Couple that with the poor reviews (though admittedly, the Transformers movies have never been critical darlings), and it’s understandable why the producers are interested in making a course correction.
Although the Transformers movies have usually been box office heavyweights, last year’s Transformers: The Last Knight only made $605 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing entry of the franchise.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura described these upcoming changes as an evolution, though noted the difficulty of keeping the elements that fans love without giving them the same kind of product over and over again, which results in boredom.