4) Origin Story
As is usual for first trailers, this one doesn’t give us a great deal of detail about the story of the movie – not that we really watch Transformers for the engrossing narratives, anyway. However, Anthony Hopkins’ character does drop one juicy line in the trailer which goes someway to suggesting what The Last Knight will deliver.
“One hundred million trillion planets in the cosmos,” Hopkins says. “You want to know, don’t you? Why they keep coming here…”
Put this together with the shots of Dinobots in Arthurian times, and it looks like the movie will explore the origin story of the robots in disguise – and will presumably reveal that they’re tied in with Earth.
Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has explained a little bit about how the film will tackle this element of the mythos, saying the following:
“[The movie will explore how the mythology of how the Transformers] were created, where did it start, where did they go from being a sort of a slave-race to a sentient race–we’re delving into that aspect of the mythology, so the characters that are involved in there are Megatron before he’s Megatron, Optimus before he’s Optimus, the Librarian, the Quintessons, there’s a whole group of things that have to do with how, in a sense, the Transformers were birthed, and also with how they were divided. What brought up the division, and what were the jealousies involved.”