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News Credits: 23 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:21 pm

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.

News Credits: 54 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:29 pm

Guess who's back, back again guess who's back?

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLEOm0DZ7l/

from Tyrese's Instagram account It's Epps and he is back to bring the rain once again!

News Credits: 54 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:39 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:Bay isn't the problem, the problem is that no other director has yet stepped up to take on the mantle(directorial duties)

Why would most directors actually want to?

Not even J.J Abrams wants to do a Transformers movie (he said it in an interview some time ago) and he directed god damn Star Wars.

It's not just what we want from a movie the director themselves has to be invested in making the film something which Bay almost doesn't have anymore due to Paramount of whoever keeps dragging him in to do another one so Bay can make movies he actually wants to.

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:50 pm

Seibertronian Deadput has pointed us in the direction of the news so many of us have been waiting for. Tyrese Gibson, via Instagram has confirmed that Epps will be returning for Transformers: The Last Knight! He posts a Picture of himself with Micheal Bay and then another post with a Video of the 2. The captions are labelled as follows:

Tyrese Gibson wrote:Rumor has it............ Nah.... Robert Epps is back!!!!!! #T5 summer 2017 just got even more interesting...... @MichaelBay aka #MrImAlwaysAwesome

How about that? Let us know what you think of this latest news in the comments section below!

News Credits: 13 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:01 pm

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

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:25 pm

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

News Credits: 273 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:47 pm

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.

News Credits: 191 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:52 pm

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.

News Credits: 37 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:50 pm

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

News Credits: 273 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:31 pm

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.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:33 pm

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.

News Credits: 37 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:52 pm

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.

News Credits: 54 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:06 pm

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.

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:14 pm

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

News Credits: 37 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:26 pm

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.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:34 pm

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.

News Credits: 191 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:37 pm

#TheLastShirt

News Credits: 174 · Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:42 pm

Kurona wrote:#TheLastShirt

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

News Credits: 22 · Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:06 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Kurona wrote:#TheLastShirt

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

Wrong franchise, genius. :-P

News Credits: 15 · Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:43 am

"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.

News Credits: 174 · Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:19 pm

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 >:oP

News Credits: 56 · Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:24 pm

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.

News Credits: 174 · Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:42 pm

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...

Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:38 pm

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

News Credits: 15 · Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:50 am

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?