TRAILER WATCH - BUMBLEBEE

No, BUMBLEBEE isn't directed by Michael Bay. 

The very first spinoff from the studio’s wildly lucrative Transformers film franchise sees LAIKA CEO and Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight making his live-action directing debut on the pic, which finds Hailee Steinfeld taking on the lead human role in a story that takes place in the 1980s.

Indeed, Bumblebee will set itself apart from Michael Bay‘s five Transformers films in that it is set in the 1980s and tells a smaller scale story, with the titular Transformer befriending a young girl. The tone is said to be more in line with a coming-of-age/teen movie, with Bumblebee featuring as one of the only major Transformers in the film. That’s a stark contrast to Bay’s movies, in which the fate of the entire planet is on the line. 

See the first trailer here: