Bumblebee

Release Date: Friday, December 21, 2018 Nationwide

Christina Hodson, Hailee Steinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, John Cena, Travis Knight, Mark Vahradian, Kenneth Choi, Ricardo Hoyos, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Ortiz, Brian Goldner, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Pamela Adlon, Rachel Crow, Abby Quinn, Stephen Davis, Jason Drucker, Chris Brigham, Stephen Schneider, Gracie Dzienny

PG-13 Adventure N/A

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Plot

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Plot
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.
Cited as official plot version from paramount.com
Adventure Sci-Fi Sequel Spin-off

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Crew Behind the Film

The Bumblebee behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Travis Knight last directed Kubo and the Two Strings and The Six Billion Dollar Man. The film's writer Christina Hodson last wrote The Flash and Unforgettable.

Screenwriter
Producers
Michael Bay
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Stephen Davis
Brian Goldner
Production Company
Hasbro Studios

Additional Information

MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for sequences of sci-fi action violence
Runtime
N/A
Tagline
EVERY ADVENTURE HAS A BEGINNING.
Also known as
Transformers 6

Language
English

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Production Details

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Key Facts

  • This is the first spinoff in what Paramount and Hasbro hopes will be a Transformers Cinematic Universe that will include prequels and offshoots (Hollywood Reporter, 7/13/17).
  • Hailee Steinfeld will play a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school. Sources say the tale is a prequel to the main film series, focused on Bumblebee's life in an earlier decade (Hollywood Reporter, 7/11/17).
  • Laika CEO Travis Knight, who directed Kubo and Two Strings, will be making his live-action directorial debut on the pic (Variety, 5/31/17).
  • Per Variety (10/4/15), Hasbro's Steven J. Davis confirmed in a Q&A that a Transformers 5, 6, 7 and 8 are in the works. “Nine of some of the most creative writers I have ever worked with, shepherded by Akiva Goldsman, who many of you may know won an Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind and written a bunch of great movies,” he went on. “And they plotted out the next 10 years of Transformers. Similarly, we are doing the same in television and in digital. So stay tuned, Transformers 5 is on its way, and 6 and 7 and 8.”
  • As Michael Bay told Entertainment Weekly, "It's kind of like a new Transformers. We had three, the first trilogy, and this is going to be the next one. It's the first of a new trilogy. I'm not necessarily sure that I'm doing [the others], but that's what it's meant for (April, 2014)."

Production Updates

Completed

The film was tagged as Completed.

Post-Production

The film was tagged as Post-Production.

Production

The film was tagged as Production. Filming started late July 2017. The film’s shoot will take place entirely in California, including in Southern and Northern California.

Pre-Production

The film was tagged as Pre-Production.

Development

The film was tagged as Development. Deadline.com says Christina Hodso turned in a script that will make it possible for Paramount to mount the film for 2018.

Development

The film was tagged as Development. Hasbro's Steven J. Davis confirmed in a Q&A that a Transformers 5, 6, 7 and 8 are in the works.

Development

The film was tagged as Development. Director Michael Bay will be rebooting the robot franchise with at least two more movies after Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Release Dates

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Bumblebee was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, December 21, 2018 . There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including Aquaman, Second Act and Welcome to Marwen.



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Mon., Dec. 31, 2018

  • Set the MPAA rating to PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence

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