Transformers: The Last Knight: Tyrese Gibson Confirmed to Reprise Epps Role

Looks like Tyrese's dream just came true. And the movie is going back to its military/war roots.

Cool! Epps was one the best human characters in the movies, glad to have him back.

I love this news. Epps is easily one of the best human characters in the films. He does his thing, adds to the story but doesn't take up extreme amounts of screen time away from the robots.

Beyond all of that, Tyrese Gibson legitimately wants to be part of this franchise because he loves Transformers and has since a kid. I saw him at a couple BotCons and you could tell he was having a blast and was very personable.

Delicon wrote:I love this news. Epps is easily one of the best human characters in the films. He does his thing, adds to the story but doesn't take up extreme amounts of screen time away from the robots.

Beyond all of that, Tyrese Gibson legitimately wants to be part of this franchise because he loves Transformers and has since a kid. I saw him at a couple BotCons and you could tell he was having a blast and was very personable.

I like hearing stuff like that.
I don't subscribe to the idea of "this person should only be in transformers if they like transformers" or anything like that, but it's just always fun to see someone who did have a passion for it or at least likes it getting the chance to star in that franchise. I know I'd be excited if I said some extremely insignificant headcanon - like I don't know, a random micromaster was a radio DJ in Kaon - and it got canonized.

He's probably the best human character in the entire franchise.

Kurona wrote:

Delicon wrote:I love this news. Epps is easily one of the best human characters in the films. He does his thing, adds to the story but doesn't take up extreme amounts of screen time away from the robots.

Beyond all of that, Tyrese Gibson legitimately wants to be part of this franchise because he loves Transformers and has since a kid. I saw him at a couple BotCons and you could tell he was having a blast and was very personable.

I like hearing stuff like that.
I don't subscribe to the idea of "this person should only be in transformers if they like transformers" or anything like that, but it's just always fun to see someone who did have a passion for it or at least likes it getting the chance to star in that franchise. I know I'd be excited if I said some extremely insignificant headcanon - like I don't know, a random micromaster was a radio DJ in Kaon - and it got canonized.

You should have seen how he reacted to seeing Peter Cullen in person at the party on the Paramount lot that year. He flat out told him he idolized Optimus Prime growing up and how he was the dad he never had.

Happy to see the NEST squad returning, they were my favorite humans of the first trilogy (I'm glad to see this is a popular opinion!). The line "We've shed blood, sweat, and precious metal together." resonated with me quite well - although at a surface level it's your basic "USE ROBOT WORD INSTEAD OF PEOPLE WORD" Transformers line, in this context it was a cool acknowledgement of the TFs as inherently different to the humans, but still true comrades.

Madeus Prime wrote:Might I advise we attempt to halt reasoning with Sly? Trust me, nothing will ever change his mind. The movies are akin to a religion with him.

That's funny, considering the fact that my "religion" is the only thing in existence that matters to me more than these movies.

As glad as I am that Epps is back, I just hope the movie isn't cluttered to Hell. There already seems to be too many human characters, especially for a movie that's supposed to follow both the war on Earth and Optimus's journey to find the Creators, plus we have some kid and her robot friend thrown in for seemingly no reason. My main concern is the screen time Optimus gets. I hope he gets just as much, if not more than he got in AOE. That, and this whole Knight deal. That was my favorite aspect of AOE, and I need for that to be expanded upon.

SlyTF1 wrote:
That's funny, considering the fact that my "religion" is the only thing in existence that matters to me more than these movies.

As glad as I am that Epps is back, I just hope the movie isn't cluttered to Hell. There already seems to be too many human characters, especially for a movie that's supposed to follow both the war on Earth and Optimus's journey to find the Creators, plus we have some kid and her robot friend thrown in for seemingly no reason. My main concern is the screen time Optimus gets. I hope he gets just as much, if not more than he got in AOE. That, and this whole Knight deal. That was my favorite aspect of AOE, and I need for that to be expanded upon.

Dude the only main characters we got right now are Cade, Lennox, Epps and the new girl it's hardly cluttered.

I guess Anthony Hopkins might get a major role too due to how soon he was announced to be in the movie plus there have been many actors hired to be character's who only have few minutes of screen time.

I'm excited for Epps. He and Lennox were great characters to have in the previous movies

Deadput wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:
That's funny, considering the fact that my "religion" is the only thing in existence that matters to me more than these movies.

