The Transformers film juggernaut continues with the upcoming Bumblebee trailer. However, this time Director Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) is setting his tail in the 80's, which seems to fit the current trend for nostalgia of that era (Ready Player One, IT, Stranger Things).
Fans have noted that the new film has taken far more care to match the original (G1) aesthetic, in particular the scenes set on Cybertron. Happily the designs seem to fit snugly into the recently announced Siege toy line from Hasbro, which A.I. reported on back in July. The Optimus Prime toy in particular seems to match uncannily with the model seen in the trailer.
Transformers fan-site TFW2005 has created a gallery of HD stills for you to enjoy - check out the pictures of Optimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Ravage and the Seekers on Cybertron!
The Director made a statement about the aesthetic shift at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC):
“We didn’t start on this film with a blank canvas. You know, there are 10 years of a filmic designs that we’ve seen on the screen, but because we set this film 20 years prior to the first Transformers film, it gave us some license, some liberty to play around with the design aesthetic. For me, I wanted to try to evoke the feeling that first wave of Transformers designs made me feel and so that was leaning into the aesthetic, the silhouettes, the shape language, the plating, the color of that first generation of design. There is something that to this day are still so beautiful and I think are hard to top. I think the film is not slavishly following that mold, but it is bringing that aesthetic and weaving it into a more modern point of view so it’s something entirely new, but hopefully it has that feeling of that first wave of Transformers.”
Below is the Thai-subbed trailer, which features more scenes and expanded dialogue.
