywarp, Australian Jetfire felt unnecessary, but the New York accents of Ransack and Crumplezone were golden (in my opinion).

Skywarp was in Cybertron?


Guess I never saw him with Thundercracker on the screen all the time.

Since DOTM went out of its way to make Dino be an Italian car model with an Italian name and an Italian voice actor, I really don't think they'd break that setup with the character. So with this not being an Italian car model, and with Francesco Quinn having passed away, I really don't think this is Dino.

Sabrblade wrote:Since DOTM went out of its way to make Dino be an Italian car model with an Italian name and an Italian voice actor, I really don't think they'd break that setup with the character. So with this not being an Italian car model, and with Francesco Quinn having passed away, I really don't think this is Dino.

If they were to bring him back they probably don't want to deal with Ferrari's ridiculous contract again.

They would also probably change his name from Dino to Mirage.

Plus Sideswipe had his voice actor changed in between rotf and dotm.

I'm thinking this is either; Stinger brought back to life by Megatron or something, or Hot Rod is going to get a more conventional color scheme in the film the way Bumblebee did in the last one.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I'm thinking this is either; Stinger brought back to life by Megatron or something, or Hot Rod is going to get a more conventional color scheme in the film the way Bumblebee did in the last one.

Red car is not hot rod he has been seen separately from this guy.


Also according to people who have been on set Cogman is being referred to as an Autobot.

Deadput wrote:In some other part of the world your probably considered a stereotype.
And even if he was you do know just because someone is a stereotype doesn't mean it's a bad thing right?
Look at the G1 cartoon for example it has a lot of similar characters there.

That's fair. But please, do not presume me to be a stereotype when you don't personally know me.

I'm just saying that it's extremely "normal" for modern films to just default to having characters of a certain nationality always operate like the stereotypes that are given in most forms of entertainment. I am just sick of it, regardless of it being associated with Transformers in the current discussion.

And yeah, G1 had stereotypes, and looking back, they were pretty bad. But that was another era culturally, and I feel that we should've matured in terms of foreign representation in films and TV. Of course, these films are proof we have only matured in terms of visual quality and nothing else.

Deadput wrote:Skywarp was in Cybertron? Guess I never saw him with Thundercracker on the screen all the time.

Pardon my error, I was getting ready for a good friend's wedding. I was in a rush.

Noideaforaname wrote:Oh boy. A high-end sports car in the live-action movies, how novel.

I need to report it all nonetheless. Feel for me.

Not sure if this is already known or not.
The word is that Sir Anthony Hopkins
is providing the voice of UNICRON.
>>I hope this is true<<

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Not sure if this is already known or not.
The word is that Sir Anthony Hopkins
is providing the voice of UNICRON.
>>I hope this is true<<

Unicron's been rumored for every movie since ROTF. And frankly, I hope he doesn't show up in any of these movies with the way they've been so far. The movies need to improve a drastic amount before they'd be ready to do justice for someone like Unicron.

I still think Unicron makes more sense as the main villain in a Hasbro crossover movie. Nothing brings people together across time and space like a world eater.

Emerje

Madeus Prime wrote:That's fair. But please, do not presume me to be a stereotype when you don't personally know me.

Not saying you are one but I'm saying you might be considered one somewhere else in the world.

Bad wording choices on my part sorry.

Emerje wrote:I still think Unicron makes more sense as the main villain in a Hasbro crossover movie. Nothing brings people together across time and space like a world eater.

Emerje

Unicron really should be the final threat for once like he is supposed to be I mean how do you raise the stakes up even more after him?

Only thing I can think of is maybe the Elder Gods from the comics but I don't think there is anything else.

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Not sure if this is already known or not.
The word is that Sir Anthony Hopkins
is providing the voice of UNICRON.
>>I hope this is true<<

from liver eater to world eater

Emerje wrote:I still think Unicron makes more sense as the main villain in a Hasbro crossover movie. Nothing brings people together across time and space like a world eater.

Emerje

I think your right.....he's more likely to show up in that animated movie that's coming up...as part of this expanded cinematic universe!(god knows we'll prob end up with a new toy of him) seeing as Bay has been avoiding putting him in his films like the plague.

What if by chance that the Red Sportscar spotted is something obscure like Transformers: Cybertron Excellion, or something obscure from early G1/Diaclone?

Fellow Seibertronians, Transformers: The Last Knight is filming in London, and we have a slew of photos to show you, thanks to arun09345, and corentin.spot we have several photos of Hot Rod, Bumblebee, Barricade, the mysterious Aston Martin and red car that is reminiscent of Dino (Mirage), as well as a shot of Hound, and some clips of some action scenes that will likely be featured in the upcoming movie. So check them out, and let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Kind of wondering if the 'bots and 'cons are going to team up in this one somewhat. No evidence for it really, but I've had it as an after thought as of late.

So let me get this straight....In this movie, there is an Aston Martin Trasnformer, a McLaren transformer, and now a classic Citroën transformer?! You've got me on the hook, Bay. Don't disappoint me.

I never really care much about cars (I can't even drive) but then these movies make them look like the most gorgeous things ever.

oh my Lord i really hope that db-11 is a bot, i need a figure that turns into a db-11.