It seems also that the franchise’s search for a female lead character is now over as the producers have reportedly taken in Nickelodeon star Isabela Moner. She will be playing the role of Izabella who is described as a street-smart tomboy who grew up in an orphan and was raised in foster care.
She will be joining actor Mark Wahlberg who shall be reprising his role of inventor Cade Yeager. Izabella will be getting along with her life just fine until she got entangled along the way with Yeager, who as everyone knows, is an ally of the Autobots.
Izabella also counts a small Transformer as her only friend before she meets Cade Yeager. Rumors are rife that the Transformer friend of Izabella in “Transformers 5” is going to be Wheelie.
Wheelie is so small and has been popular with fans since his introduction in the second film as one of the friends of Sam Witwicky, the character played in the film series by Shia LaBeouf.
The film series has been criticized for its lack of female lead characters, given that the only three female Transformers appearing in the franchise were killed off in their first movie appearance.
Reports also have it that the producers’ decision to put Moner in place of the previous heroine roles of Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s lead female character is a good break to rectify the movie’s previous controversy concerning the franchise’s sexist portrayal of female leads.