Review Transformers V: The Last Knight (2017)

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Transformers: The Last Knight
(also known as Transformers 5) is an upcoming 2017 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line created by Hasbro. It will be the fifth installment of the live-action Transformers film series, and a direct sequel to 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction. The film is being directed by Michael Bay, with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles from Age of Extinction alongside Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro from the first three movies. This will be the fifth and final Transformers film to be directed by Michael Bay.

The film is scheduled to be released on June 23, 2017 by Paramount Pictures.



 
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New Full Trailer: “Transformers: The Last Knight”


Paramount Pictures has released the new full trailer for Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” which offers a bunch of new footage from the ridiculously explosive sequel.




This fifth entry in the big screen franchise shatters the core myths of the series and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone and the key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.

An unlikely alliance of Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock) are all that can save us. Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Jerrod Carmichael, and Isabela Moner also star in the film which opens June 23rd.
 

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An unlikely alliance of Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock) are all that can save us. Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Jerrod Carmichael, and Isabela Moner also star in the film which opens June 23rd.
When you say that this unlikely alliance is all that can save us, what exactly do you mean?

Save us from yet another TRANSFORMERS film?
 

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New “Transformers” Art Pushes Nazi Element


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Paramount Pictures has debuted a new poster, TV spot and artwork from the upcoming “Transformers: The Last Knight” which hints at the film’s historical elements more.


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As earlier trailers have indicated, the Transformers have been around on this planet for centuries and have been previously involved in the affairs of mankind. The new material today indicates they played a key role helping the Allies defeat the Nazis during WW2.

The story of new film has Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), Bumblebee, an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock) proving to be the key to saving a future in which humans and Transformers are at war.

“Transformers: The Last Knight” opens in cinemas on June 21st.
 

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Bay: Why Fifth “Transformers” Is Better Than Fourth


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While Michael Bay’s first “Transformers” was somewhat liked, the subsequent sequels have struggled to find any redeeming qualities among film fans even as the movies continue to break box-office records.

The fourth film, “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” saw a shift in a new direction but one that wasn’t quite sure where it wanted to go. In the wake of that, Paramount assembled a writers room where a bunch of talented scribes laid out the future of the franchise for the next decade.

Armed with that blueprint, this year’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” aims to claw back some respect for the series. Speaking with Empire, Bay admits the fourth film didn’t quite click and this one gets things back on track:

“[Age of Extinction was] kind of an outlier. Because of losing Shia and just figuring out where we were gonna go. It was testing the waters a little bit. This gets us back in the groove.”

Helping that along is the return of franchise staples John Turturro and Josh Duhamel. Amusingly in the same piece, some of the participants in the writer’s room reveal that having Bay on hand meant that whatever ideas they came up with got executed quickly.

Co-writer Ken Nolan said they came up with an English castle-dweller character called Sir Edmund Burton and: “we said, ‘He’s an Anthony Hopkins-type character’ and two days later Michael’s like, ‘So, we’ve got Anthony Hopkins.’… It’s good to be Bay, everybody says yes.”

The trade also confirms a new character in this outing is Cogman, a psychotic four-and-a-half-foot robot butler which is a personal favourite of franchise producer Steven Spielberg.
 

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One More “Transformers: The Last Knight” Trailer


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Yet one more trailer for Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” has arrived today, yet again featuring the robots in disguise battling each other along with giant spaceships.

In between all that is Mark Wahlberg and Josh Duhamel returning, and Anthony Hopkins popping by for some exposition.

The new film revolves around the secret history of Transformers on Earth, a history that goes back centuries and deals with how the creatures have secretly been working with humans to shape history.

Laura Haddock, Isabella Moner, Stanley Tucci, and John Turturro also star in the film opening June 21st.



 

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Wahlberg Doesn’t Think Bay Will Quit “Transformers”

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Both actor Mark Wahlberg and director Michael Bay have announced in the past week that “Transformers: The Last Knight” will be their last outing with the franchise.

That is the first time Wahlberg has expressed such sentiment, but this marks the third time Bay has said he would exit – he said the same during the press rounds for both the third and fourth films in the series.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Wahlberg himself is as dubious as the rest of us as to whether this is really the end of Bay’s involvement in helming entries in the series:

“It’s one of those things where Michael has built this entire universe right, and he will decide what he wants to do and how he wants to do it.

Right now he says he doesn’t want to do another film and he says that after every film because they are so difficult to make and he pretty much has to do it single-handedly, even with all the help that he has because all of the movie is in his mind.

So he’ll decide that and I would be hard pressed to see him walk away and put it in somebody else’s control and care.”

Bay certainly won’t be helming the first spin-off in the works, “Bumblebee,” which Travis Knight is set to direct and is currently targeting a June 8th 2018 release.
 

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“Transformers 6” Is Still In Development?


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Longtime “Transformers” franchise producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura indicates that despite talk last month that spin-off “Bumblebee” has served as a soft reboot of the “Transformers” cinematic universe – they’re not ready to ditch the previous film formula just yet.


Before “Bumblebee” came “Transformers: The Last Knight,” Michael Bay’s fifth and final directorial effort for the franchise and one that hoped to be the launchpad for a whole slew of new “Transformers” films. The movie was shredded by critics and audiences held little interest with the movie’s box-office dropping precipitously, seemingly scuttling those grand cinematic universe ambitions.

Speaking to Japanese film site Cinema (via Movieweb) this past week, Di Bonaventura confirmed that not only is a “Bumblebee” sequel being made but also another film in “the main family series” which will retain the continuity of ‘The Last Knight’. That project is being developed right now:

“We are already working on two projects and both have scripts under development. One is the latest in the main family series following the events of Transformers: The Last Knight and the other is a sequel to Bumblebee. So, we are thinking of films where Optimus Prime and Bumblebee will be the buddies, but when Optimus and Bumblebee are the movies of the protagonists … how human beings get involved in their drama In the first place, the size is different between human beings and theirs …. It’s a worrying point (laughs).”

Speaking separately to Collider, di Bonaventura says the reception they got to “Bumblebee,” especially from long term fans with some of them complaining about the lack of action compared to Bay’s film, is part of the reason for this return towards more familiar territory next time around:

“Several lessons have come out of this [Bumblebee]. One is that we have the freedom to tell almost any story. The other is that, how strongly the audience identified with the strength of character and emotion. I know the next Transformer, our attempt anyway, is to sort of do a fusion of Bumblebee and the Bay movies…a little more Bayhem

And a little bit more of the character falling in love within the emotional dynamic of the movie. One of the things I want to do – and I hope we pull it off – is, we did it with Bumblebee because he’s so cute and he’s so accessible, but he can’t talk. I think the more human we can make these characters, the more people are going to like them.”

“Bumblebee” closed out its theatrical run with $459 million based on a $135 million budget along with the franchise’s best reviews to date.
 
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