There have been reports last year that Megan Fox is being considered to return to the “Transformers” franchise but the actress reportedly set a condition that she will only do so if actor Shia LaBeouf also agrees to return.
However, it seems unlikely for the producers to take back the problematic actor which means that the return of Megan Fox is almost next to impossible
The rumors about Megan Fox returning for “Transformers 5” also stemmed from reports that franchise director Michael Bay has tapped his protégé Jonathan Liebesman to direct the film as the former has decided to take a backseat and be content with the production of the film.
Liebesman is the director of the 2014 sleeper hit “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” that also featured Megan Fox.
But it seems 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 as an orphan and was raised in foster care.
Joining Cade Yeager
She will be joining actor Mark Wahlberg who shall be reprising his role as hero 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, details News Every Day.
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, cites Movie Pilot.
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 decided to put Moner in place of the previous heroine role of Megan Fox or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s lead female character to rectify previous controversies concerning the franchise’s sexist portrayal of female leads.
Filming to begin in May
Filming for “Transformers 5” is set to begin this May at Detroit that shall feature stand-up comedian Carmichael of “The Carmichael Show.”
According to reports, the storyline of “Transformers 5” will follow Optimus Prime in his effort to find out about the creative forces behind the Quintessons.
The reports that it would be robots taking the center stage in the next “Transformers” movie actually came from a source within the production.
It was actually Akiva Goldsman, former head of the “Transformers” franchise writers’ room, who decided on having the mechanoids take center stage in the next installment since that is what “Transformers” is all about in the first place.
But Goldsman has left the position since after he was tapped by Hasbro to be in charge of the “G.I. Joe” franchise and the “Micronauts” movie.
In a past interview prior to leaving, Goldsman said that the next installment of “Transformers” will have a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches, as well as writers and artists. He added that after the super-saturation, the writers will figure out not just one but numerous films that will extend the film’s universe.
However, since Goldman has already been replaced by writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway of “Iron Man,” it remains to be seen if the plan set forth by their predecessor will stick.
As far as media outlets are concerned, it would really be exciting to see “Transformers 5” centering on the battle of Optimus Prime and his Autobots against Megatron and his Decepticons because it has been the gist of the franchise when it was still an animated cartoon.
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