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October 3, 2015 — During his keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference, Allspark's Stephen J. Davis notes that the writing team has come up with film concepts for Transformers 5, 6, 7, and 8.[10]
February 12, 2016 — At Toy Fair 2016, Hasbro reveals the projected release date of Transformers 7, along with the dates for the two preceding films.[1]
September 23, 2017 — At Licensing Europe 2017, Hasbro announces Transformers 7 will have an "entirely new, exciting storyline".[11]
February 16, 2018 — Hasbro clarifies at Toy Fair 2018 that the film will be a reset of the franchise and has been delayed indefinitely until a new creative team is in place.[12]
May 24, 2018 — Paramount drops the film from their release schedule.[13]
March 15, 2019 — di Bonaventura states a sequel to Bumblebee is in development.[14]
March 18, 2019 — di Bonaventura claims that the next main Transformers film will be a reboot closely tied to the Bumblebee sequel, rather than a direct sequel to The Last Knight. Either way, Paramount will pick the best script for Transformers 7 and release that first.[15]
January 27, 2020 — Variety reports two Transformers films are being penned, to be produced simultaneously: one written by James Vanderbilt, another to be written by Joby Harold.[16] Deadline reports that Vanderbilt's script is for a spin-off film based on Beast Wars, while Harold's script continues the story from the Bumblebee film.[17]
May 2, 2020 — Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner confirms that a new Transformers live-action movie is slated to release on June 24, 2022. However, only one between Harold's Bumblebee sequel and Vanderbilt's Beast Wars film will make it to production first.
August 21, 2020 — New Republic Pictures is announced as a new co-financier for Paramount in a ten picture deal in the wake of the success of 2019's Rocketman.[18]
June 13, 2021 — A casting call sheet for filming in Montreal reveals that the film is set in 1992.[22]
June 22, 2021 — A Paramount virtual event is held in which the movie's title, premise, and few of the characters and cast are unveiled (revealing it to be both the Bumblebee and Beast Wars films in one).[23] The film's logo and official premise are also unveiled on official Transformers social media accounts.[24]
October 21, 2021 — Cuscopolita reports on the vehicles with the film's Peru crew, confirming the unidentified vehicles as Wheeljack and Battletrap.[29]
October 22, 2021 — Ramos makes a guest appearance on Hasbro PulseCon 2021, confirming Cheetor, his favorite Beast Wars character, will be in the film.[30]
November 10, 2021 — Paramount announces the film has been delayed to June 9, 2023.[2]
February 15, 2022 — Paramount confirms that Rise of the Beasts will be the first entry in a trilogy of films.[31]
Notes
In a first for the franchise, the lead human actors, writers and director are all people of color.
