While it certainly doesn't have anywhere near the cultural cachet of Marvel or Star Wars, the live-action Transformers franchise has been plugging along for more than 15 years, printing money for Paramount. This year, we're getting the seventh such movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
It's not the first time this series has delved into Beast Wars territory--Transformers: Age of Extinction featured a subplot involving Dinobots--but this will be the first proper dedicated live-action Beast Wars movie. So I hope you're ready to see some very large robot animals beating the crap out of each other, because that's what you're gonna get from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts releases in theaters on June 9, 2023.
Oh yeah, right here. Oh, and here's a Super Bowl spot for good measure. They're light on plot, but we get some great looks at that robot eye candy. And Optimus Primal (that robot gorilla) offers a tantalizing warning that may just indicate that this movie will end up being much weirder than it appears: «Of all the threats from both your past and future, you've never faced anything like this.» Is he hinting at time travel? Maybe.
In the Beast Wars CGI animated TV series, the Beast Transformers were «upgrades» from the standard Autobots and Decepticons and lived hundreds of years after them, but here, all the different Transformer types are around at the same time. If they keep that origin, then time travel will likely be in play--hardly out of the question when you consider that line from the trailer mentioned above and a comment from the director that referred to the Beasts as «prehistoric animals that travel through time and space.» And, hey, it's Transformers. Anything and
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