Transformers: The Last Knight (film)

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Transformers: The Last Knight is the fifth film in the live-action film series, and was released on June 21, 2017.[1] The film serves as a sequel to Transformers: Age of Extinction, and is directed by Michael Bay,[2] and is written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Ken Nolan. As with the previous films, it is a Paramount Pictures production.[3]

Synopsis

Quotes

"Go to hell!"
"'This planet is hell!"

—Izabella and Megatron exchange smack talk


"The end is near, my old treacherous friend...what a shame you'll be unable to see it."

-Megatron musing to the decapitated head of Starscream


"Don't kill the messenger... or the messenger will kill you."

-Cogman


"We were brothers once!"
"Once."

—Megatron and Optimus Prime

Characters

Autobots Decepticons Humans Knights of Iacon Others
  • Nitro Zeus' voice actor varies depending on the version of the film, with one having him played by John DiMaggio, and the other with him played by Steven Barr.

Errors

Continuity errors

  • Megatron is treated in this movie as having always been "Megatron", with the whole ordeal of his having been first killed off at the end of the third film and then reborn as Galvatron in the last movie never acknowledged, like it never happened or was all forgotten. He even transforms normally now, as opposed to bursting into a cloud of Transformium and reforming the way all man-made Transformers did in Age of Extinction.
  • How does Daytrader have Starscream's head if it was destroyed in the third film?
  • When the Decepticons invade the junkyard, Sqweeks is seen trying to escape, with both of his original arms intact, despite having been shown with Izabella welding a scavenged Decepticon arm onto him to replace the arm lost earlier in the film. The next time Sqweeks is seen, the Decepticon arm is back, and remains for the entirety of the film.
  • Ironhide is depicted in a historical painting, but he was clearly seen arriving on Earth in the first film.
  • Optimus remarks that he has not heard Bumblebee's voice "since Cybertron fell". Bumblebee actually spoke with his real voice briefly at the end of the first film, albeit it with a different voice actor.
  • How does Hot Rod have the Lamborghini chest in an old war photo if 1. he selected the new disguise merely seconds ago and 2. Lamborghini didn't exist until 1963?

Technical/animation errors

  • Topspin is depicted with Leadfoot's head instead of his own.
  • When Cade, Viviane and Cogman are aboard HMS Alliance, there is a camera shot of Cade looking through the periscope with Cogman to the right of screen. The camera angle then changes and shows Viviane in another part of the chamber. The camera returns to Cade and Cogman has vanished. The camera pans over to Viviane again, then returns to Cade, with Cogman back in the shot.
  • In at least one of the alternate dialogue versions of the film, when Barricade speaks at Stonehenge, his voice sounds much more like one of the Knights rather than his own. This may be why the lines were removed from the finalized version.

Geographic discontinuities

  • When the authorities arrive at Burton's mansion, it is noted that "TRF and MI6" are in pursuit. In real life, MI6 is the UK's external intelligence agency; it is more likely that MI5, the UK's domestic intelligence agency, would be the British central government's agency present.
  • American street signs of the hanging green-coloured variety can be seen during the chase scene in London.

Transformers references

  • Quintessa is a loose adaptation of the Quintessons - the recurring race of antagonistic extraterrestrials who terrorized both the Autobots and Decepticons in season 3 of the original 1980's cartoon. In the cartoon continuity, the Quintessons were the creators of the Transformers, in the same way that Quintessa claims to be in the film. Here, though, Quintessa seems to be physically based off of Quintus Prime, a relatively new character introduced through 2013's The Covenant of Primus; the decision to make the character female is something wholly new, although it may speak to some influence from Solus Prime.
  • Unicron having a connection to the Earth seems inspired by the Transformers: Prime cartoon; in that series, Unicron's alternate mode was the core of the Earth, with the rest of the planet having formed around his dormant body during his hibernation. Whether or not this corporeality holds true for this incarnation of Unicron remains to be seen.
  • When Optimus Prime falls under Quintessa's control, he is dubbed "Nemesis Prime", an obvious reference to the evil clone of Optimus Prime that has appeared in many continuities.
  • Edmund Burton claims Cogman is a "headmaster", which is typically a human-sized bot that transforms into the head of a larger bot. While this reference is borne out by his toy, which features a larger vehicle body and a detachable head, we don't actually see Cogman do anything like that in the movie itself.
  • This is not the first time the Transformers have been associated with Arthurian times.

