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Release Date:
Friday, December 21, 2018 Nationwide
sequences of sci-fi action violence
Plot: What's the story about?
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.
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Who stars in Bumblebee: Cast List
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Ender's Game
House Party, Alita: Battle Angel
Knock at the Cabin, Radium Girls
Rio 2
Argylle, Ricky Stanicky
The King of Staten Island, Tinker Bell
The Wolf of Wall Street, Spider-Man: Homecoming
Poolman, The Fallout
Who's making Bumblebee: Crew List
A look at 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.
Director
Screenwriter
Producers
Michael BayLorenzo di Bonaventura
Stephen Davis
Brian Goldner
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Production: What we know about Bumblebee?
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)."
Filming Timeline
- 2018 - November: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2017 - December: The film was set to Post-Production status.
- 2017 - August: The film was set to Production status.
Filming started late July 2017. The film’s shoot will take place entirely in California, including in Southern and Northern California.
- 2017 - June: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
- 2016 - November: The film was set to Development status.
Deadline.com says Christina Hodso turned in a script that will make it possible for Paramount to mount the film for 2018.
- 2015 - October: The film was set to Development status.
Hasbro's Steven J. Davis confirmed in a Q&A that a Transformers 5, 6, 7 and 8 are in the works.
- 2014 - April: The film was set to Development status.
Director Michael Bay will be rebooting the robot franchise with at least two more movies after Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Bumblebee Release Date: When was the film released?
Bumblebee was a Nationwide release in 2018 on Friday, December 21, 2018. There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including Aquaman, Welcome to Marwen and Second Act.
Bumblebee DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Bumblebee was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 .
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Also known as
- Transformers 6
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