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In other Transformers: The Last Knight news, we have a new piece by Empire magazine featuring an interview with Paramount's robot franchise producer Ian Bryce! The full piece can be read here, but we've selected some snippets below on his collaboration with Michael Bay, the effects, the locations they used for the movie, and the future of the franchise. Check it out!

How would you describe what you do with Michael?

It’s sort of my job to help guide him and show him how we can get there efficiently. But he’s got a really good tummy himself. He knows what his day is and then I help manage the big picture for him and figure out how to get him from one place to the other, getting through it on time. Mike is prodigiously fast. The minute he arrives he starts shooting and he doesn’t stop until he goes home. For the size of movie and the scope and scale of the movie, our schedules are very competitive.

[...]

What was it like working on the Arthurian battle?

It was really fun actually, because neither one of us had done it. If you’re fans of movies like Gladiator, The Longest Day, any period battle sequences... The trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience’s attention. It was shot in three days but we jammed a lot of stuff into that sequence with horse stunts and archers and fire and spinning balls, the trebuchet. We got a lot in there.

[...]

What are your thoughts on how this Transformers universe is opening up and spiralling out?

The Bumblebee spin-off is scheduled to shoot this summer and release next year. The conceiving of it was done previously, back in the writers room, so now they’re beginning to execute that. I think each one is somewhat reliant on the last one. If this movie is well received then you make that judgement when the movie comes out and push to the next movie. It’s been that way throughout the franchise, we never really committed to the next one until the last one came out and we saw what happened. We’ve taken a one step at a time approach, trying to be faithful to the audience. If they still love it, we keep doing it.

partholon wrote:and im REALLY worried about grimlock in this now.

Grimlock was already confirmed by the producer to serve as comic relief, so set any expectation you have of properly utilising him to an all time low.

william-james88 wrote:

partholon wrote:and im REALLY worried about grimlock in this now.

Grimlock was already confirmed by the producer to serve as comic relief, so set any expectation you have of properly utilising him to an all time low.

He does get action scenes though and although we have not seen it yet some people got to see him and Slug take out some human vehicles.

Also they never said he would only be comedy relief he and the other Dinobots are knights after all I'm sure they will come into play.

In even more news for the Transformers: The Last Knight live-action movie, we have uploaded a full gallery of over 1000 screencaps of the latest international trailer (posted again below for your viewing convenience) featuring Grimlock, Quintessa, Bumblebee's rebuild, a lot of humans (from Carmichael to Wahlberg and Moner, via Hopkins and Haddock), Cogman, Quintessa, Bayhem, Explosions, Optimus Prime slaughtering around, Megatron doing kinda the same, and various ominous bits and humorous bits.

Check the full works by clicking on any of the images below, and let us know what you made of the trailer in the Energon Pub discussion!

Cogman is top tier Transformer he is definitely my fave of the new characters so far he's great and I hope we get to see him in action besides breaking Crosshairs finger.

Also from what I saw at the Imax preview Carmichael's character isn't horrible like Leo or one of the Twins so he is tolerable unless you super despise every comedy relief character in all movies and games he does have some actual funny bits from what I saw.

Some of the kids (The short kid talking about finding dead robots, the one "hot wiring" the car,) are not as tolerable and they tend to swear a bunch which is unfortunate although the tall kid who has a crush on Issy's character is ok and the last kid I don't know since he did not say or do much.

You'll probably hate them if you hate kids in movies but their not the worse humans in the franchise and their not in the movie long only for what I'm assuming is the first hour or half hour of the movie.

Just saying for those who worry about the side character humans although this is my opinion so anyone else might think different.

A day and a half later and a million watches later, I'm still filled with absolute joy every time I watch the trailer. I wanted a trailer like this for the TF movies for a while. I always thought if the trailers for AOE had actually matched the tone of the movie itself, a lot of people who hate it wouldn't have been as disappointed by it.

Anyone else catch that Barricade was the bot beat up by Grimlock in dino mode towards the end of the trailer?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Anyone else catch that Barricade was the bot beat up by Grimlock in dino mode towards the end of the trailer?

Yup it also seems to happen during the scene where Mark and Izzy are being chased by him.

But he survives his attack somehow since he is in London later and with Onslaught and Hooligan.

barricade has a lot of luck

Bumblebee21 wrote:barricade has a little energon, and lot of luck

Fixed that for ya.

