Michael Bay and his Transformers franchise never goes small when it can go as huge as possible, and then blow that up to replace it with something bigger. But while the latest outing, The Last Knight, didn't deliver a full new trailer, it does have an extended TV spot to offer. Take a look...
None of the Arthurian overtones are featured here, as it mostly seems to be about the rising tensions between humans and Transformers and Optimus Prime off in space on his own quest for some sort of redemption. Or is it new power? Because that looks suspiciously like Bumblebee and his boss getting into it later in the trailer.
The returning human likes of Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and Stanley Tucci with Isabela Moner, Laura Haddock, Liam Carrigan and Anthony Hopkins as the new recruits. Expect the usual robo-chaos with Bay, who is saying once again that he's handing the reins off after this one, looking to finish his time at the Transformers helm with a bang.
"I’ve been living in this franchise for over 10 years now. For Transformers: The Last Knight, we put together a writers’ room designed to greatly expand our mythology, integrating our films in a whole new way. Every movie will interlink," he writes of the movie and the franchise's future.
"Through the summer of 2015, they worked in a huge space on the Paramount lot, surrounded by over 10,000 concept images from the franchise’s history: the movies, cartoons, and comic books. They had a life-size Bumblebee, a Megatron head, and many other props staring them down. We pulled from everything. It was a fan’s dream room. We brought in Transformers historians from Hasbro to educate them on where Transformers has been – so that they could figure out where it can go.
"I can safely say that there’s never been a Transformers film with the huge visual scope and expansive mythology as this movie, The Last Knight. It’s bittersweet for me. With every Transformers film, I’ve said it would be my last. I see the 120 million fans around the world who see these movies, the huge theme park lines to the ride and the amazing Make- A-Wish kids who visit my sets, and it somehow keeps drawing me back. I love doing these movies. This film was especially fun to shoot. But, this time might really be it. So I’m blowing this one out."
So now you know. The Last Knight lands on 23 June.