When Michael Bay started the saga of transformers in 2007 for four games in a row, it was a long string of box office successes, from $709 million for the first chapter to over a billion dollars for each of the following, but when in 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight revenue dropped to 605 million (during a blockbuster-filled period), Paramount decided without hesitation that it was time for Bay to take a long break and hit the reset button.
New life
Debuted in 2018 bumblebeeunder the direction of the director Kubo and magic sword Travis Knight. The story went back to 1987, brought Bumblebee to Earth for the first time and introduced him to Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) and, most importantly, started a new beginning for the saga. With a $135 million budget, the film has garnered 467 worldwide screenings and the saga may have a fresh start.
Animal Revolt
Transformers: Awakening (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) shifts the action to 1994, leaves aside Hailee Steinfeld (still loyal to Marvel) and brings to the stage two characters whose fates are destined to intertwine: Noah (Anthony Ramos, Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters2019) ex-military living in Brooklyn and struggling to find a way to feed his family and Elena (Dominic Fishbeck, TV series Deuce HBO) museum assistant and artifact researcher. It all starts when she discovers a strange sculpture with illegible symbols, inadvertently activates it, and this leads to a clash between the Autobots, always led by Optimus Prime, the Maximals, led by Optimus Primal (with the original voice of Ron Perlman, two Hellboy originals) and, of course, the evil Terrorcons led by Scourge (voiced by Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones). This is because the statue is actually half of the powerful Transwarp Key. Optimus wants her to be able to return to Cybertron, Scourge, to bring in Unicron, a Transformer who, as also stated in the trailer, is bigger than the planet and wants to eat the Earth well. And let the battle begin.
An interesting detail is that during The last knight the president of Paramount stated that he chose not to follow Bay’s proposed plot for the sequel because it brought Unicron onto the stage, an entity he said he could not compare to anything. Thus, the suspicion arises that perhaps the reason was that Bay’s fee was slightly higher than that of newcomer Stephen Caple Jr., who has to his credit Creed 2 (2018). Transformers: Awakeningwho also sees or rather hears the voice of Michelle Yeoh as Maximal Airazor in the original, debuts today June 7th in our cinemas, two days before the American release, we leave you the official trailer in Italian and in the original. language.