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Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
In an interview Hailee Steinfeld revealed that her "Edge of Seventeen" writer/director/producer Kelly Fremon Craig did a rewrite of the script.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
In this film, Transformers take on a more classic look of the original cartoon series.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
While the Transformers cast take on a more G1-esque appearance in this movie, the titular character retains only the vehicle mode of his 80's counterpart, appearing more like a rounded version of his Bay-style design.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Second film in which Hailee Steinfeld plays a character whose father passed away from a heart attack. The Edge of Seventeen (2016) was the first.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The scene in which Charlie is trying to repair Bumblebee and unwittingly activates Optimus Prime's holographic message after declaring "There's something stuck here", is a homage to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), with the same scene occurring between Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and the hologram of Princess Leia.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Hailee Steinfeld was already 20 when playing a soon to be 18 year old Charlie.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
This is director Travis Knight's first live-action film.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
A cinema hall holds a poster for Gremlins (1984). This film was produced by "Transformers" producer Steven Spielberg and starred "Transformers" veteran voice actors Peter Cullen and Frank Welker.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Despite being filmed spherically with ARRI Alexa cameras, Filmed in Panavision is listed in the end credits.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
When Charlie is getting ready to leave the house and help Bumblebee after he had been taken, the preparations and music resemble those of the iconic 1980s action flick Commando (1985).
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
When faced with Sector 7, Shatter presents herself and Dropkick as "Decepticon Peacekeepers" to the humans in order to gain their trust and sattelite access. This may or may not be a reference to the Decepticon Justice Division from the IDW comic series.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
While Shatter and Dropkick are the two most prominent Triple Changers throughout the live action Transformers movies thus far, they are not technically the first. Age of Extinction's (2014) Autobot Drift featured both a helicopter and Bugatti Veyron mode, the former mode being entirely absent from the succeeding movie, The Last Knight.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Hailee Steinfeld is the first female lead in the Transformers film franchise.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The test screening of Bumblebee featured many differences from the final theatrical cut, among them being a scene that would've entirely confirmed the movie as being a prequel to Transformers (2007). This credits stinger depicts Sector 7 agents stating that the Autobots cannot learn of NBE-1's existence, NBE-1 of course being what the group called Megatron in the 2007 movie. The shot would cut to Megatron in the G1-esque style the rest of the Transformers cast appeared as, preserved in cryogenics. This scene was cut from the final version due to Travis Knight wanting the movie to be largely one that could be enjoyed without needing prior knowledge on any of the Bay movies before it.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
John Cena is the third wrestler to appear in a "Transformers" feature, after Dwayne Johnson (who played Cliffjumper in Transformers Prime (2010)) and Joe Seanoa (who played Predaking in Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018)). Cena is also the third wrestler to appear in a Michael Bay feature, after Johnson (who was in Bay's film Pain & Gain (2013)) and Stephen Farrelly (who played Rocksteady in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)).
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Hailee Steinfeld's Bumblebee mom Pamela Adlon voiced the daughter of Steinfeld's Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) mom Katey Sagal on Recess (1997).
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The transport truck that Bumblebee drives beside at the end of the movie is a replica of the form that Optimus Prime takes in the 1980s which is a Kenworth 100 truck in the Transformers cartoon series.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
When Charlie is getting dared to jump off of the cliff, Bumblebee briefly plays "The Touch" by Stan Bush on his radio. "The Touch" was the main theme song for The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and subsequently used in the television series.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
This is the first live-action Transformers that Michael Bay did not direct, but he stayed on board as producer.
Bumblebee - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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