• “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is ready earlier than 2007’s “Transformers.”
• Some parts within the film battle with the occasions of the earlier Michael Bay-directed motion pictures.
• Director Steven Caple Jr. instructed Insider that producers cared extra about telling the “greatest story.”

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” didn’t have to stay to the timeline established within the earlier motion pictures, director Steven Caple Jr. has mentioned.

Whereas the primary 5 live-action “Transformers” motion pictures could be watched in chronological order, each “Bumblebee” and “Rise of the Beasts” are set earlier than Michael Bay’s unique 2007 film.

Nevertheless, sure parts within the new motion pictures battle with the occasions of the earlier motion pictures, similar to Optimus Prime arriving on Earth 20 years sooner than proven in “Transformers,” and Unicron being a planet-eating villain in “Rise of the Beasts” quite than a Transformer dwelling inside the Earth, as was established in “The Final Knight.”

Talking in regards to the continuity, Caple instructed Insider:  “We tried to maintain it as shut as we will, however ‘Bumblebee’ already had inventive liberties with Optimus Prime touchdown right here on Earth and being right here on the finish of it.”

“We have broke it a bit there. I wasn’t right here for that part however I simply need to choose up the place ‘Bumblebee’ left off,” he added.

Caple continued: “We weren’t attempting to get too deep into it the place we’re messing up the Sam Witwicky storyline, however as a venture evolves, I feel it’ll discover its personal mild and its personal course, which I am enthusiastic about. However I feel for us, Paramount and Hasbro, was like, ‘What’s the greatest story proper now?’”

“Transformers” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura instructed Insider that he would not see the modifications to the timeline as “inconsistencies.”

“What we’re attempting to do is discover the characters another way. And so what’s enjoyable about going again to 1994 is we will introduce Optimus Prime another way than once we met him in 2007, and in a way, what you are able to do then is perceive who he turned in 2007,” Bonaventura mentioned. “He is nonetheless getting used to us and he is pissed he is not house.”

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is in theaters now.