Set in 1987, Bumblebee will follow Charlie Watson, a girl who’s on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world.
As Transformers: The Last Knight revealed, both Autobots and Decepticons have been living on Earth for much longer than previously implied, with Bumblebee shown to have served in World War II.
This spinoff will elaborate on Bumblebee’s whereabouts before the Transformers series’ main events, so even if Optimus Prime won’t be a major player, it will be interesting to find out a little bit of his “secret” history, long before he and his Autobot buddies saved the world many times over from Megatron and his ilk.
One day Charlie finds a beaten-down Volkswagen Beetle in a junkyard, and after getting it up and running she discovers that there’s more than meets the eye with this car.