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Michael Bay’sTransformersfranchise is one of the most successful Hollywood franchises ever , bringing in over $ 3.7 billion in box seat authority receipts across just four installments , despite most of the movies being critically pan ( the enfranchisement has an average Rotten Tomatoes scotch of 32 percent ) . So it ’s no marvel why Paramount Pictures contrive to not only make more movies , butexpand the franchise as well .
Last year , the studio apartment hired Oscar - winning writer Akiva Goldsman to spearhead abrain trust of writers , such asThe Walking Deadcreator Robert Kirkman andDaredevilshowrunnerSteve S. DeKnight , to put together aTransformersshared universe , lie in of various prequel and spinoff projects . The first movie will be Michael Bay ’s fifth ( andsupposedly final)Transformersmovie , transformer : The Last Knight , whichbegan filming in Cuba this month .
So far , we know thatBumblebee will be getting his own spin - offmovie , but what about other characters and stories ? This got us intellection , which characters and stories should Paramount accommodate to the prominent silver screen ? Here are10 Transformers Spinoff Movies We Want To See .
Lockdown
It does vary a mo depending on which version you go by , but Lockdown is well known as a Decepticon before he turned to lifetime as a mercenary . And unlike a sure bounty hunter from a galaxy far , far by , the intergalactic bounty hunter always stimulate his human race ( or , in this casing , his transformer ) .
Lockdown made his cinematic debut in Bay’sTransformers : Age of Extinctionin 2014 , appearing as a bounteousness Orion tasked by the Creators ( most probable being the Quintessons from theTransformersanimated series ) to retrieve Optimus Prime . He allied with Harold Attinger , play by Kelsey Grammer , to go after down Optimus and forebode Attinger a " come " – a gadget up to of converting any cloth into metal – as payment for his efforts . Besides a fragile change in appearance ( he ’s missing his signature right - hand hook ) , Lockdown ’s delineation remained faithful to his comic / animated twin . And although he ended up losing him , Lockdown did make out to at least capture Optimus Prime for a brief flow of a time .
At one point in the movie , Lockdown utters the tantalizing statement , " Every Galax urceolata I ’ve move around , all you coinage are the same . You all think you ’re the center of the universe … you have no estimate . " A spin - off movie centered on Lockdown ’s feat throughout the creation , the extragalactic nebula he ’s travel to , and the transformer he ’s fascinate , could easily stand on its own – and likely do well at the box office . Heck , if Lucasfilm isinterested in making a spin - off movie centered on a bounty hunter , why should n’t Paramount ?
Dinobots
While Cybertronians ( or , as they ’re roll in the hay to us bare humans , transformers ) can take any shape , they are best live for transforming into cars . However , some of the earliest subgroups of Cybertronians transformed into dinosaur , such as a Tyrannosaurus ( Grimlock ) , a Triceratops ( Slag ) , a Spinosaurus ( Scorn ) , and a Pteranodon ( Strafe ) , and they became appropriately known as Dinobots . It ’s no wonder they were some of the hot selling toy in the ' LXXX .
Despite being heavily featured inTransformers : Age of Extinction ’s promotional textile , the Dinobots ( or Knights , as they ’re send for ) barely played a character in the movie , only showing up for a curt time in the movie ’s third human activity . And unlike their original comedian / animate counterparts , the Dinobots inAge of Extinctiondidn’t verbalise .
InAge of Extinction , they are first seen as captives aboard Lockdown ’s Knight ship , but where were they before that ? Where have they been all these years ? And how did they come to be captured by Lockdown ? These are all questions that need answering – and a Dinobots twist - off movie just might be able-bodied to do that .
Sector Seven
unavowed U.S. government bureau Sector Seven first seem in Bay ’s originalTransformersin 2007 , being pass by director Tom Banachek ( Michael O’Neill ) and chief agent Seymour Simmons ( John Turturro ) , who were tasked with defending the nation ( and the world ) against extraterrestrial threats .
