Live-action film series

Live-action film series:
Transformers (2007)		Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)		Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)		Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)		Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)		"Transformers 6" (2018)		"Transformers 7" (2019)

The live-action film series is an umbrella term that refers to the series of highly-successful theatrical feature films put out by Paramount Pictures beginning in 2007, along with the vast amount of toys, merchandise, and ancillary fiction created for it. The first four films in the series were directed by Michael Bay, and began with Transformers. The first of the sequels, titled Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, was released on June 24, 2009. The third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was released on June 28, 2011. Though Bay claimed he would not be back for the fourth film, he was successfully lured back to the director's chair and Transformers: Age of Extinction was released on June 27, 2014. A fifth film directed by Bay, Transformers: The Last Knight, is set to be released on June 21, 2017. Transformers 6 and Transformers 7 are set to be released on June 8, 2018, and June 28, 2019, respectively.

In 2015, the studio hired Akiva Goldsman to oversee writing a series of spin-offs with Bay and producers Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Goldsman has gathered together writers Robert Kirkman, Zak Penn, Jeff Pinkner, Steven DeKnight, Ken Nolan, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Christina Hodson, and Lindsey Beer. Of the nine proposed spin-offs, Spielberg saw potential in five of them: Barrer and Ferrari have begun writing an animated prequel set on Cybertron. Kirkman departed after one day because of health problems.

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  Transformers
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  Revenge of the Fallen
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  Dark of the Moon
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  Age of Extinction
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  The Last Knight

Continuities

See also: Movie continuity

The live-action film series is a continuity family, and as such includes all continuities concerning closely related characters and settings. TFWiki has identified three primary timelines for the series:

• The main movie timeline consisting of the films, novels, comic books and various other elements that don't contradict each other.
• The Titan Magazines movie timeline, which began tying into the larger film-based continuity by IDW but eventually gave up. This continuity also follows events in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.
• The Sector Seven ARG timeline where the film series is a fictionalization of real events.
• Micro-continuities also exist in the form of video games, some toy bios, and certain comic story threads that are incompatible with each other.

The Transcendent Technomorphs refer to this continuity family as the Tyran universal streams.

Notes

• The live-action film series has thus far consistently used the code name "E7" for direction signs on all the movies' sets, as well as in various internal documents and files. More specifically, Revenge of the Fallen was code-named "E7²", Dark of the Moon was "E73", Age of Extinction was "E74", and The Last Knight was "E75". Why this ruse is being held up is anyone's guess; it's not like anybody should be fooled by this anymore in the internet age!