As glad as I am that Epps is back, I just hope the movie isn't cluttered to Hell. There already seems to be too many human characters, especially for a movie that's supposed to follow both the war on Earth and Optimus's journey to find the Creators, plus we have some kid and her robot friend thrown in for seemingly no reason. My main concern is the screen time Optimus gets. I hope he gets just as much, if not more than he got in AOE. That, and this whole Knight deal. That was my favorite aspect of AOE, and I need for that to be expanded upon.

Dude the only main characters we got right now are Cade, Lennox, Epps and the new girl it's hardly cluttered.

I guess Anthony Hopkins might get a major role too due to how soon he was announced to be in the movie plus there have been many actors hired to be character's who only have few minutes of screen time.

I said I'm hoping it isn't. There are still months of filming left, and I don't want them to announce too many more human characters in the course of those months. The cast right now is as close to perfect as we're ever going to get, I think. Except I'd honestly like to see Joshua return for a small role, but that's it.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Deadput wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:That's funny, considering the fact that my "religion" is the only thing in existence that matters to me more than these movies.

As glad as I am that Epps is back, I just hope the movie isn't cluttered to Hell. There already seems to be too many human characters, especially for a movie that's supposed to follow both the war on Earth and Optimus's journey to find the Creators, plus we have some kid and her robot friend thrown in for seemingly no reason. My main concern is the screen time Optimus gets. I hope he gets just as much, if not more than he got in AOE. That, and this whole Knight deal. That was my favorite aspect of AOE, and I need for that to be expanded upon.

Dude the only main characters we got right now are Cade, Lennox, Epps and the new girl it's hardly cluttered.

I guess Anthony Hopkins might get a major role too due to how soon he was announced to be in the movie plus there have been many actors hired to be character's who only have few minutes of screen time.

I said I'm hoping it isn't. There are still months of filming left, and I don't want them to announce too many more human characters in the course of those months. The cast right now is as close to perfect as we're ever going to get, I think. Except I'd honestly like to see Joshua return for a small role, but that's it.

How can you call the cast perfect without Revenge of the Fallen's Tightest Shirt guys?

We need a new mystical artifact for TF5, and bringing back their Tightest Shirt from RotF would fill that slot nicely, while also being a fun bit of continuity! Perhaps they'll go to Cybertron and find the Tighterest Shirt.

#TheLastShirt

Kurona wrote:#TheLastShirt

...The One Shirt to rule them all...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:#TheLastShirt

...The One Shirt to rule them all...

Wrong franchise, genius.

"Left cheek, left cheek, left cheek" and a poorly thrown orange smoke canister is about all I can remember of Epps. Lets hope they give him something better to do this time.

Ravage XK wrote:"Left cheek, left cheek, left cheek" and a poorly thrown orange smoke canister is about all I can remember of Epps. Lets hope they give him something better to do this time.

Yeah, it's not like he helped Sam infiltrate Chicago when the 's took it over or anything

It's been a long time since I've watched DotM. I know Sam was a whiney bee-otch (about 10x worse than the previous films) in that film, but I seem to recall Epps was kind of a jerk, maybe he was just trying to force Sam to face the reality of the horrible situation they were in...I still liked the Epps but, maybe my memory is flawed, but it just seems to me like his personality, got darker, more harsh as the films went on. Still glad he signed on for TF5.

o.supreme wrote:It's been a long time since I've watched DotM. I know Sam was a whiney bee-otch (about 10x worse than the previous films) in that film, but I seem to recall Epps was kind of a jerk, maybe he was just trying to force Sam to face the reality of the horrible situation they were in...I still liked the Epps but, maybe my memory is flawed, but it just seems to me like his personality, got darker, more harsh as the films went on. Still glad he signed on for TF5.

No, you're right, but, being plain, they were trying to storm an occupied city - occupied by giant, homicidal, nigh invincible (to their conventional weapons at least) transforming robots and their war vehicles (flying drones, etc.) if any situation were to seem untenable, that certainly qualifies. So, as a soldier, it would make sense for him to not want to risk his friends' lives for Sam's girlfriend...

Epps is a pointless character, and the dude is a lousy actor........wait thats exactly the actors Bay hires! my bad all is right in the world of Bayformers

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:"Left cheek, left cheek, left cheek" and a poorly thrown orange smoke canister is about all I can remember of Epps. Lets hope they give him something better to do this time.

