Transformers Universe: Bumblebee News Roundup

Tyrannacon wrote:Two things going on in the world of the Transformers Universe: Bumblebee film here, the first is that MercuryNews goes over the history of the filming in Santa Cruz and the subsequent renaming to "Brighton Falls" for the Bumblebee production itself. The article speaks of how filming in Santa Cruz is important for the local economy too. It's worth a read through for those interested in film and the impact on a local economy with it. Here is a little blurb about that fact:

“Having movies filmed in Santa Cruz is great for the overall local economy. Local jobs, visitor serving retail and restaurants all have a boost whenever a film crew comes to town,” Lipscomb said. “Having numerous films shot in Santa Cruz raises our profile in general and can be a draw for tourists as well. Yes, we highly support having Santa Cruz as a location for the film industry.”

The second if the announcement from the CBS local affiliate in California that filming in Santa Cruz has wrapped.



Be sure to follow the links if you are interested and discuss it in our Energon Pub forums!

Yes - because I've been pining for more news about Bumblebee....

Peter Cullen voice confirmed in Bumblebee movie

Fellow Seibertronian Stuartmaximus has found a youtube video from CineMovie which has Peter Cullen confirming that you will hear his voice in the upcoming Bumblebee Live Action film. He is short and to the point with his "yes" as you can see below.
We do not know if that means the film will begin in current times and be told as an older tale or if we will hear the voice through narration or even if Peter Cullen will be voicing Optimus Prime at all, though it is what everyone would assume.

I can see this as a cameo from when he contacts Bee, a flashback from a battle on Cybertron, or Cullen mimics Stan Lee.

Always thought that Prime would have a small cameo in this film.

They don't even need to show him it could probably be just his voice like the narrations from the first few films.

Maybe he could be voicing Ironhide like in the G1 cartoon?

Etseterrestrial wrote:Maybe he could be voicing Ironhide like in the G1 cartoon?

But Ironhide in the movies doesn't sound like G1 Ironhide.

Sabrblade wrote:

Etseterrestrial wrote:Maybe he could be voicing Ironhide like in the G1 cartoon?

But Ironhide in the movies doesn't sound like G1 Ironhide.

Same can be said about starscream and megatron and soundwave and many others

dragons wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Etseterrestrial wrote:Maybe he could be voicing Ironhide like in the G1 cartoon?

But Ironhide in the movies doesn't sound like G1 Ironhide.

Same can be said about starscream and megatron and soundwave and many others

Yes, but the point here is not a "it's not like muh G1" general statement, it's saying that Movie Ironhide not sounding like G1 Ironhide is evidence against Peter Cullen voicing Movie Ironhide like G1 Ironhide.

I doubt that Cullen would voice Ironhide since we have Jess Harnell for that and the big guy doesn't land on Earth until 2007.

Quantum Surge wrote:I doubt that Cullen would voice Ironhide since we have Jess Harnell for that and the big guy doesn't land on Earth until 2007.

Unless that one art piece in TLK retcons Ironhide as having been on Earth in the 19th Century.

Maybe Optimus is already on earth then leaves at some point.

My guess would be opening & ending narration possibly a flashback or transmission giving bee new orders

Whooptee doo! Who cares?

Aimless Misfire wrote:Whooptee doo! Who cares?

Maybe people got used to him to voice Optimus,but the fact that Peter Cullen still returns to the role should not be taken for granted.

TulioDude wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Whooptee doo! Who cares?

Maybe people got used to him to voice Optimus,but the fact that Peter Cullen still returns to the role should not be taken for granted.

The transformers community can get very ungrateful and will always ask for more. its just a thing to expect now.

We have another small update from the set of Transformers Universe: Bumblebee, as fellow Seibertronian Scottimus Prime has pointed us towards the Instagram account of lead actor Hailee Steinfeld and the latest image posted - featuring a similar wheel and dashboard layout for Bumblebee as we first saw him in the 2007 live action movie! Check it out below.

Thats neat!It would be cool to replicate these details in a replica.

Funny seeing that again, when I saw the first TF film as a wee little boy, I always thought that pressing the Autobot insignia would cause Bumblebee to transform. Maybe it was because it looked like a separate piece when Sam lightly pressed it.

Quantum Surge wrote:Funny seeing that again, when I saw the first TF film as a wee little boy, I always thought that pressing the Autobot insignia would cause Bumblebee to transform. Maybe it was because it looked like a separate piece when Sam lightly pressed it.

