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Transformers 5 to set up new spin-offs and movie universe

Transformers... next movie will lead into more spin-offs and 'movie universe' - Credit: Paramount
Transformers… next movie will lead into more spin-offs and ‘movie universe’ – Credit: Paramount

The Transformers are rather more than robots in disguise.

They’re to be the starting point for a whole new range of spin-off movies, making up an Transformers-based movie ‘universe’, starting with ‘Tranformers: The Last Knight’, the fifth movie in the series.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told Screenrant: “I think – I don’t think, I know – some of the things will have a very direct relationship [to new spin-off movies]. You’ll see some things in here that are laying a pipe.

“You won’t necessarily know that it’s laying a pipe for another movie, but it’s there. So there’s probably, in a really meaningful way, two or three things in this movie that really have a meaningful aspect in terms of it, and then there’s a bunch of little things.

“But we’re not making this movie to setup the other movies. That’s what I’m trying to say. If you get too carried away with that, you stop thinking about this movie.

(Credit: Paramount)
(Credit: Paramount)

“And this movie, the two lines of mythology in a sense give you freedom to go a lot of different places later on that may or may not directly relate to another movie, but it’s opening up the universe in a way that I think, in that way it’s probably the most provocative, in terms of the movie.

“It’s opening a really large universe of what Transformers is, and where they’ve come from, and how we relate to them, and how they relate to themselves.”

It’s known that a Bumblebee spin-off is in the post, set to arrive in 2018, and then ‘Transformers 6’ in 2019.

There’s even talk of an R-rated instalment in the series, which has been pitched to Paramount by Michael Bay himself.

In the meantime, however, we’ll have to content ourselves with ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’, starring Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Isabela Moner, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, out on June 23, 2017.

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