Our team has made it into the famous Hall H and are on the scene at the Bumblebee Movie panel with juicy details on the upcoming film. Check out the full rundown after the jump!
- Brand new footage from the film will be shown, featuring the Decepticons and other characters
- Travis Knight discusses creating this “new” look for Bee, blending modern aesthetics with cartoony, more G1-inspired looks
- Cybertron is going to be featured in the film as Bumblebee’s backstory is elaborated on and why he comes to Earth in the first place
- Official confirmation that Shatter and Dropkick are triple changers!
- The seeker shown in the trailers is NOT Starscream but Blitzwing! However, it is unknown right now if he is also a triple changer.
- Footage will be shown
- Commenting on Bay’s lack of subtlety
- Bringing humor and heart to Bee movie
- Behind the scenes production stories
- Featurette on Travis Knight
- Hailey Steinfeld in hotdog on a stick store costume
- Travis Knight taking the stage
- Talking about creating Bee’s look
- Taking animation model to movie model
- Creating hybrid of modern movie aesthetic
- Approaching Bee’s animation, has greatest affinity for people
- Talking about his purpose on Earth
- Main character going through adolescence
- Cybertron will be in the movie
- Audience can come into movie not knowing Transformers
- Different layers of references
- Hailey Steinfeld taking the stage now
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr. plays Memo
- Charlie (Steinfeld) feeling lost and craves freedom before finding Bee
- Memo is a neighbor of Charlie’s
- Mention of Gobots references?
- BB will be a coming of age story
- Making sure Charlie and Bee’s relationship means something
- Talking about villains Shatter and Dropkick
- Triple-changers officially confirmed
- Shatter is inspired by Nightbird, Dropkick inspired by Megatron
- Jet is NOT Starscream
- Jet is Blitzwing
- Unsure if Blitzwing is triple-changer
- Human antagonist as well
- John Cena on stage now but not visible
- Cena plays Agent Burns
- Burns is a complicated man
- Explaining relationship between Charlie and Agent Burns
- They don’t agree with each other but in a sort of joking way (?)
- Agent Burns believes he’s right
- Actual footage will be shown
- Footage of forest scene vs military now playing
- Blitzwing and BB fighting on mountain
- Bee lost and suffered memory core failure
- Scanned VW beetle before fainting
- Garage scene
- Showing extended scene
- Charlie and BB talking for the first time
- She “named” BB
- “You look like a Bumblebee, so I’m going to call you that.”
- Shatter and Dropkick offer to help military find Bee because he’s a “criminal”
- Fight scene between Shatter, Dropkick, and Bee
- Optimus Prime appears in hologram form, looking close to G1 design
- Q&A time!
- Agent Burns is “gray” morally
- In place of Bee during shooting, man on stilts was used
- Knight: “Bumblebee will surprise people.”
- To Cena: “What did you like about Transformers?”
- “Having a Transformer is like have two toys.”
- Cena roasted by 12 year old
- Peter Cullen is asking Knight in Optimus’s voice about the lack of Prime in the footage
- “What does an Autobot have to do to get his own movie?”
- Panel over
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