That film has achieved a sort of cult status over the years, and apparently, director Travis Knight planned for the new movie to reference that one pretty much from the beginning.
Bumblebee takes the Transformers back to the 1980s when the toys first hit store shelves.
He told CinemaBlend’s Jeff McComb that “The Touch” by Stan Bush was always going to be in the movie.
The film is set in 1987 which is just after the release of the very first Transformers movie, an animated film that was part of the popular kids cartoon series.