8 Ways Upcoming Movies Can Fix Franchise Mistakes
2. Bumblebee Will Be Different
The Mistake: Every single movie feels the same; overlong, confusing and cliché-driven.
How The Movie Will Fix It: After five movies, Michael Bay's Transformers series has finally begun to slow down at the box-office.
This year's The Last Knight failed to crack $1 billion worldwide (a feat that's become common for the franchise), a sign that mainstream audiences have become just as tired with Bay's unintelligible direction as the rest of us have been for years.
The Transformers movies can be fun in places, but they can also be mind-numbingly dull and ridiculously stupid, and sadly, they've skewed more towards the latter since day one.
Luckily, the team behind the series is aware that they need to mix things up. Speaking to Den Of Geek, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura had this to say about Bumblebee, the upcoming Transformers spinoff:
“We had decided to do this well before (The Last Knight) had come out. Our feeling was that we wanted to give the audience a different experience. Bumblebee's designed to be a more intimate movie. There's many fewer Transformers in it. It's set in 1987, so it actually predates all of Michael's movies and therefore is not burdened by the history of those... you have a certain amount of creative freedom.”
"Intimate" isn't usually a word one hears in the same paragraph as "Transformers", but if this is a sign that Bumblebee will be more character-driven and thoughtful than Bay's collection of flicks, then it's already on the right track.