A few days ago, Paramount Pictures revealed the release
dates for the next three yet untitled installments in the super-profitable Transformers
franchise, along with the surprising announcement that the second in this new
trilogy would focus on Bumblebee, the yellow and voiceless Autobot.
Now, according to Paramount CEO Brad Grey, the Bumblebee
spinoff or standalone movie will have a budget cut, which makes sense.
"There are characters in the Transformers universe
that can be and should be made into their own movies. We will make the first
movie with Michael and go right into a Bumblebee movie, which will be at a
lower cost."
Is this Paramount's response to 20th Century Fox's
recent success with Deadpool? Probably not. Consider this, Transformers: Age of
Extinction cost $210 million to make, and even with product placement and tax
incentives (China), it had sixteen CGI characters plus a whole barrage of VFX,
which are expensive and inflated the budget to astronomical proportions. So
while I don't think that the Bumblebee spinoff will shy away from such artifices,
the fact that it will be focused on one character instead of a group of them will
lower the overall cost of the production.
Bumblebee comes out on June 8, 2018.
Source - THR
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