When trying to start it, Charlie unknowingly activates a homing signal that is detected by Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick as they interrogate and slice down Cliffjumper on one of Saturn's moons. In 1987, teenager Charlene "Charlie" Watson, who was depressed by the death of her father, and resentful of her mother, Sally's, new boyfriend, Ronald, finds a yellow Volkswagen Beetle in a scrapyard belonging to Hank, who gives it to her as an 18th-birthday present. B-127 scans a nearby 1967 yellow Volkswagen Beetle before collapsing from his injuries. When B-127 refuses to reveal Optimus's whereabouts, Blitzwing tears out his voice box and damages his memory core, but B-127 destroys Blitzwing with one of his own missiles. B-127 scans a Willys MB jeep and flees to a mine, where he is ambushed by the Decepticon Blitzwing. Colonel Jack Burns presumes B-127 to be hostile and orders his men to attack. B-127 reaches Earth, crash-landing in California and disrupting a training exercise by Sector 7, a secret government agency monitoring extraterrestrial activity on Earth. Decepticon forces led by Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave intercept the Autobots during the evacuation, and Optimus sends Autobot scout B-127 to Earth in an escape pod to set up a base of operations, before staying behind to fend off the Decepticons. On the planet Cybertron, the Autobot resistance, led by Optimus Prime, is on the verge of losing the war against the Decepticons and prepares to evacuate the planet. A sequel, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is scheduled to be released on June 9, 2023. Unlike the previous films, Bumblebee received positive reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, Steinfeld's performance, the 1980s setting, and sense of nostalgia. Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.īumblebee premiered in Berlin on December 3, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on Decemit grossed $470 million worldwide, becoming the lowest-grossing film in the franchise, but still a box-office success.
It was Knight's first live-action film, as well as the first live-action Transformers film not to be directed by Michael Bay, who instead acted as a producer. Directed by Travis Knight and written by Christina Hodson, the film stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, and Pamela Adlon, and features Dylan O'Brien (as the title character), Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. Developed as a spin-off and prequel, it was later declared a reboot of the franchise. It is the sixth installment of the live-action Transformers film series.
Bumblebee (stylized as BumbleBee, also known as Transformers: Bumblebee) is a 2018 American science fiction action film centered on the Transformers character of the same name.