It was a separate piece, yes. It was the button for the car's horn.

We have some more news from the current location of Transformers Universe: Bumblebee before moving to Long Beach next week, featuring some more agent-looking types - rumoured to be part of Sector 7 as previously seen in the news - Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Hailee Steinfeld, and John Cena (also via Just Jared and a number of Instagram and Twitter accounts) revealing the latter to be part of the S7 crew, and his character's name to be Burns. A reference to Rescue Bots, perhaps? Or just a coincidence? Join the discussion in the Energon Pub for more!

with the whole Burns thing, it wouldn't be the first time that the live action films have shoehorned references from the various transformers shows/properties ect in there, so it comes as no surprise really

I wonder who the grumpy looking kid in the metal band shirt is supposed to be.

But we all know who Burns is...

Yeah I had to...sorry not sorry

In very different news, we have a handful of images from Instagram - courtesy of Twitter account Steinfeld News - featuring Hailee Steinfeld from Transformers Universe: Bumblebee and a number of location shots from the current production of the movie, which we learn is actually very close to completion (in terms of principal shoots). Check it al out below!

In the latest Bumblebee movie news (which admittedly isn't a lot, since the principal filming is close to finishing) we have a couple of posts from the Twitter account of SteinfeldNews, which keeps up with news regarding the human star of the movie, as well as an Instagram post from Hailee Steinfeld herself! Fellow cast member Jason Drucker also posted on Instagram; a picture of the actor sporting a rather appropriate piece of headgear. Check them out below!

Please let this, along with the classic vw beetle that's been seen, be an indicator of a redesign and reboot. Please please... You can have them styled like their g1 forms and still look awesome. Pleaaaaase...

KVO Prime

KVO Prime wrote:Please let this, along with the classic vw beetle that's been seen, be an indicator of a redesign and reboot. Please please... You can have them styled like their g1 forms and still look awesome. Pleaaaaase...

KVO Prime

Watch live action based g1 designs boring and blocky mess we have new fans of transformers bots look realistic by boring cartoony mess my family they like transformers movies WHY bots don't look cartoony boring blocky mess watching lego stop motion you say transformers to non fan who does not watch cartoons back in 1999 they think cartoon they will not go see it if bots look g1 do you think new fans from these will go see this movie if bots big boring lego stop motion CARTOON look he'll no get over it you want this movie succeed or fail reading your comment you must want this fail have bots look cartoony looks them how many countless differnt looks did batman go through in comics and in movies new looks changing with times if fans had there way batman would have kept underwear over his costume and it will watching live action serious batman version of Adam west.,

My family do not like cartoons and anime but my father cousin watched ghost in shell live action movie why it isn't live action nothing about those characters in movie look cartoony for them if characters in live action ghost in shell movie look cartoony to them they would NOT go see it can't deal with change that comic books have gone through to deal with change of there characters look modern and realistic stick with comics and cartoons where everything looks boring and blocky if that's what you and NON REALISTIC

I don't quite know what the unpunctuated mess of a rant above is trying to explain, but I hope the movies manage to incorporate a few more Generation One design cues. I've never been offended by the messy "trash robot" look, but giving Bumblebee some horns or placing some lights on his feet would not be bad at all.

Bombilation wrote:I don't quite know what the unpunctuated mess of a rant above is trying to explain, but I hope the movies manage to incorporate a few more Generation One design cues. I've never been offended by the messy "trash robot" look, but giving Bumblebee some horns or placing some lights on his feet would not be bad at all.

Bumblebee has some form of horns actually. They're small and subtle.

Budder Prime wrote:
Bumblebee has some form of horns actually. They're small and subtle.

This




While a few throwbacks in hte design would be nice,I dont think they have to all the way and give us a robot with the G1 proportions.

Yeah, I don't want or need something like this:

According to online news source for the entertainment industry Deadline, we have another cast member joining Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr and more - with a dip back into the 1980s and the classic G1 Bumblebee Volkswagen design for at least this one prequel movie. Actor John Ortiz, recently seen in Kong: Skull Island, has been cast in a yet unknown role! Find out more about the news below, and let us know what your thoughts are on this movie so far.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor John Ortiz has landed two roles. He’ll first join Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena in Paramount’s Bumblebee, the first spinoff of the Transformers franchise. The pic, which will bow in theaters Dec. 21, 2018, has Travis Knight directing from a script by Christina Hodson.