Just from the trailer, I'm seeing lots of references to all things Transformers. 1. Optimus cutting the heads off those horned sentries makes me think of issue # 74 of the Marvel comic series when Optimus and Scorponok face off against the hordes of Unicron. 2. Quintessa has the look of Botanica from Beast Machines. 3. Izzy sitting on Hound's shoulder makes me think of Miko and Bulkhead. 4. Bumblebee getting blown up and put back together reminds me of the original marvel G.I.Joe versus Transformers crossover where G.I.Joe blows up Bumblebee and then he gets rebuilt into Goldbug. 5. Megatron just seems more G1 to me. That trailer shot of him with his fusion cannon just looks like G1 Megs. 6. The broken planet Cybertron coming to Earth makes me think of Transformers Prime. Maybe Unicron is in Earth (that horn looking thing in the first trailer) and Cybertron/Primus is coming to cleanse the Earth of Unicron??? 7. Cade and the junkyard is like the new cartoon Robots in Disguise. 8. Quintessa is the name of the Quintesson's home planet in G1 that they blew up. 9. The Quintessons revived Optimus in 'Dark Awakening' and used him as their puppet where it looks like Quintessa turns Optimus evil in TLK. 10. And the whole King Arthur theme, there was the G1 cartoon 'A Decepticon raider in King Arthur's court'. Anyways, i am so looking forward to this movie! One more month!

I never cared much for movie Prime's new look (he looks like he has moobies and is wearing a bikini top), but that's an awesome shot.

Where are shots of Hot Rod?

Rodimus Prime wrote:

I never cared much for movie Prime's new look (he looks like he has moobies and is wearing a bikini top), but that's an awesome shot.

Where are shots of Hot Rod?

Click through the gallery.

Fellow Seibertronian IAPETUS_PRIME has pointed us towards the newly revamped Hasbro Transformers website, and the new Transformers: The Last Knight mini-game that has been set up to promote the live-action movie (coming in just over a month) - Quest for Optimus Prime! The game includes the Glyph Hunt (linked only in name to the TRU Mission to Cybertron sub-line) and the Ancient Symbols sections, plus a third to be unlocked on May 29 - check some screenshots out below!

Leaving Earth, Optimus Prime planted a beacon on the moon. Sqweeks received a coded message from that beacon. The message comes from outer space and it might be from Optimus Prime. Sqweeks needs your help to decipher the message. Will you embark on this quest and find out if Optimus Prime is in danger?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Where are shots of Hot Rod?

Theres a shot of him and hound fighting megatron in the trailer gallery. Post it here when you find it

Infernocus....anyone?

Twitter user Jamie.k has spotted a new promotional cutout stand for Transformers: The Last Knight, featuring Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, at a cinema / movie theatre in Thailand. Check it out mirrored below!

Very cool! I need to make that hammer for my Bumblebee figures.

Thanks to the Transformers fan page from Singapore, Planet Iacon, we have some additional info and images of those new Transformers-inspired Coca Cola Cans. Their images show many, if not all, or the designs available, as well as a new collector's box, similar to the one included in the Shadow Optimus Promo, that we haven't seen before. It includes some sort of steelbook case and three cans. It's unknown at this time what the steelbook is, and if this collector's set is also a raffle or giveaway, as the Iacon post doesn't share a lot of info on the products. Here are the images!

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Very cool! I need to make that hammer for my Bumblebee figures.

I agree. The Bammer (huehue) is a really cool weapon for him

From We Got This Covered, once more, we have a new TV spot for Transformers: The Last Knight - featuring Bumblebee's new trick (which reminds us of some other univerzzzally hated characterzzz) as we got glimpses of in the latest international trailer.

Check it out below, and let us know what you think of the character and the movie in the Energon Pub!

Ahh, Jazz...

looking at the way the explosion is reversing itself, i'd say it looks like someone is screwing around with Time itself.

This seems less of an official spot and more like somebody took the last bit of the trailer and posted it as it's own video.

Sabrblade wrote:Ahh, Jazz...

While it does seem unfair that Bee can live while Jazz died the difference between them when I thought about were that Jazz torso was "ripped" in half like it wasn't meant to detach without consent while Bee only "detached" his part cleanly by joint within his own power.

So the gist of it is that I think it's a "damage" thing and it would be different if say somebody shot Bee in the neck and made his head fall off it would probably kill him then.

It's probably going to either be an upgrade he gets recently or a one time thing he can only do once safely...doesn't make the trick any less dumb though.

Deadput wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Ahh, Jazz...

While it does seem unfair that Bee can live while Jazz died the difference between them when I thought about were that Jazz torso was "ripped" in half like it wasn't meant to detach without consent while Bee only "detached" his part cleanly by joint within his own power.

