It’s clear that Michael Bay wants to flesh out the backstory of the universe even more with the events in Transformers: The Last Knight and continue the story of Mark Wahlberg’s Cade Yeager as the replacement for LaBeouf.
To say that the Transformers series has evolved in recent years would be nothing short of a total understatement.
Thank about it, if you could take Transformers: Age of Extinction back to 2007 and show it to audiences after the premiere of the original Transformers film, they might not even recognize the franchise.
The shape-shifting robot franchise has started to dive much deeper into the mythology of its titular, mechanical beings — and tie that history in with our own human mythology.