It’s set in 1987, where Bumblebee, who is refuged in a junkyard, is discovered and revived by Charlie (Steinfeld) who, on the cusp of turning 18, is trying to find her place in the world. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis.

My bet is that he is one of government guys!

Hey, that's the guy from AVP Requium

Hailee Steinfeld, the lead actress in the upcoming 2018 Bumblebee live action film, has posted new images on her instagram account regarding the wrap up said film. Firstly, a wrap up party means that the shoot is over. Of course, it is now time for all that editing and addition of our very favourite CG characters into the movie.

Speaking of which, this wrap up party gives us our very first look at Bumblebee's face in the film which shows differences from the other iterations we have seen. It was shown in the title card which shows the logo and also finally announces the actual name of the film, Bumblebee: The Movie. As said, the face on the title card is similar to what we would expect from a Bumblebee face but the head crest is significantly different from before, with a shape mimicking the front of a Volkswagen Beetle, the alt mode Bumblebee will have in the film.

The logo was then reposted on twitter through various users. You can check out the title card below, enjoy!

Really like what they did with his head, little homage to the volkswagon beetle design is really nice a works great with him.

I digging it.

Part of me feels that Bumblebee the Movie is not the final title though.

Meh looks ok

Yeah. Pass. I'm pretty much over the Bayformers universe. I felt like someone owed me an apology after the last movie, I just wasn't sure who. I have no doubt this one will be just as nonsensical.

Brokebot wrote:Yeah. Pass. I'm pretty much over the Bayformers universe. I felt like someone owed me an apology after the last movie, I just wasn't sure who. I have no doubt this one will be just as nonsensical.

Even though Michael Bay is NOT directing the Bumblebee movie?

Seibertron wrote:

Brokebot wrote:Yeah. Pass. I'm pretty much over the Bayformers universe. I felt like someone owed me an apology after the last movie, I just wasn't sure who. I have no doubt this one will be just as nonsensical.

Even though Michael Bay is NOT directing the Bumblebee movie?

It's still the Bayformers universe, so there really no reason to expect anything more than a new flavor of explosion porn.
Second verse, same as the first.

+ he may not be directing, but he's still involved in some capacity

but saying that...i'm trying to remain optimistic with this one

Brokebot wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Brokebot wrote:Yeah. Pass. I'm pretty much over the Bayformers universe. I felt like someone owed me an apology after the last movie, I just wasn't sure who. I have no doubt this one will be just as nonsensical.

Even though Michael Bay is NOT directing the Bumblebee movie?

It's still the Bayformers universe, so there really no reason to expect anything more than a new flavor of explosion porn.
Second verse, same as the first.

I take it you never saw Kubo and the Two Strings.

I haven't seen Kubo either! but I'm sure what we'll get as a result will be reasonable

[/quote]I take it you never saw Kubo and the Two Strings.[/quote]

What do they transform into?

Dunno but you messed that quote up there! you only need one / and that's the one at the end, the first one's not supposed to have a / in it

Brokebot wrote:

I take it you never saw Kubo and the Two Strings.

What do they transform into?

A fantastically-directed movie.

I like that little Bee head design. Looks nice!

I'm interested to see where this one goes. TLK was definitely a let down the more I watched it and thought on it, but I'm hopeful maybe this movie can help pull it back

Fan-made teaser.It looks really nice!

By way of online media and entertainment magazine IGN, we have an interview with the lead character and actor for the upcoming Bumblebee: The Movie - the prequel to the live-action series from Paramount featuring the Transformers, set in the 1980s and the first directed and written by an entirely different creative team (Travis Knight and Christina Hodson, respectively) - and her experience with the production and shooting, the latter of which has concluded.

While perhaps the most notable snippet from the piece, which you can read in full here, is a hint at this being a whole new franchise (read: series of movies, probably trilogy), there are some interesting nuggets throughout about both Steinfeld and director Travis Knight, some of which are copied below!

“It's very character-driven and storyline-driven, which is good. I think will be interesting to see it play out because you still get the action and the Transformers themselves. There's a whole lot in it for the Transformers fans that I think they'll love, but it's definitely about storyline and characters.”

[...]

“It was definitely a process. With his background in animation, he was able to see, visually, a final product. It was nice to have somebody that could verbally translate what that was. But it was difficult. It was hard, I think, for both of us to sort of maneuver,” she explained. “Not only was this something completely new to me but it was something completely new to him and a different, you know, a different way. It was definitely a work in progress but I think we got a good thing going and hopefully, we'll see what happens.”