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Bumblebee Originally Had References To GoBots

December 18, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee
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In an interview with Uproxx, director Travis Knight revealed that the original cut of Bumblebee had several references to the GoBots that were cut for pacing reasons. Here are highlights:

On jokes about GoBots getting cut: “You know what? I’m glad you caught that, but we had this great Gobot bit where we talk about Gobots in one iteration of the film that I wanted to keep. I held onto it as long as I possibly could, and ultimately we cut it out just for pacing. The rhythm of the film is one of the things where sometimes you have to sacrifice things that you love for the betterment of the movie. So there was this Gobot gag that we actually had in the movie that I ultimately had to cut out, just because of timing issues but, oh my god, I loved it. It was definitely something to do with Memo and I think it might actually be in when we do the deleted scenes and extras and all that kind of stuff. I think we might actually see that come to light. I hope so, because it was a lot of fun.”

On starting the film on Cybertron: “Oh? It made me happy, too. That was probably the giddiest I ever was over the course of the making of the movie, doing that part of the film. Just because it was full-on nine-year-old me trying to bring that part of the thing that I’d loved to the big screen. The opening of the animated series, it starts with the final moments of the Fall of Cybertron. And the first characters that you see are Bumblebee and Wheeljack. As they try to find a new home. And this was an opportunity for me to set the stage for what this film was. And a sense that Bumblebee is essentially alone. He has to find a new home. And his family’s been ripped away from him. But to do it in a way that was punchy and exciting and it also paid tribute to those Transformers stories and characters that I’ve known and loved since I was a kid. And so I just stuffed it with every single thing that I loved about Transformers. It’s packed to the gills with nonsense, but it was so much fun bringing to life.”

On including “The Touch”: “I love me some Stan Bush. It was either going to be that or “Dare.” And, to me, it has to be “The Touch,” but I do love “Dare” as well.”

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