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A common complaint about the Transformers movies is that the robots take a backseat. Sam Witwicky, Cade Yeager—these are the main characters of the Transformers movies, not Optimus Prime and Megatron. You might think a spinoff film focusing on one specific Transformer could change that. But don’t hold your breath. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to star in the 2018 Bumblebee Transformers spin-off, from Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight. She’ll play “a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school,” which is both positive and negative. The positive is that she was amazing in True Grit, gave the best performance in The Edge of Seventeen. She’s got a good mix of innocence and confidence that could work well in a big action movie like this. On the other hand, really? Another story about a gritty young kid who becomes friends with a Transformer? Haven’t we already seen this four times already? Let me guess, she and Bumblebee develop a deep friendship and he ends up saving her and maybe the world too? Anyway, as someone who likes Transformers in general, I was hoping the spinoffs would dive a bit deeper into the robots themselves. Doing a movie about Bumblebee, without all the other Autobots, feels like telling a focused, character-driven story about one of the Transformers—not yet another movie about the relationship between the humans and the robots. Knight is the one saving grace here. He’s a director who has no reason to make a movie like this unless he really wants to. As the head of Laika who has a big hand in the amazing films his company makes, the only reason he’d have to devote years of his life to making a Transformers movie is if he connected with the script. And maybe, that will include the robots getting a starring role. The Bumblebee movie is scheduled for release June 8, 2018. |