Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will honor '90s action movies with its period setting.

In a press conference attended by ComingSoon and other outlets, director Steven Caple Jr. discussed how the '90s backdrop of the new Transformers film will help texture the movie and link it to Bumblebee.

"As a fan and watching all the Transformers films, and then stepping into Bumblebee, I love the way he went back into '87," Steven Caple Jr. said. "Again, it adds again to the nostalgia and something that people remember or connect to. So I was curious, when I met Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] and the team, I was like, where are we picking this thing up from? He was like 1994, and I was just like, that’s a great era. You know what I mean? It has a lot of texture. It’s rich, its texture is also vibrant culturally. It has classic music and there’s a certain energy to the '90s that I’m looking forward to capturing."

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"We’ve seen it on screen very few times, sometimes a little hokey, you play into it too much, but I think there’s a level of realness that I could bring to it," the director continued. "There’s a level of grit, but grit that I kinda naturally default to, that we can really make pop, you know, in terms of our world and the Autobots stepping into the 90s and all the callbacks and fun we can sort of play with there in that era."

As for whether the movie will homage certain films, like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Caple Jr. said the new Transformers will certainly fit into the lineage of the classic '90s action film.

"I think you’ll feel the sense of a journey and expedition in this film," Caple Jr. said. "This go-around connects all of those to what you’re saying. Terminator 2 is classic. The heaviness of the metal, if you will, all that stuff plays into it. So I think when you’re looking at our film and looking at sort of where we’re taking it, [we] kind of want to bring that classic expedition, that classic journey through New York and where we go from there."

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the seventh film in the franchise, will see the action jump from Bumblebee's '80s setting to New York City in 1994. It will see the return of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, along with the introduction of classic characters like Arcee. And it will finally bring the Maximals into the live-action films as Optimus Primal, Rhinox and Airazor have all been confirmed for the movie.

Directed by Steven Caple Jr., Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Peter Cullen and Ron Perlman. The film has yet to receive a release date.

Source: via ComingSoon