Live-action film series
- See also: Movie timeline
The live-action film series is an umbrella term that refers to series of theatrical feature films directed by Michael Bay beginning in 2007, including the vast amount of ancillary fiction created for it.
At this time<sup>(Jan-14-09)</sup> a second film in the series, titled Revenge of the Fallen, is slated for release on June 24, 2009. A third film is tentatively planned <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> but its production is presumably contingent on the performance of the second film and availability of the principals involved.
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<td> Transformers<br />(2007)
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</td><td> Revenge of the Fallen<br />(2009)
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</td><td>"Transformers 3"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup><br />(planned)
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Continuities
The live-action film series is a continuity family, and as such includes all continuities concerning closely related characters and settings.
- The mainline continuity consists of the films and in-continuity comics.
- A second continuity was established in Titan Magazine's Transformers Comic issue 9 and continues to issue 26. This continuity follows events after Megatron won the battle of Mission City.
- Mirco-continuities also exist in the form of video games, some toy bios, and certain comic story threads that are incompatible with each other.
Footnotes
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <tt>‹That will be my Lord of the Rings and then I’ll just make indies the rest of my time, for a long time.›</tt>, Actor Shia LaBeouf confirms he signed for two sequels. — “Exclusive Interview with Shia LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty: On "Bobby" and "Transformers"”, Rebecca Murray <small>p4 </small> (November 10, 2006.) <u>About.com</u>. <small>Retrieved on February 17, 2009. <a href="http://movies.about.com/od/bobby/a/bobbysl111006_4.htm" class="external free" title="http://movies.about.com/od/bobby/a/bobbysl111006_4.htm" rel="nofollow">http://movies.about.com/od/bobby/a/bobbysl111006_4.htm</a></small> <li id="cite_note-1">[#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> There are not firm plans for Transformers 3 beyond, ironically, that it will not be called "Transformers 3;" Writer Robert Orci says that the films will not be numbered. <a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/07/24/writers-reveal-theme-of-transformers-sequel-the-bad-news-no-dinobots/ MTV MovieBlog], July 24, 2008</ol>