Yeah, it's not like he helped Sam infiltrate Chicago when the 's took it over or anything

I said that is all I can remember.

Can we get rid of that smug, condescending, sitting on your high horse, coffee drinking smilie?

All things considered, as it stands right now, I have very little faith in this movie. I was kinda hoping it would get better with the total switch-out of the writing staff, but it seems like it's still going to hell. I mean, really, "Sqweeks?" Doesn't the franchise have enough screen-worthy characters that are already established? And Rom the Space Knight? Totally unnecessary. And if there is any truth to the rumor that this story will revolve around King Arthur and the Knighs of the Round Table, I'm just going to expect a movie version of "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court." They made a big deal over the new writers, and even I could write a better story to be put on the screen than what we're getting. I have seen all the Bayverse films in theaters,a nd I will most likely see this one as well (and that's all that matters to Bay), but the live action movies are seriously approaching Beast Machines territory in terms of poor quality stories and characters.

Rodimus Prime wrote:And Rom the Space Knight? Totally unnecessary.

That's more of just a theory crafted by this site's news staff.

The only official info we have about Rom is his participation in IDW's new multi-property Revolution event, which is unrelated to the movies, fictionally speaking.

Speaking of ROM, I know IDW is investing heavily in 80's properties for its "Revolution" event, however I heard from my local owner that Micronauts (already on issue 3) is not selling well at all...

We got a new actor on the role via The Transformers Instagram!

Seems to be part of that new military that Lennox also seems to be part of.


I welcome Santiago Cabrera to Transformers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSfP9EAIi_/

Fellow Seibertronians Bronzewolf and Deadput have sent us notifications that the official Transformers: The Last Knight Instagram account has revealed the latest cast addition for the movie: Santiago Cabrera! Cabrera was a regular in British series Merlin (hmmmm concidence?). From the looks of the image below, he seems to be part of the same team as Lennox/Duhamel. What do you think so far? Let us know in the Energon Pub.

Rodimus Prime wrote:All things considered, as it stands right now, I have very little faith in this movie. I was kinda hoping it would get better with the total switch-out of the writing staff, but it seems like it's still going to hell. I mean, really, "Sqweeks?" Doesn't the franchise have enough screen-worthy characters that are already established? And Rom the Space Knight? Totally unnecessary. And if there is any truth to the rumor that this story will revolve around King Arthur and the Knighs of the Round Table, I'm just going to expect a movie version of "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court." They made a big deal over the new writers, and even I could write a better story to be put on the screen than what we're getting. I have seen all the Bayverse films in theaters,a nd I will most likely see this one as well (and that's all that matters to Bay), but the live action movies are seriously approaching Beast Machines territory in terms of poor quality stories and characters.

after the first one i knew these movies were doomed, funny thing is everyone gets worse and worse. U say this movie sounds terrible yet ur stil going to pay Bay money to see it........well thats the problem right there, maybe if ppl like yourself stopped going to see these piles of dung, maybe they would have let go of bay and went another proper direction. As it stands ppl like droves of zombies still go them.

Mr_Autobot411 wrote:after the first one i knew these movies were doomed, funny thing is everyone gets worse and worse. U say this movie sounds terrible yet ur stil going to pay Bay money to see it........well thats the problem right there, maybe if ppl like yourself stopped going to see these piles of dung, maybe they would have let go of bay and went another proper direction. As it stands ppl like droves of zombies still go them.

For what its worth, I thought AoE was better than RotF & DotM. But still. If nobody in the United States paid money to see the last Transformers film, it made $858M total foreign gross, and would still be getting a sequel. I don't hate these films. But for fans that do, unfortunately not going isn't going to stop them from being made, unless somehow you can convince everyone in China not to go.

Mr_Autobot411 wrote:

after the first one i knew these movies were doomed, funny thing is everyone gets worse and worse. U say this movie sounds terrible yet ur stil going to pay Bay money to see it........well thats the problem right there, maybe if ppl like yourself stopped going to see these piles of dung, maybe they would have let go of bay and went another proper direction. As it stands ppl like droves of zombies still go them.

So your saying that people that like them should stop seeing them?

I know the argument that the movie is not out yet has been done to death but it is the case still.

