Kennedy to approve a manned lunar mission. The film opens with The Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft, crash-landing on the far side of the moon in 1961, which prompts John F. Paramount Pictures Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011): One giant leap for robot-kind, 1969 A.D. So, in addition to Megatron crashing in the Arctic by accident, the Transformers were around in secret since before the dawn of human civilization. Later, we learn that Transformers known as “the Seekers” remained on Earth, in hiding, for several thousand years. Over the course of the film, it’s revealed that The Fallen, an ancient Transformer, tried to kill a bunch of early humans, only to be imprisoned by The Primes. The film opens with what is essentially Bay’s version of the “Dawn of Man” sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, showcasing the arrival of the Transformers on Earth around 19,000 years ago. Revenge of the Fallen (or Transformers: The One Where Shia LaBeouf Goes to Robot Heaven) is where the alternate history gets kooky. Paramount Pictures Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): First ancient contact, 17,000 B.C.E. government - though one assumes Cybertron has been an active, non-stop warzone for several millennia if that’s the case, since its civil war is still ongoing during the events of Bumblebee. Archibald’s glasses, inscribed with the All Spark’s coordinates, were eventually handed down to his great-great-grandson Sam (Shia LaBeouf), the series’ first protagonist.Īll this could still very well have happened in the series’ new timeline - Megatron was originally found and kept secret by the U.S. What exactly have these changes washed away from the original movies? Chances are, it’s weirder than you remember: Paramount Pictures Transformers (2007): Megatron on ice, 1895 A.D.Īccording to the first movie, the villain Megatron, in pursuit of the AllSpark amidst Cybertron’s civil war, crash-landed in the Arctic several thousand years ago, before being discovered by explorer Archibald Witwicky in the late 19th century. In this version, Bumblebee is the first Autobot to arrive to our planet, while two pursuing Decepticons not only make first contact with mankind, but team up with the government to capture the rogue soldier (which. While Bumblebee finally makes the action coherent, and grounds the story in a real and relatable human perspective, the new setting erases the increasingly ridiculous alternate history of Earth devised over the course of Bay’s five blockbusters. The choice rewrites much of the series’ mythology - but at what cost?
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Set 20 years before the series’ first entry, the movie also imagines the arrival of the Autobots on Earth in 1987, as opposed to 2007, the year the first film takes place.
Travis Knight’s Bumblebee, a soft reboot of Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, dares to imagine a world where you can tell the Autobots and Decepticons apart.