So the gist of it is that I think it's a "damage" thing and it would be different if say somebody shot Bee in the neck and made his head fall off it would probably kill him then.

It's probably going to either be an upgrade he gets recently or a one time thing he can only do once safely...doesn't make the trick any less dumb though.

Thank you for taking a facetious post in a completely serious manner.

looks like bumble bee got extremis from tony stark

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Ahh, Jazz...

While it does seem unfair that Bee can live while Jazz died the difference between them when I thought about were that Jazz torso was "ripped" in half like it wasn't meant to detach without consent while Bee only "detached" his part cleanly by joint within his own power.

So the gist of it is that I think it's a "damage" thing and it would be different if say somebody shot Bee in the neck and made his head fall off it would probably kill him then.

It's probably going to either be an upgrade he gets recently or a one time thing he can only do once safely...doesn't make the trick any less dumb though.

Thank you for taking a facetious post in a completely serious manner.

That's the pot calling the kettle black...

I am rather intrigued by this new development, though. It seems to defy all previous thoughts on the Bayverse Transformers being able to take damage. Is this something KSI cooked up in the vein of how they constructed Galvatron and the clones in the last film? Or something maybe Prime did to Bee after returning from his visit with not-Botanica? I'm excited to find out. I'm excited for this movie in general.

SG Roadbuster wrote:looking at the way the explosion is reversing itself, i'd say it looks like someone is screwing around with Time itself.

Same thing I got when whalberg said that was mistake

Just made this short stop motion between Barricade and Bumblebee! Pls give it a watch if you can! https://youtu.be/Z_SvgsZcoeo

PrimeVsPrime wrote:Just made this short stop motion between Barricade and Bumblebee! Pls give it a watch if you can! https://youtu.be/Z_SvgsZcoeo

Nice to see you here, dude and as I said on Twitter, I love this video and how cool Barricade is in it and a nice touch with Bee's new trick too.

Starting the week with some Transformers: The Last Knight news, we have that Empire Magazine article (scanned by TFW2005 user Temenos) we've seen being thrown about for a while now, that accompanies the various online versions and interviews. Talking to Michael Bay directly and the writers for the movie itself, the piece covers production for TLK, and adds information about the director, the creation process and future Transformers projects with Paramount, such as the Bumblebee solo movie - apparently set in the 1980s, and probably aimed at a younger audience - and an animated prequel on Transformers lore and mythology, set on Cybertron as rumoured - the writers for Ant-Man, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, will be behind it.

Some other stand-out take-aways from the piece: The final version for the story ultimately came down to writers Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down), Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (both on Iron Man). Two pitches made into the story, but three storylines are present overall (King Arthur, WWII, and a third - probably the space/Quintessa material). Multiple time settings were considered in the writer's room pitches, and it seems that an Ancient Rome movie may appear at some point. The sixth movie was drafted before TLK was completely polished up, so it's bound to change before actual production.

Also, Michael Bay lost his hair and his dog during production of this film. And John Turturro's Simmons character is based on Bay.

I swear I've heard that Simmons was based on Bay before.

Back during the OT days I think but I don't remember where I read it.

But I do know I heard this before that I'm certain of.

Do I defend Perceptor because I love him, or decide not to because of MTMTE #50...

Ah well, at least they had the sense to recognise TFA Ratbat is AWESOME

Reading the article. Comments below.

* Bay lost three inches of his hair filming a fire sequence for the film 13 Hours, not TLK. This was right before he met up with the writers over Skype on the first day of the Writer Room back in June 2015.

* So it was Bay who convinced Paramount to put together the Writers Room since, in his eyes, the Transformers film franchise was "getting stale" and "gonna die" at the rate it was going.

* The writer of Black Hawk Down and the writers of Iron Man 1 being the writers of TLK give me some sense of hope that this film might possibly be a step up from the preceding sequels.

* Like Bay back in the mid-2000s, the Writers Room team had to go through "Transformers School", in which the article says that they went through "14 billion years of history".

* Prior to the Writers Room, Ken Nolan hadn't even seen any of the TF movies yet. So right before he was due for the Writers Room, he binge-watched all four of them and "almost went to an insane asylum."

* I'm a bit hesitant on the notion of this film squishing three treatments together (King Arthur, WWII, and Quintessa), as AOE already felt like 2+ films squished together haphazardly.

* Santiago Cabrera is playing Merlin? O...kay?

