Transformers: Bumblebee Spinoff Movie Director Search Underway

Transformers: The Last Knight

Michael Bay back - tracked on the call that he was done directingTransformersmovies upon completion of his initialTransformersfilm trilogy ; then he did it again , by returning to helm next year’sTransformers : The Last Knight , after indicating that he was call it a day on the robots - in - disguise movie enfranchisement upon supervise the quaternary instalment , in 2014’sTransformers : Age of Extinction . ATransformersfilm directed by someone other than Bay will happen at last in 2018 , with the release of for - now untitled spinoff that tellsthe"never hear story"of Bumblebee , everyone ’s favorite contraband - and - yellow Autobot .

Paramount confirmed earlier this year that the Bumblebee movie is the first of several plannedTransformersspinoffs , to be released in - between the primary hot - action instalment ( thusforming theTransformersCinematic Universe , so to speak ) . The moving-picture show is being script by one Christina Hodson , a member of theTransformerswriting radical that was put together by Paramount in 2015 and task with plot out the futurity of the largerTransformersfranchise , for the next decade or so .

Deadlineis reporting that Hodson has make out a script draft for the Bumblee spinoff that Paramount is"sweet on"and that the studio apartment is now on the hunt for a conductor to oversee the projection . The Bumblebee spinoff is schedule to reach theaters in June 2018 , so principal photography will be acquire afoot in the first one-half of 2017 ; presumptively , earlier than later . That means that we could be dumbfound an update on who ’s address within the next few months ( potentially even by the end of the year ) .

Hodson is a film writer who is going places very quickly in Hollywood . Although the only produced movie that she has spell to date is the lately - released dramatic thrillerShut In , Hodson has already been enter to writethe Harley Quinn / Birds of Prey movieset in the DC Extended Universe -and , write a script conscription for the reboot ofThe Fugitive , in improver to writing the Bumblebee flick . Clearly , Hodson ’s work behind the scenes has been impressing studio heads thus far , so that bodes well for the upcoming franchise movies written by her , too .