Bumblebee Spinoff Will Be A More 'Intimate' Story

Michael Bay may be bowing out of the Transformers franchise with Transformers: The Last Knight, but that doesn't mean that we won't be getting any more films with the Robots in Disguise. Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight will be directing a Bumblebee spinoff, and it promises to be different from any other Transformers movie that's already come out.

Talking to ScreenRant, Lorenzo di Bonaventura says:

"I don't want to give away too much about it but we're making a very distinctly different type of Transformers movie. It's a more intimate movie. It's a little bit like Iron Giant which I worked on many years ago. It's a smaller story but it's still about these larger issues, the same sort of titanic clashes occur. But it's a female lead, the relationship she and Bumblebee develop is very different than what we've seen before. And so I think people are going to love the intimacy of that movie in contrast to some of the big ‘wham bam thank you mam' you know?"

Di Bonaventura has made comparisons to The Iron Giant before, and it seems like the movie will be a prime example for what kind of film moviegoers can expect with Bumblebee.

For those who didn't know, the Bumblebee spinoff will serve as a prequel to the entire Transformers franchise, and will showcase Bumblebee's story on Earth before he was bought by Sam Witwicky. The human lead this time will be played by Hayley Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2), who is said to be a tomboy with an after-school mechanics job.

Personally, I'm hoping this one has Bumblebee taking on his classic VW Beetle form from the cartoons. It was already teased way back in the first Transformers.

Bumblebee is set to come out June 8, 2018.

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