Other references

  • Crosshairs calls Cogman a "C-3PO ripoff".

Other editions

  • There appears to be at least two versions of the film, with dialogue being altered in certain places. One seems to be the "finished" version screened in English-speaking countries, while the other is an earlier version shown subtitled internationally.
    • In the "pre-final" version, all of Nitro Zeus's dialogue is provided by Steven Barr. For the "finished" version, it was all re-recorded by John DiMaggio, with some differences. During his introduction, for instance, the finished version has him say: "I know where you live, Enrique, say hello to your wife for me!" while the other, he says: "By the way, Enrique, Chad's sleeping with your wife!"
    • When arriving at the Junkyard, Di-Maggio-Nitro remarks "Aw man, I kicked more ass in prison!" upon seeing that Cade and co. have left, while Barr-Nitro remarks "I want to bust some heads!".
    • While Megatron is musing to the head of Starscream, as he says "The end is near", DiMaggio Nitro cuts in with "Oh, she's coming!" while Barr-Nitro remains silent.
    • When the Decepticons arrive in the abandoned down, Barr-Nitro says: "I know they're close!" while DiMaggio-Nitro says: "Oh, I feel a fight comin'!"
    • In the final film, when the Autobots discover the tracker planted on Bumblebee, Crosshairs asks him "When are you gonna grow up?" but in the alternate version, he complains "You led 'em right to us!"
    • When Megatron steals the staff from Optimus, the "finished" film features Nitro Zeus saying: "You blew your chance to kill Unicron!" followed by Megatron saying: "I knew you couldn't do it. Your time is over, Prime! You failed!" The other has no Nitro Zeus dialogue, and instead features Megatron saying: "Quintessa, the most ruthless of our Gods, knew you couldn't do it. She knows I'm strong and you're weak."
    • The alternate version adds an extra line between Cade and Lennox on Cybertron about Optimus never having made it to the Ignition Chamber, while the finished version never acknowledges his absence.
    • When Optimus Prime attacks Quintessa, the "final" version has him retract his faceplate, while in the other, it remains in place. In the same scene, the final version has Quintessa scream as Bumblebee blasts her, while Bumblebee quips "Sting like a bee!"—but in the other version, Quintessa is silent, and Bumblebee's dialogue is very slightly different, with him saying "I sting like a bee."
    • When Hound shows up when TRF are talking to Bee and Cade, in the finished version he says, "Am I late to this ass kicking? I must have left my invitation in the mail." The alternate version has a different line.
    • When Optimus Prime attacks Quintessa, In the finished version she says, "You traitor!", but in the alternate version she says, "Nemesis! You traitor!"
    • When Daytrader says "You always resort to violence" in the finished version Hound says, "I love violence" That scene is skipped in the alternate version.
    • In the finished version, when Crosshairs is talking about Cogman he says," Hey Cade, what's with the C-3PO ripoff?", but in the alternate version he says, "I'll squash this metal cockroach for you Cade."
    • When the Knights of Iacon attack Optimus, in the alternate version one of the Knights tells Prime he was under a spell. In the finished version, that line was removed.
  • The Chinese release adds roughly 2 minutes of content just for soft-advertising.

