Even though critics continually tear these movies apart, Michael Bay is coming back with a fifth installment to his Transformers franchise, and he's bringing back a familiar face along with him. Josh Duhamel is set to return as Lieutenant Colonel William Lennox and will join Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager. I don't know how these two are going to meet, but having these two characters share the screen will be pretty cool. And oh yeah, the movie has a title. It's going to be called Transformers: The Last Knight.
Do you remember how Age of Extinction ended? Look, if you are a movie critic and you're reading this, letting me explain to you that yes, these movies do have plots. They may not be great stories, but they do follow a plot none the less. Anyways, at the end of Age of Extinction we saw our Autobot leader Optimus Prime flying off into space in search of the creators. They were kind of touched upon by the bounty hunter robot Lockdown, but little else is known about these creators. Lockdown said that the Autobots and Decepticons were too busy fighting one another to understand the true purpose of their creation. So Optimus Prime flies off to find them. He was also sporting some pretty cool new equipment at the end of the film, too. Along with his updated armor, he carried a sword (the Sword of Judgment, maybe?) that could lead people to think that the movie title could be referring to Optimus himself. Of course, these titles are often misleading, so maybe the last knight refers to the creators, or "creator" if there's only one left? I don't know, this is all speculation.
Besides Duhamel and Wahlberg returning, Tyrese Gibson is letting us know that he's interested in making a return to the franchise as well, but no word on whether this will happen or not. It should, if Col. Lennox is coming back, he ought to have his trusted number two around, right? Maybe this will be a new trend for the franchise, bring back the actors from previous films and mix them in with the new bunch? They could bring back Megan Fox (Yay!) and Shia LaBeouf (Boo!) and get the band back together. I doubt that will happen. Fox is too busy with TMNT's franchise that I don't see her coming back. Plus, she was pretty much just eye candy in the series, and she said she'd done with roles like that, so don't expect her to return any time soon. As far as LaBeouf goes, his exit was probably the best thing for the series. Look, say what you will about the guy, but he is a good actor. It's just that this wasn't a role that fit him very well.
This might be Bay's last go around with the franchise. Directing five of these films is pretty impressive for any director. Paramount has said that it wants to do some spin off movies to the series, maybe focusing on Bumblebee or one that takes place on Cybertron. Regardless of their plans, if the movie makes a lot of money you can expect to see more of these in the future. Just an F.Y.I., the franchise has banked $3.75 billion at the box office so far. Transformers: The Last Knight will make it's debut June 23, 2017.
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