What Happened To Sam Witwicky In The Transformers Films?
What happened to Transformers' Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), and is he likely to return in a future entry? Michael Bay was drawn to the original Transformers on the simple, relatable hook of the movie being about a boy and his first car; the fact the car was a transforming alien robot was simply a bonus. Shia LaBeouf was later cast as Sam Witwicky, the somewhat nerdy kid who gets unwittingly drawn into an intergalactic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. However, after the first three Transformers movies, viewers noticed that the former protagonist had left without a trace. This led audiences to ask: what happened to Sam Witwicky?
Sam Witwicky was the lead character of the first three Transformers movies, exiting after Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. After Transformers 3, Shia LaBeouf never returned to the franchise and the series received a soft reboot with 2014's Transformers: Age Of Extinction. Mark Wahlberg was introduced as the awesomely named Cade Yaeger, a struggling inventor who — like Sam — is unwittingly drawn into the Autobot struggle. Cade later returned for Transformers: The Last Knight, but both Bay and Wahlberg decided to call time on their involvement with the franchise after that entry. The 2018 movie Bumblebee then served as another soft reboot featuring none of the previous human characters.
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Shia LaBeouf, Mark Wahlberg, and Michael Bay all left the Transformers franchise, but they were not the first to do so. Shia LaBeouf's co-star for the first two movies, Megan Fox, left Transformers before the third film.What happened to Sam Witwicky is at least touched upon in Transformers 5, but it's doubtful that Bay and company thought LaBeouf
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