Transformers 5 Megatron Image and Hot Rod Article

In this week's Entertainment Weekly there is an article with new image covering the cinematic history of Hot Rod. So as a result its a short article. However it does provide a few new story tidbits (relevant parts below). In addition, a twitter user posted a good look at Megatron in what seems to be a meeting with humans.

Alongside Mark Wahlberg’s salt-of-the-earth mechanic, Anthony Hopkins is joining the cast as Sir Edmund Burton, an astronomer who — with the help of Hot Rod — has tracked these long-forgotten connections to another scholar, Oxford professor of English literature Viviane Wembly (Laura Haddock, who played Star-Lord’s mother in Guardians of the Galaxy).

She has no idea she harbors a genetic secret that could destroy (or save) the world. “[The humans] are empowered in a way that is very different than we’ve experienced before and honestly, it’s not easy figuring out how to empower the six foot human versus the 35- or 45-foot robot,” says producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

Hot Rod has secretly been serving as her protector in the guise of her father’s 1963 Citroën DS.

“It’s a rickety old thing, but she can’t part with it because she adores it,” Haddock says of the vintage vehicle. “This car has actually been put there to watch her and feedback information to Anthony Hopkins’s character about what she’s up to and her life. So yeah, she gets kind of taken [by surprise] in a really funny, dramatic way by this Hot Rod.”

So far, the new robot doesn’t have an actor attached. “It’s still in the works,” di Bonaventura says. ...We’re trying to make our cast as international as we can,” di Bonaventura says. “We think it’s fun for the characters, it’s fun for the series, it’s fun for the fans in the different countries. So a lot of the robots are not being voiced or we’re just in the process of casting them now.”

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Season 3 Trailer, Start Date

A new trailer for Transformers: Robots in Disguise Season 3 Combiner Force is coming to Cartoon Network on April 29. The show will air in the Sunday 6:30am ET timeslot. Frankly I thought this show had been cancelled it has been so long.

Kids Explain Transformers as Voice By Peter Cullen

Below are four videos where kids try to explain Transformers...only their voices have been replaced by the voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen. Thanks to Feris O. for the links.

Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer #1

As promised on Friday, here is the new trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight. Oddly enough I think this qualifies as the first official trailer for the movie as I think the ones before where TV spots, extended TV spots, and other stuff that danced around the "official trailer" designation. Screencaps I | Screencaps II

Teaser for New Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer

Paramount has released a very quick teaser for the new trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight that will drop next Wednesday.

Bay: Transformers Is His Super Hero Film

In the below interview with Comicbook.com while at CinemaCon Michael Bay commented on filming in real IMAX 3D, the writers room where TF5 is two stories that Bay and Spielberg liked put together, hiring Isabela Moner, naming his dog after a Transformer, and getting Anthony Hopkins. I like his last line where he says "This is my super hero film. ...You can only do so much with capes and suits. You can only do so much. With Transformers you can do a lot." Thanks to Feris O. for the link.

Transformers: The Last Knight Video Demands You Rethink the Past

A new short video for Transformers: The Last Knight uses a series of microfiche styled images to suggest that Transformers have been a part of human history for much long then the movies up to this point has suggested. Thanks to Feris O. for the link.

Transformers: The Last Knight 3D Featurette

In a new video, Michael Bay tries to make the argument on why you should consider seeing the film in IMAX 3D if the option is available to you. This includes showing some behind the scenes footage and what I think are a few seconds of movie scenes we have not yet seen before. Thanks to Feris O. for the link.

Bay Confirms 14 Transformers Movie Stories, Direct Spinoff

We knew that last year's Transformers Writer's Room was considered productive but apparently we had no clue as to how productive. In a new interview from Michael Bay while at CinemaCon, he confirmed to MTV (video below) that "There are 14 stories written. And there's good stuff. So. I would like to do one of them though. It's a Transformers spinoff." He also said that Transformers: The Last Knight contains "Easter eggs for different things to come." In regards to the Bumblebee movie it would skew younger and would take place "earlier" but didn't specify if this means before all the movies or one of them.

Now this does not mean 14 scripts that are movie ready, it just means that 14 outlined story ideas that have the potential to be turned into complete scripts for future movies. Slashfilm put together what they though some of those ideas might be based on previous interviews. They included The Last Knight in the 14 story total. There are the already announced sequel/spinoff plans of the Bumblebee movie (2018), Transformers 6 (2019), Transformers 7 (2021), and Transformers 8 (2023) and Transformers One animated origin film. An an R-rated Bumblebee movie was mentioned by producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura which he described as "would be really fun. Very Quentin [Tarantino]" which Hasbro would never allow to be made but could still count in the 14 total. First I had heard but the site said di Bonaventura has also once hinted at a Roman times set Transformers movie. Still the goal for Paramount and Hasbro is to try to have a Transformers film per year for the next 8 years so it seems the writer's room locked down enough main story and spin-off ideas to at least achieve that goal in script form even if a few of those ideas never make it to the scripting stage. Thanks to Feris O. for the link.