* In that little bit on the left side of the third page, what do these people got against the Insecticons? Even the Tom Hanks movie Big established that robots turning into insects was cool.

* The Bumblebee film having a younger tone sounds promising.

* The writers of Ant-Man doing the animated Cybertron prequel is the best news of this article yet!

* Lorezo di Bonaventura immediately shot down any notion of an R-rated Transformers film. Good! Though, sadly, Bay likes the idea.

* Though I agree with Bay that orange is an unattractive lighting color, I wish he didn't feel that he had to cuss out his own people.

* The notion of John Turturro having based Simmons on Bay is mentioned here as something that was admitted back when the first film was made.

* Heh, Turturro previously wanted to cast Bay in a film that he (Turturro) was directing, and if Bay hadn't been in Cuba filming TLK at the time, he would have done it instead of having to turn it down. He would have played a famous hairdresser and would have shot a guy in the butt.

I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

SlyTF1 wrote:I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

Robot on robot violence doesn't seem to require an R-rating as seen in the previous movies but lots of close ups of humans getting squished under foot and and blown to bits and yeeeeah! Megatron picking up a human by the head and popping it like a zit. brutal :O

Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

Robot on robot violence doesn't seem to require an R-rating as seen in the previous movies but lots of close ups of humans getting squished under foot and and blown to bits and yeeeeah! Megatron picking up a human by the head and popping it like a zit. brutal :O

Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

"Oh, Shit, what are we gonna do now?!"

Kurona wrote:"Oh, ****, what are we gonna do now?!"

Despite the suit he's wearing, Spike is not a Transformer.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:"Oh, ****, what are we gonna do now?!"

Despite the suit he's wearing, Spike is not a Transformer.

Are you sure about that?





Spike Witwicky - G1 1987 Toy Gallery

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

Have you not been watching these movies?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Skids and Mudflap the Stereotypical Twins?" "No." "I thought not. It's not a story the True-fans would tell you. It's a Bay legend."

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

Robot on robot violence doesn't seem to require an R-rating as seen in the previous movies but lots of close ups of humans getting squished under foot and and blown to bits and yeeeeah! Megatron picking up a human by the head and popping it like a zit. brutal :O

Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

I want human violence and Tarantino style dialogue.

Also, Sonic is doing some Last Knight promotional stuff: https://www.sonicdrivein.com/-/colorchangingslushes

Hey guys, look what I found at my local Sonic today. I would submit this as news, but I'm not sure how to put the image in the news report.

EDIT: Nevermind, submitted as news. Also, there's a Transformers/sonic sweepstakes that begins on the 29th, using a "sticker code" that my Bumblebee slush didn't come with. Guess they're not putting the codes on the slushes until the 29th.

" Darn Sonic and them posting spoilers about Bee becoming evil with that purple slushie " /s

But really ugh grape.

Deadput wrote:" Darn Sonic and them posting spoilers about Bee becoming evil with that purple slushie " /s

But really ugh grape.

I don't know about spoilers, but I can verify that the Bumblebee slush is delicious!

Movies and Frozen Treats are two staples of summer, or at least someone at the Transformers Last Knight branding office thought so, as TLK-themed Slushes are now appearing at Sonic restaurants! Thanks to a submitted photo from EvasionModeBumblebee, we can see that three drinks are currently for sale, one inspired by Megatron, one by Optimus Prime, and the last by Bumblebee. It's unknown if the licence deal will reach to other Sonic products (E.G. toys for their kids meal), but if any update like that is issued, we'll post it here on Seibertron.com!

Is Sonic a US thing because I've never heard of them here in Canada?

Is it a convenience store or a restaurant?

Deadput wrote:Is Sonic a US thing because I've never heard of them here in Canada?

Is it a convenience store or a restaurant?

I think it's a just a US thing? It's a restaurant set up like those old fifties drive ins, where there's no inside and people will bring food out to you. They have killer tater tots.

It's a popular video game series with quite a few good games. I'd recommend Generations and 3&K myself.

Kurona wrote:It's a popular video game series with quite a few good games. I'd recommend Generations and 3&K myself.

Slushin' around at the speed of sound.

Microraptor wrote:

Deadput wrote:Is Sonic a US thing because I've never heard of them here in Canada?

Is it a convenience store or a restaurant?

I think it's a just a US thing? It's a restaurant set up like those old fifties drive ins, where there's no inside and people will bring food out to you. They have killer tater tots.

Bingo! Ironically, I live right down the street from a sonic, which is directly across the street from a Valvoline, who is also running a TF promotion There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere, I'm sure.