Adaptations

Music

Score

Home video releases

Theatrical posters

Reception

[sighs] Here we go again.BBC Radio 5 critic Mark Kermode on The Last Knight[4]

After four films where critics hated it but the audience showered it with money, The Last Knight broke the trend by not being showered with money. It had been projected to make $70-75m in its first days in North America, itself the lowest opening[5], but that was downgraded to $63m after the first few days were even lower than the lowest expected.[6] In the end it made almost $70m over the first five days, better than the revised projection but lower than all of the previous films. [7] This meant a lot of critics began to zero in on the sluggish profit, taking the view that American audiences were just getting bored of Bay's version of the franchise.

Internationally, however, the film did $196.2m in the same first five days and a whopping $123.4m of that came from China alone[8](who love the franchise so much delaying The Last Knight reduced 2016 cinema growth to 3%, down from 48% in 2015!)[9] The Chinese were expected to spend up to $290m on the film's run. [10]

Production staff

Development details

Transfivemers doesn't have the same ring to it.
  • December 18, 2014 — Mark Wahlberg confirms to MTV that he is signed on for the next two Transformers films.[11]
  • March 27, 2015 — Paramount Pictures negotiates with Akiva Goldsman, hiring him to create a "writer's room" with the intention of building a cinematic universe.[12] Goldsman goes on to hire a number of writers over the next few months: Steven DeKnight (Daredevil),[13] Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead),[14] Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man),[14] Christina Hodson (Shut In, The Fugitive),[15] Lindsey Beer (Dig),[15] Zak Penn (Pacific Rim 2),[14] Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Lost),[14] Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man),[16] Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down), and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.[17] Involved in the pitching process are Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Brian Goldner, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, and Don Murphy.[18]
  • May 27, 2015 — As part of the news surrounding Barrer and Ferrari joining the room, it's revealed that another pitch is an animated prequel movie set on Cybertron, with the working title of Transformers One.[16]
  • June 8, 2015 — The writers meet on the Paramount lot for the writer's room.[17] The writers work for the next three months to plot out the next ten years of Transformers films.[19]
  • July 28, 2015 — DeKnight reports that as a result of the gathering of writers, Goldsman and Pinkner will be co-writing Transformers 5.[20]
  • September 17, 2015 — Deadline reveals more about the writer's room process and reports that Barrer and Ferrari will write the animated feature, with Pinkner and Beer writing later films.[18] Bay remains uncommitted to directing.[21]
  • October 3, 2015 — Hasbro Studios's Stephen J. Davis relates more details of the writing process in a keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference.[19]
  • November 20, 2015 — With Goldsman now enlisted to create a writer's room for G.I. Joe and Micronauts, Paramount begins negotiating with Marcum, Holloway and Nolan to write the film.[22]
