Director Travis Knight served up a genuine Christmas miracle this past week, delivering a Transformers movie that managed to please both fans and critics alike with the 80s set spinoff Bumblebee.
The movie serves as a prequel to Michael Bay’s series and given that there’s around a twenty year gap between movies, it would appear that there’s plenty of scope for a sequel to help fill in some of the gaps. And, as Knight has revealed to CinemaBlend, he’s already got ideas of where the story could go should Paramount give a second movie the go ahead.
“I mean, when I get to the end of one of my movies, I always imagine what’s next for the characters,” said Knight. “And so, in my mind, I’ve got all these scenarios and adventures that play out, both with Charlie and with Bee and everyone else. We’ll see if the world wants more. Maybe we’ll explore some of those things.”
Despite earning rave reviews, Bumblebee hasn’t exactly set the box office alight so far, earning just $53 million worldwide going into Christmas Day, so it remains to be seen whether Paramount would be keen on a second film. We do know however that the studio is planning a sixth movie in the main Transformers franchise, and given that Knight has breathed new life into the series, he’d surely be a solid choice to replace Michael Bay in the director’s chair for Transformers 6.
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On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Bumblebee is directed by Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings), and stars Hailee Steinfeld (Edge of Seventeen), Pamela Adlon (Better Things), John Cena (Daddy’s Home 2), Stephen Schneider (Broad City), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Jason Drucker (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul), Kenneth Choi (American Crime Story), Ricardo Hoyos (Degrassi: Next Class), Abby Quinn (Landline), Rachel Crow (Deidra & Laney Rob a Train), Grace Dzienny (Zoo) and John Ortiz (Kong: Skull Island).
