Paramount will still pursue "Transformers 5" after the fourth installment's box office success. However, despite garnering worldwide success, Optimus Prime's voice actor thinks that the last movie's plot became too alienating for young viewers. Perhaps the inclusion of "The Walking Dead" creator in the writers' pool will help make that happen.
"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is the fourth installment in the franchise helmed by Michael Bay. Despite the lack of presence from the original actors (Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox), the movie became a blockbuster hit worldwide.
Mark Wahlberg led the fifth "Transformers" film into theaters, starring as Cade, a struggling inventor who lives with his daughter in Texas. While in an abandon theater, Cade and his friend Lucas found an old truck and bought it. Turns out, the truck is the injured Optimus Prime, which Cade repaired and accidentally brought to life.
Their rural lives were disturbed since then by Harold Attinger and the elite CIA black ops unit he formed called Cemetery Wind. Attinger is on a mission to hunt down remaining Decepticons and Autobots on Earth and found out about Prime's location: Cade's barn. There commenced a more than 2-hour of action-packed scenes that went all too complicated as the movie nears its end.
Peter Cullen, the voice behind the Autobot's leader, Optimus Prime, did not quite agree with "Age of Extinction"'s plotlines that according to him, became too much to comprehend by the young fans of the franchise. He wishes "Transformers 5" to go back to the roots of its story to cater the children, who are the original target audience of the franchise since it started in cartoons and comics.
To revive the franchise' interesting story, "The Walking Dead" showrunner Robert Kirkman was tapped to join the other writers consist of "Iron Man" writers Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, "Pacific Rim 2"'s Zak Penn and "Amazing Spider-Man 2" and "Lost"'s Jeff Pinkner. The writers are assembled by Akiva Goldsman to make a multi-part sequel and spin offs as per Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura's instruction.
"Transformers 5" may just become the franchise's strongest film version since the release of the 2007 movie. "The Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman joins the series while Optimus Prime's voice talent wishes that the fifth installment will take in consideration their children audience and have a simpler storyline.
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