Christina Hodson, Brian Holdner, Stephen Davis, Lorezo Di Bonaventura, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing Bumblebee.
Travis Knight, who directed the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film Kubo and the Two Strings for the animation studio LAIKA, is directing Bumblebee.
Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to star in Paramount Pictures‘ Transformers spin-off Bumblebee, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Steinfeld will play a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school.
The character will next appear in the upcoming film Transformers: The Last Knight, starring Mark Wahlberg, Jerrod Carmichael, Isabela Moner, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera, Liam Garrigan and Stanley Tucci.