Additionally, Knight will be the first director aside from Bay to helm a film in the Transformers universe.
Paramount Pictures kicked off their Transformers film series in 2007 with Michael Bay’s first directorial effort in the franchise – and he would go on the helm each of the subsequent followups, including the forthcoming fifth installment, Transformers: The Last Knight.
Knight only has one directorial credit to his name, the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film Kubo and the Two Strings, making Bumblebee his live-action debut.
However, while each Transformers film has done well at the box office, critical and moviegoer reactions have continually declined.