Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. has announced that production on his Bumblebee sequel has now officially wrapped.
Caple celebrated the end of production on the seventh live-action Transformers film by posting a new photo on Instagram that shows him sitting in the driver's seat of the movie's G1-inspired Optimus Prime truck. "That's a wrap," he captioned the photo, which has arrived just a few weeks after he revealed the first look at the film's Autobots and Terrorcons.
The Autobots were showcased in the first image of Caple's previous Instagram post (below), with Optimus Prime pictured front and center alongside Bumblebee, dressed in the signature yellow and black, as well as the vehicular forms of Mirage, Arcee, and Wheeljack. Whereas, the second photo spotlighted the Terrorcons led by Scourge.
Scourge will roll out as the main villain of Rise of the Beasts when the film hits theaters on June 24, 2022. The foreboding Kenworth JF Logging Truck will take symbols from his victims and fuse them onto his militiristic body as trophies. Also pictured is Nightbird, Scourge's dangerous ninja "right hand," and an unidentified GM C4500 Topkick tow-truck.
Up until now, the live-action Transformers series has focused exclusively on Autobots and Decepticons, but the new movie will add Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the mix for a story that promises to send audiences on a globetrotting adventure across Brooklyn, New York, and Peru in the year 1994, seven years after 2018's Bumblebee.
Rise of the Beasts will introduce the Beast Wars to the Transformers film franchise, with Ron Perlman playing Optimus Primal. Noah, an ex-military electronics whiz played by Anthony Ramos, and Elena, an artifacts researcher played by Dominique Fishback, will become embroiled in a battle when the Maximals and Predacons decide to take their fight to Earth.
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