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https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-bumblebees-1980s-setting-turned-it-into-every-trans-1831159187

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By setting Bumblebee 20 years before the events of Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers film, Hodson freed herself from the constant struggle to maintain continuity between the timelines that a sequel would have presented. “I never worried myself with words like ‘prequel’ or ‘reboot’ or ‘restart’ or anything like that,” she said. “I just tried to look at it as its own thing...because we have the luxury of being back in time.
However, continuity between the worlds does remain. Knight and the producers still felt Bumblebee had to be a part of that world that stretched over 10 years, five movies and over $4 billion in global box office. “The important thing was not only that it had some connective tissue with the films Michael has made but that it had some deep connective tissue with the origins of the series,” Knight said.
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The idea of a Cybertron scene was so irresistible, in fact, that Knight originally storyboarded an even more epic version of the scene, though he later realized that vision was impossible.
“I had this whole thing boarded where we’re where we see [Decepticon leader] Megatron and he comes in like Sauron, just blowing shit up and laying waste to everything,” Knight said. However, he then realized in this world, Megatron is currently frozen on Earth, as seen in 2007's Transformers, so that was out.
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각본가는 타작품과의 상관관계에 사로잡히기 보단 1편의 샘&카마로 처럼 찰리&비틀의 관계에 집중했음.
그러나 트레비스 감독은 g1스타일을 집어 넣고 사이버트론을 재현하는 와중에도, 범무비의 시점이 메가트론이 지구에 있을 시점이란 것을 알고 메가트론을 사이버트론 씬에 등장시키지 않는 것을 포함, 10년간 쌓여온 마베포머와의 연결을 신경쓴 걸로 보이는 인터뷰인데...

결국 지금 시점에서 범무비가 리부트는 아닌거 같다...