Just because it's likely to be bad doesn't mean it's going to be bad I'm still going to give the movie a chance I mean I give all Transformers media a chance before I say I don't like it.

Deadput wrote:

Mr_Autobot411 wrote:

after the first one i knew these movies were doomed, funny thing is everyone gets worse and worse. U say this movie sounds terrible yet ur stil going to pay Bay money to see it........well thats the problem right there, maybe if ppl like yourself stopped going to see these piles of dung, maybe they would have let go of bay and went another proper direction. As it stands ppl like droves of zombies still go them.

So your saying that people that like them should stop seeing them?

I know the argument that the movie is not out yet has been done to death but it is the case still.

Just because it's likely to be bad doesn't mean it's going to be bad I'm still going to give the movie a chance I mean I give all Transformers media a chance before I say I don't like it.

if u like it go see it, its ur damn money. My point was the dude that said it looks like crap, then he says hes gonna see it , just dont get that logic. and yes the chinese love the crappy bay movies and its all about money not good film or art etc. I bet u if the North american box office took a massive hit u would def see changes.........i for one know its gonna be crap cuz they all have been! lol. Im more looking forward to the Combiner wars show

London, Anthony Hopkins, Santiago Cabrera, Merlin! How British can this film get? Are we going to have a teacup scene with the Autobots or humans, talking about how those bloody Decepticons are at it again?

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:London, Anthony Hopkins, Santiago Cabrera, Merlin! How British can this film get? Are we going to have a teacup scene with the Autobots or humans, talking about how those bloody Decepticons are at it again?

Don't worry, they won't be able to achieve Maximum Britishness without cameoing Doctor Who, and the BBC is too classy to let that happen.

They'll only achieve maximum britishness if they don't visit any EU countries

Kurona wrote:They'll only achieve maximum britishness if they don't visit any EU countries

I believe we call that a royal zinger

Also optimalOptimus if you want to see if that stereotype is true, I invite you to our country, I can guarantee you'll be surprised and perhaps a little horrified.

Anyway I doubt that any of that plot involving merlin and Arthur is true, that's just people jumping to conclusions about the title and shooting locations. The Rom theory has more going for it. Speculation is fun though.

Fellow Seibertronian ScottyP has pointed us towards the official Michael Bay Twitter account, through which we have our first look at returning character Drift in his vehicle mode: a black and red Mercedes AMG GT R! Check it out in the mirrored image below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

Looks great! These people really wanna sell toys!

Beautiful

Probably trying to bring it closer to both the IDW Drift and RiD Drift in that he now has a warmer red colour rather than a cold blue.

Bye bye Bugatti. We'll miss you.

Can't wait to see the toy

Cybertronians must really like Mercedes cars. This is the fourth movie bot to turn into one.

Not complaining though, it's a very pretty car.

Kurona wrote:Probably trying to bring it closer to both the IDW Drift and RiD Drift in that he now has a warmer red colour rather than a cold blue.

AOE Drift was originally going to be orange and black, but they had to go with blue and black, due to the fact they couldn't find enough orange and black Bugatti's for filming.

Glad to see they finally got their wish.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Probably trying to bring it closer to both the IDW Drift and RiD Drift in that he now has a warmer red colour rather than a cold blue.

AOE Drift was originally going to be orange and black, but they had to go with blue and black, due to the fact they couldn't find enough orange and black Bugatti's for filming.

Glad to see they finally got their wish.

oh, cool

I guess that also explains why RiD Drift is orange and black rather than the AoE blue or IDW white and red.

I think I like the red/orange and black more than the blue

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I think I like the red/orange and black more than the blue

They did too considering that was going to be his original colors before they had to make it blue.

Two questions here. Will he retain his triple changer ability? Will they acknowledge the change in alt modes or ignore it. Most likely the latter.

Doctor McGrath wrote:Two questions here. Will he retain his triple changer ability? Will they acknowledge the change in alt modes or ignore it. Most likely the latter.

I hope not, he'll just get a re-colored aoe helicopter release; if they wanted to, they should have upgraded him into a gen springer-style design, then they could re-shell that amazing figure and we could all be happy, but that's clearly not happening with this film

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

Kapiko Customs wrote:Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

The Tweet said he's still a Samurai.

Great now I'll have a red driftranger to go with the powerdrifters.
With deadlock filling in the black driftranger slot, I'm only missing yellow and green.