Bumblebee Director Wants CGI Animated Prequel Set Entirely in Cybertron

With the Bumblebee movie getting so much positive press, we're all excited to see this new interpretation of the Hasbro product without Michael Bay's influence. Sure, the director should be credited for making the franchise more mainstream but Bay also deserves all the criticism for how terrible these movies are. Now that this spinoff has put a more positive spin (hehe) on the Transformers, fans are asking themselves what's next.

If it were up to director Travis Knight, the next installment would be a complete CGI animated prequel that is set entirely on Cybertron. Make it happen Paramount Pictures!

Speaking with Screen Rant during a press junket, Knight revealed that he would love to see a CGI animated film set in Cybertron and even noted that the beginning of Bumblebee is done in CGI. Knight also talked about how much he loved that sequence since that's how the animated series in the '80s started.

"Well, actually it would be wholly animated because the beginning of the movie is completely animated. So, you know, it has live action lighting and textures and everything else, so it has that feeling, but yeah, I would love to see that movie. I gotta tell you... that was one of the biggest thrills for me, in this process, was bringing Cybertron to life and seeing the fall of Cybertron, just a glimpse of it, because that's where the animated series began and we wanted to begin this film in the same manner, to pay tribute to that and it was so much fun. I tried to stuff as much as I possible could into those opening moments, just because that's the movie I've always wanted to see, I would love to see a movie like that, yeah."

Knight wanting a completely animated film for the franchise shouldn't be surprising since a.) the director has worked on animated classics before, like Kubo and the Two Strings, and b.) fans have wanted an animated Transformers film for the longest time. Most of them even enjoy the various animated series' made over the Michael Bay films.

Bumblebee is a step in the right direction and should make fans of the Hasbro toys very happy. Here is hoping that this becomes a reboot rather than a prequel series since no one wants to revisit those earlier films, outside of the first one. The movie is showing on December 21.

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