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First Look at the Transformers Bumblebee Spinoff

Mike Tyrkus

So, we finally have our first look at the direction the Transformers franchise will be heading. Taking a cue from Marvel and DC, the battle between Autobots and Decepticons will be continued in a spinoff film in the winter of 2018. Everyone’s favorite little yellow Autobot, Bumblebee, is getting the first title. Although little is known about the movie at this point, Paramount has released the first official image from the film—Bumblebee (see below).

Hailee Steinfeld in BUMBLEBEE, from Paramount Pictures. Photo Credit: Jaimie Trueblood. ©2018 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. HASBRO, TRANSFORMERS, and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro. ©2018 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.

As mentioned earlier, only a sparse amount of information about the plot of the film is known right now, other than that it is set in the eighties and stars Hailee Steinfeld and will be directed by Travis Knight. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town where Charlie (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 currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 21, 2018. So, you have plenty of time to get up to, ahem, speed with the franchise. For news on other releases throughout 2018, check out our 2018 Movie Release Date Schedule.

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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