Akiva Goldsman has given the writers a free hand on deciding which direction they want to go in as far as plots and subplots for “Transformers 5” are concerned.
When the concept of “Beast Wars” materializes for “Transformers 5,” it would mean that the machines will now transform into wild animalistic form.
The beast versions of many of the robot characters of “Transformers” can be found on the G1 toyline series – Optimus Prime is Optimus Primal, Bumblebee is Cheetor, Star Scream is Terrasaur, and Blackout is Tarantulus, and so on and so forth. The rest of the robots from both the Autobots and the Decepticons all have their wild animalistic form.
While there have been reports a few months ago that Michael Bay will be returning to direct the fifth movie of the successful franchise, it seems that the director’s return may be at the behest or request of lead actor Mark Wahlberg.
Wahlberg previously said that Michael Bay is definitely going to become part of the film. It is just not clear whether Bay will be returning to the director’s chair or will he just be contented overseeing the works of the writers, or simply take on the role of movie executive producer.