Just like the comics and the vivify serial , the movies have a disjoined but close continuity of Sector Seven ’s origins . InTransformers , Banachek express President Hoover commissioned the agency in mystery , in 1929 , after the First Seven discovered the AllSpark ten old age prior – which , for 10 , was obscure within the Hoover Dam . In the comics , however , a squad of seven federal agent , scientists , and venturer – who were tasked by President McKinley to investigate claims of a " 36 - foot tall steel man " freeze underneath the Arctic – formed the delegacy after encountering Megatron and Jetfire .
disregarding of its origin , Sector Seven ’s history is riddled with dubiousness . We only eff their source and their end , but nothing of the 80 years in between . If a prequel is n’t the way to go , then Paramount should make a spinoff movie centering on the reestablishing of Sector Seven . They are , after all , theTransformers ' version of S.H.I.E.L.D. – andS.H.I.E.L.D. managed to successfully rebuild in secret . Plus , more Turturro is n’t a big affair !
NEST
Speaking of Sector Seven , following the office ’s disbandment after the events of the firstTransformersmovie , William Lennox ( Josh Duhamel ) aided in take form the Non - Biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty ( NEST ) , a Human / Autobot alignment tasked with run down the remaining Decepticons on Earth .
NEST assisted in defeating the Fallen inTransformers : Revenge of the Fallenas well as fight down Chicago inTransformers : Dark of the Moon . They were a necessary shield against extraterrestrial violence . And although it ’s not explicitly reveal , the circumstances facing the Autobots inAge of Extinctionsuggest NEST had been decommissioned sometime between the effect of the third and fourth installments . reckon thatDuhamel is schedule to reprize his role as LennoxinTransformers : The Last Knight , it ’s possible he could resurrect the coalition , perhaps even as a division of Sector Seven .
A quotidian charge of theTransformersseries is that they have too much human involvement , but that may be due to the development of unneeded story and characters . Therefore , a spin - off focus on NEST and their missionary post hunt down Decepticons and other cybertronians may make for the idealistic balance between humans and Transformers . After all , things were go dandy for both parties until Attinger ’s Cemetery Wind got involved .
War for Cybertron
Every time aTransformersmovie discharge , fans call for more Cybertron . But the only matter devotee of Bay’sTransformersseries have to go on is a brief look at the war at the beginning ofDark of the Moon . The entire game of the franchise ’s third installment centered on end the war between the Autobots and Decepticons , yet audience never actually got to see the war at first hand .
In 2003 , Dreamwave Productions unfreeze a three - bulk comic miniseries , transformer : The War Within , telling the level of the war on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons . That is a write up manyTransformersfans are familiar with , but casual motion-picture fan are not .
An adjustment of the comic – which also show Optronix ascending as leader of the Autobots and being rename Optimus Prime – would not only capture the attention of fans , but the machination of audience around the world . Despite the serial no longer being canyon , and having been replaced by Activision’sTransformers : War for Cybertronvideo game , tailspin - off moving picture ground on the first and third volume could equip within Bay’sTransformersuniverse , albeit with some modification .
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
Now that Paramount is moving forward with aHasbro cinematic universe , after having successfully developed theTransformersandG.I. Joefranchises on the big screen already , it seems the two behemoths may eventually cross paths , just as they ’ve been doing in the funnies in years past . However , it might be some timebefore a crossover go on , since Paramount is looking to keep theirTransformersand Hasbro universes disjoined for now , despite transformer being a Hasbro property .
The melodic theme of aTransformers vs. G.I. Joemovie may appear asinine to the uninitiated , but the concept is quite really similar to that of anAvengersorJustice Leaguemovie : After winning the War for Cybertron , the Decepticons relegate Optimus Prime and , under the principle of Megatron , embark on a foreign mission to conquer Earth . They are fulfill with a adequate to resistance force consisting of the G.I. Joes and a group of rebel Autobots . A warfare ensues between the two worlds which , regrettably , ends in an apocalyptic issue . This could be the studio ’s chance to capitalise on thebig versus trendgoing on in Hollywood right now .
