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Michael Bay to Blow Up America’s Enemies in ‘Drone Warrior’
Michael Bay to Blow Up America’s Enemies in ‘Drone Warrior’
Michael Bay to Blow Up America’s Enemies in ‘Drone Warrior’
For better and for worse, Michael Bay is America. His work is loud, dumb but mounted on a scale that all but demands respect, all jacked up on patriotism, continuously tolerant of Mark Wahlberg, easily distracted by large shiny objects, and more than anything, enamored of explosions. Bay’s not the greatest living filmmaker, but he may be the most fundamentally American, and he’s about to make that comparison an eensy bit more literal with a new project focused on the nasty business of war. Specifically, that newest and most unsettling form of automated combat, drone warfare.
Behold the Wonders of the International ‘Transformers The Last Knight’ Trailer
Behold the Wonders of the International ‘Transformers The Last Knight’ Trailer
Behold the Wonders of the International ‘Transformers The Last Knight’ Trailer
Seeing an international trailer for a Hollywood-made blockbuster can be an unexpectedly illuminating experience. Taking note of what elements get subtracted or added when appealing to a global audience speaks volumes about what studios and ad executives think will play across the Atlantic and Pacific. For instance, when advertising a mega-budgeted action assault, it’s best to frontload the universal: and in the instance of Transformers: The Last Knight, the cultural-divide spanning material happens to be the “comedy” of an alien robot dinosaur spitting out a chewed-up car covered in viscous green slime.
Bumblebee Goes World War II Mode in ‘Transformers 5’ Poster
Bumblebee Goes World War II Mode in ‘Transformers 5’ Poster
Bumblebee Goes World War II Mode in ‘Transformers 5’ Poster
With Transformers: The Last Knight, Michael Bay has created an alternate universe in which giant robots in disguise have been helping humanity through every historical conflict you can imagine. In a video yesterday, Anthony Hopkins’ voiceover explained that they’ve “been here forever,” but exactly WHY Earth is so important to them remains a mystery. The Last Knight will explore a little of that history, from King Arthur to Japanese samurai, while also making a quick pit stop in the 1940s.
Transformers Have Been Here Forever, Says Anthony Hopkins
Transformers Have Been Here Forever, Says Anthony Hopkins
Transformers Have Been Here Forever, Says Anthony Hopkins
Transformers: The Last Knight is poised to redefine the paradigm of Transformers movies — that is, if anyone’s still following it at this point. The Transformers have been coming to Earth for centuries, even millennia, but what does it MEAN? Sir Anthony Hopkins has some ideas, which hopefully he will finally share in the actual movie, because all of this very mysterious marketing has been just that: very mysterious.
The New ‘Transformers’ Clip Features a Chill Anthony Hopkins
The New ‘Transformers’ Clip Features a Chill Anthony Hopkins
The New ‘Transformers’ Clip Features a Chill Anthony Hopkins
With the recent announcement that Transformers: The Last Knight would be hitting theaters two days earlier  —  moving from Friday, June 23 to Wednesday, June 21  —  fans are closer than ever to seeing their favorite Autobots (and humans) throw down against a reluctantly evil Optimus Prime. This is the summer of heel turns by beloved franchise characters; first we saw Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto betray his family in The Fate of the Furious, and now we’re counting down the days until Optimus Prime stabs Bumblebee in the face. Rough summer for heroes, it would seem.
Tremble Before a New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster
Tremble Before a New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster
Tremble Before a New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Poster
It may ultimately amount to little more than promotional material, but there’s still a sense of artistry to designing a movie poster. Such poster titans as Saul Bellow and Drew Struzan approached their work as no less legitimate than painting, establishing a distinctive, recognizable style and leaving a permanent imprint on the field. Their legacies — of stylization, of spectacle, of conjuring drama and feeling through purely aesthetic means — have trickled down to influence designers today as they contrive clever, original ways to represent a film. And then, also, there’s the poster for Transformers: The Last Knight.
Robots Fight in New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Trailer
Robots Fight in New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Trailer
Robots Fight in New ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Trailer
The sound of metal grinding against metal. The proud yelp of Mark Wahlberg’s serious-actor concerned voice. (“We’re not givin’ up on Prime, okay?!“) The rippling waves of incoherent computer-generated imagery glinting in the post-apocalyptic sun. It can all only mean one thing: there‘s a new trailer for the latest chapter in Michael Bay’s ongoing giant-fighting-alien-robot opera Transformers. Allow me to quickly assuage any concerns by confirming that yes, a whole bunch of crap blows up real big, yes, a huge CGI thing crashes into another CGI thing, and yes, Megan Fox is no longer with us. But let’s dig in anyway, shall we?
New ‘Transformers 5’ Teaser Suggests a ‘Secret History’
New ‘Transformers 5’ Teaser Suggests a ‘Secret History’
New ‘Transformers 5’ Teaser Suggests a ‘Secret History’
The Transformers have always been sneaky little miscreants. Their whole thing is that they’re “robots in disguise,” masquerading as cars or trucks or dinosaurs to better blend in with their surroundings. We know that they’ve been coming to Earth for a while now, and the new Transformers: The Last Knight promises to tell us why. The new tease for a trailer coming on Wednesday shows us that Anthony Hopkins may know the answer.
‘Bumblebee’ Is a Prequel, Will Start Production This Year
‘Bumblebee’ Is a Prequel, Will Start Production This Year
‘Bumblebee’ Is a Prequel, Will Start Production This Year
Who is the best Transformer? Correct, it’s Bumblebee. The trusty little Camaro who communicates half in speech and half with the assistance of sound bites from his radio is getting his own spinoff, and Paramount is looking at a release date sometime in 2018. Michael Bay, who is now in the process of choosing which Transformers story to do next, recently revealed that Bumblebee is going to be a prequel.

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