In an official announcement from Paramount Pictures and Skydance, production has officially kicked off on the new live-action feature “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” – the seventh overall film in the franchise that began with Michael Bay’s 2007 “Transformers”.
The press release says the film “will take audiences on a 1990s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.”
More specifically this one will serve as a continuation of the story of the 1987 set “Bumblebee” and adapt the popular “Beast Wars” storyline of the 1990s. This time the action will unfold in 1994 in the New York borough of Brooklyn and around Macchu Picchu, Peru.
Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback are the only two confirmed cast members. He plays an ex-military electronics whiz who serves as sort of the father figure to his younger brother. Fishback plays a museum artifact researcher who keeps being undercut by her boss.
“Creed II” helmer Steven Caple Jr. serves as director while Bay, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto will produce as per usual along with Mark Vahradian and Duncan Henderson.
di Bonaventura promises this will be bigger in scale than “Bumblebee” with action more on a level akin to the Bay movies – but with more “heart and humor”.
New transformers that will appear this time include Arcee (Ducati 916), Mirage (a Porche 911) and Nightbird (Nissan GTR) along with Air Razor (hawk-like), Optimus Primal (gorilla-like), Rhinox (rhino-like), the Terrorcon leader Scourge, and an ‘off-road’ version of Bumblebee.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is targeting a June 24th 2022 release.
Source: Paramount Pictures