  • December 14, 2015 — Wahlberg re-confirms in an interview with CinePop that he'll be back in Transformers 5.[23]
  • January 4, 2016 — Bay confirms he will be returning to direct.[2]
  • January 12, 2016 — It's totally definitely the last Transformers film for him this time though.[24]
  • February 12, 2016 — Transformers 5 is now being released on June 23, 2017. In addition, Transformers 6, acting as a Bumblebee spin-off, and Transformers 7 are set to be released respectively on June 8, 2018 and June 28, 2019.[25][26]
  • February 18, 2016 — Casting calls go out for June filming in London and Detroit, also confirming Peter Cullen's return as Optimus Prime.[27]
  • February 26, 2016 — After negotiations, it's announced that Michigan will provide $21 million in incentives towards the film.[28]
5 movies in and Michael Bay is still finding ways to make my face even more ridiculously detailed. Pretty soon I'm going to look like Deceptigod.
  • April 6, 2016 — Cinematographer Jonathan Sela is reported as being booked to work on the film.[29]
  • April 13, 2016 — Filming dates are revealed via a casting call on acting-auditions.org.[30]
  • May 12, 2016 — Isabela Moner tweets that she's been cast in the movie.[31]
  • May 14, 2016 — Bay suggests Tyrese Gibson is under consideration to return.[32]
  • May 16, 2016 — The film's title is officially revealed to be Transformers: The Last Knight in teaser trailer posted on a newly-launched Transformers Movie Instagram.
  • May 17, 2016 — Josh Duhamel announced to be returning for Transformers: The Last Knight.[33]
  • May 25, 2016 — Michael Bay posts a photo as production begins in Cuba.
  • May 27, 2016 — A teaser is posted containing morse code which translates to "I'm coming for you May 31st."
  • May 31, 2016 — Michael Bay posts video of Megatron and announces production is about to start.
  • June 3, 2016 — Anthony Hopkins joins the cast.[34]
  • June 4, 2016 — First look at Bumblebee's vehicle mode, which is a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro.[35]
  • June 4, 2016 — The World's Loneliest Dog is cast.[36]
  • June 10, 2016 — Barricade is confirmed to return as a 2016 Ford Mustang.[37]
  • June 18, 2016 — Mitch Pileggi reveals he has a role.[38]
Back to the basics.
  • June 20, 2016 — Laura Haddock joins the cast.[39]
  • June 22, 2016 — New robot character Sqweeks is revealed.[40]
  • June 28, 2016 — Tyrese Gibson is confirmed to return.[41]
  • June 30, 2016 — Santiago Cabrera joins the cast.[42]
  • July 1, 2016 — Drift is confirmed to return with a new Mercedes alt-mode.[43]
  • July 27, 2016 — Onslaught is confirmed to appear in the film.[44]
  • August 4–13, 2016 — A series of character profiles are released on the official movie Facebook. New character Hot Rod[45] is first to be revealed, and Crosshairs[46] and Hound[47] are confirmed to return. Also shown are profiles for Drift,[48] Sqweeks,[49] Barricade,[50] Megatron,[51] and Bumblebee.[52]
  • August 9, 2016 — Members of a number of Transformers fan sites, including TFWiki, are treated to a set visit.
  • September 4, 2016 — Stanley Tucci is back as Joshua Joyce.[53]
True fact: Isabela had to beat Megatron in an arm wrestling contest to get this part.

