Some possible details for the fifth Transformers movie have become known from veteran voice-actor Mark Ryan, who provided the voice of Lockdown in Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
The new details for Transformers 5 include mention that the first direction will focus on Mark Wahlberg’s Cade and supporting characters, while the second would would focus more on the Transformers.
There are also rumors flying around that the second direction in Transformers 5 would see Optimus Prime heading out into space in search of possibly the Quintessons and/or Unicron, which would set up the future of the franchise.
Recently it became known that Paramount had created a Transformers writers group with the goal to create a big Transformers shared universe ala Marvel’s movie universe.
The Transformers writers group is led by Akiva Goldsman and consists of Zak Penn (Last Action Hero, The Avengers), Jeff Pinker(Lost), Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Christina Hodson, Lindsey Beer, Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man), Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down), Steven S. DeKnight (Daredevil) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.
Transformers 5 is due out in 2017 with it looking likely Michael Bay will return to direct.