'Transformers 5'CinemaCon Footage Shows Backstory
"Transformers" franchise director Michael Bay showed off a great deal of footage at the CinemaCon event for the upcoming fifth installment of the robo-action series, "Transformers: The Last Knight."
The 15-minute footage showed actors Mark Wahlberg, who portrays Cade; Anthony Hopkins, who plays an English astronomer and historian named Sir Edmund Burton; and Isabela Moner who is a wise street kid named Izabella who at one point in the film says goodbye to one of the robots close to her.
"Transformers: The Last Knight" will also show some of the backstory that surrounds the Bots and King Arthur's Knights of the roundtable. In fact, the CinemaCon footage showed scenes set in Medieval England where a knight was drinking his time away when a robotic dragon flew near him.
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The footage likewise transports viewers into the modern-day era where a group of kids find some robotic wreckage, but a sinister-looking drone tries to stop them.
A new robot called Squeeks is also added in the fifth installment. He is a damaged robot who cannot "transform" anymore.
During the CinemaCon, Bay said the upcoming movie is not a fifth installment, but it "feels like a brand new, fresh look into the Transformers."
The director also said that the huge scale of a "Transformers" movie is meant to be seen on the big screen. He reminds fans that this will be his last one.
"I keep saying this is my last one and I'm going out with a bang. This is a big-scale movie," he said, according to Entertainment Weekly. Bay also touts that the film is the first one to be shot entirely in IMAX 3D.
Aside from "The Last Knight," two "Transformers" films are still coming in the next two years - a Bumblebee spin-off in 2018 and a sixth "Transformers" sequel in 2019.
The three upcoming films are a result of Paramount's effort of bringing in a special writing team dedicated to produce sequels, prequels and spin-offs for the whole "Transformers" franchise.
Meanwhile, "Transformers: The Last Knight" is slated for a June 23 release.