Notes

  • Tyrese Gibson was intended to return as Robert Epps, but the logistics of filming in Europe resulted in him being unable to take part.[57]


Foreign names

  • Italian: Transformers - L'ultimo cavaliere ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
  • Japanese: Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō (トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王, "Transformers: The Last Knight King")
  • Korean: Teulaenseupomeo: Choehuui Gisa (트랜스포머: 최후의 기사, "Transformers: The Last Knight")
  • Mandarin: Biànxíng Jīngāng 5: Zuìhòu de Qíshì (Taiwan, 變形金剛5：最後的騎士, "Transformers 5: The Last Knight"), Biànxíng Jīngāng 5: Zuìhòu de Qíshì (China, 变形金刚5：最后的骑士, "Transformers 5: The Last Knight")
  • Portuguese: Transformers: O Último Cavaleiro (Brazil, "Transformers: The Last Knight"), Transformers 5 (Portugal)
  • Russian: Transformery: Posledniy rytsar' (Трансформеры: Последний рыцарь, "Transformers: The Last Knight")
  • Spanish: Transformers: El último caballero ("Transformers: The Last Knight")
  • Ukrainian: Трансформери - Останній лицар ("Transformers: The Last Knight")

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Transformers: The Last Knight' Moves Forward Two Days
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 '13 Hours': Can Michael Bay Pull Off a Gritty Movie About Benghazi? on Rolling Stone
  3. ↑ Meghan McCarthy Joins Hasbro as Head of Storytelling
  4. ↑ [Mark Kermode review
  5. ↑ Deadline, June 15th 20917: "‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Hoping To Catch Opening In The $100M Vicinit"
  6. ↑ "Deadline: ‘Transformers’ Still Rusty At $63M+"
  7. ↑ Deadline: "Why ‘Transformers’ Is Screaming For Reboot After $69M Start; ‘Wonder Woman’ & ‘Cars 3’ Fight Over 2nd Place", 25th June 2017
  8. ↑ Deadline: "Why ‘Transformers’ Is Screaming For Reboot After $69M Start; ‘Wonder Woman’ & ‘Cars 3’ Fight Over 2nd Place", 25th June 2017
  9. ↑ Forbes: "'Transformers' Gears Up For Another $1 Billion Box Office Bounty"
  10. ↑ Variety:"China’s Weying Boards Paramount’s ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’"
  11. ↑ Mark Wahlberg Just Found A 'Transformers' Sequel on MTV.com
  12. ↑ Paramount Enlisting Akiva Goldsman To Ramp Up 'Transformers' Output on deadline.com
  13. ↑ Transformers cinematic details
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 'Transformers' Spinoff & Sequel Scribes Set on Deadline.com
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer Join the Transformers Writing Team
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 'Ant-Man' Scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Join 'Transformers' Writers Room on Deadline
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Akiva Goldsman Teases 'Transformers' Franchise Plans
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 'Transformers' Writers Room Wraps on Deadline
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Stephen Davis's keynote speech at MIPJunior.
  20. ↑ Daredevil's Steven DeKnight on the Transformers Writers Room and Planning Ahead on IGN
  21. ↑ Tweet by Michael Bay
  22. ↑ Akiva Goldsman 'Transformers' Writers Room Leads Paramount & Hasbro To Set One For 'G.I. Joe', 'Micronauts' on Deadline
  23. ↑ Mark Wahlberg interview with CinePop
  24. ↑ Michael Bay interview with Collider
  25. ↑ Transformers 5, Transformers 6 And Bumblebee Spin-Off Movie Revealed ToyFair news at TFW2005
  26. ↑ Transformers 6 Tentative Title Revealed – The Bumblebee Movie at TFW2005
  27. ↑ Transformers 5 casting call for new lead roles on acting-auditions.org
  28. ↑ 'Transformers 5' lands in Detroit from the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office
  29. ↑ Agencies Book Artisans on 'Fast 8,' 'Transformers 5,' 'To the Bone,' 'MacGyver' and 'Altered Carbon' on Variety
  30. ↑ 'Transformers 5' Casting Calls and Auditions Information on acting-auditions.org
  31. ↑ Tweet by Isabela Moner
  32. ↑ [1]
  33. ↑ [2]
  34. ↑ [3]
  35. ↑ Bumblebee vehicle mode reveal
  36. ↑ MichaelBay.com - Freya
  37. ↑ [4]
  38. ↑ Tweet from Mitch Pileggi
  39. ↑ Tweet from Laura Haddock
  40. ↑ Michael Bay on Instagram
  41. ↑ Tyrese on Instagram
  42. ↑ Official movie Instagram reveal of Santiago Cabrera
  43. ↑ Drift - MichaelBay.com
  44. ↑ Onslaught photo on the official Transformers movie Facebook page.
  45. ↑ Hot Rod Facebook reveal
  46. ↑ Crosshairs Facebook reveal
  47. ↑ Hound Facebook reveal
  48. ↑ Drift Facebook reveal
  49. ↑ Sqweeks Facebook reveal
  50. ↑ Barricade Facebook reveal
  51. ↑ Megatron Facebook reveal
  52. ↑ Facebook reveal
  53. ↑ Stanley Tucci to Reprise 'Transformers' Role in 'The Last Knight' on Variety
  54. ↑ Transformers' Blenheim Palace 'Nazi' scenes defended from the BBC
  55. ↑ Michael Bay video on Facebook
  56. ↑ Exclusive, Explosive New Look At Bumblebee In Transformers: The Last Knight on Empire Online
  57. ↑ Tyrese Gibson exclusively admits he was 'p****d' to miss out on filming Transformers: The Last Knight alongside original co-star Josh Josh Duhamel on OK! Online



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