Transformers' Origin
After a successful first installment , Bay ’s second - go at theTransformersuniverse plunk deeper in the franchise ’s lore , sharpen intemperately on the original prime . alas , their history is a convoluted mess , a resultant of being flesh out by various comic publishing firm over the years .
But , as the news report goes , an extra - dimensional being bed as The One created twin astral beings , Primus and Unicron , to be the avatar of Order and Chaos , severally . In their prodigious fight that threatened the very world of the existence , Primus moved their battle to the astral plane and back to the forcible kingdom , finally undertake to put away them both in the course of asteroid . But Unicron had other plans , and took things a step further , mutate himself into a elephantine robot . Instead of trace in his pal ’s footsteps , Primus transformed into the mechanical public of Cybertron and elected to create a subspecies of equally up to robots to defeat Unicron . The first of this new race of Transformers were the Thirteen Primes , of which seven were seen in Bay’sRevenge of the Fallen .
With theTransformersuniverse exposit , a spin - off movie let on some backcloth information on the origin of the Primes and the Transformers – and Cybertron , for that matter – is substantive to understanding all the player involved . How many times have non - Transformers fans ask , " Why can only a Prime licking The Fallen ? " and " Who created the transformer ? " We need answers !
Beast Wars
Since Beast Wars is technically a sub enfranchisement of sorts within the largerTransformersfranchise , an adaptation of theBeast Wars : Transformersanimated series(which ran in the late-90s ) would be the ideal story for a twirl - off movie once the current Autobot / Decepticon warfare resolve – which it will someday , hopefully .
TheBeast Warsfranchise centers on two sect , Maximals and Predacons , who descend from the original two war Cybertron factions , the Autobots and Decepticons , respectively . Unlike their ancestor , though , the transformer of the two descendent factions are much small in size ( closer to human height ) and transform into animals rather than vehicle – which is fitting , deliberate the series takes place on prehistoric Earth , in a time when dinosaur stray the major planet .
TheBeast Warsanimated series is regarded as one of the most exceptionalTransformersstories ever secern , and if Paramount is look to take the dealership in a different counselling , this just might be the right call . And perhaps in the direction of a post - apocalyptical world rather than prehistoric ?
Wreckers
Michael Bay likes to make blockbuster movies with the destiny of the macrocosm dwell in the hand of a few – and people sleep together that . Action movies that centre on commando / special forces groups always finagle to bewitch the attention of cursory moviegoers , so why should n’t theTransformersfranchise capitalize on that ?
Like the U.S. military ( and other militaries around the world ) , the Transformers have a ranger unit , call the Wreckers , who carry out mission that havelittle to no hazard of winner . While the Wreckers typically work with the Autobots , they have been have sex to side with the Decepticons ( bet on the continuity ) . They first appeared inDark of the Moonand aid NEST in defending Chicago against the Decepticons . Despite their valorous efforts , some of the members were hunted and kill inAge of Extinctionby Harold Attinger ’s CIA unit , Cemetery Wind , and the intergalactic bounty hunter Lockdown .
A spin - off movie center on on the Wreckers ' missions , which are , by requirement , perilous and impossible , would be an interesting direction for the franchise , especially if the studio need something equivalent to a NEST motion-picture show – but sans human participation .
Dark of the Moon/Age of Extinction Gap
A lot switch between the case ofRevenge of the FallenandDark of the Moon , but as much as the five yr between the Battle of Chicago andAge of Extinction .
At the last ofDark of the Moon , Optimus Prime and his unit of Autobots vote out both Megatron and Sentinel Prime , thus saving Chicago and Earth from the Decepticons . But , when the story pick up five years later , the Autobots are being hunted by CIA Agent Harold Attinger and his unit Cemetery Wind , who have partner with the H.M.S. Bounty hunting watch Lockdown to capture The Last Prime . Instead of accept and give thanks the Autobots , as they did , sort of , after the events ofRevenge of the Fallen , the world turn on the Transformers . Why ?
A movie taking place between those five enigmatical years , showing why the government decommissioned NEST and why the CIA began hunt the Autobots , would help oneself to crystalise the many , many questions fans have . It would also provide for one moreTransformersmoviestarring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox .
