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Los Angeles - Transformers 5 will be called The Last Knight.
Director Michael Bay announced the news on his Instagram account and also revealed the shooting on the next instalment on the action sci-fi franchise - which focuses on giant transforming Autobot robots Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Wheeljack and Grimlock - will begin filming in Cuba "this week".
Alongside a short clip that featuring Optimus Prime and the title Transformers: The Last Knight, he wrote "My Next Film - starting production this week in Cuba. #autobots #transformers (sic)"
A post on the film's official Instagram account (Transformersmovie) captioned the same clip "Calling all #Autobots: Optimus Prime is ready for battle. Are you? #transformers (sic)"
See the clip here:
Mark Wahlberg will return as Cade Yeager from Age of Extinction and took to Twitter to share the news.
Alongside a link to the teaser trailer, he penned: "This guy is a machine. Optimus Prime just made his first appearance on the #transformers Instagram (sic)"
'Transformers: The Last Knight' is due for release in June 2017.
This guy is a machine. Optimus Prime just made his first appearance on the #transformers Instagram: https://t.co/5tDOFK6U2t
— Mark Wahlberg (@mark_wahlberg) May 16, 2016
The 44-year-old actor will be joined by 14-year-old Nickelodeon actress Isabela Moner as the female lead, comedian Jerrod Carmichael, whose character is yet to be revealed, and Peter Cullen, who voices the part of Optimus Prime.
I'm gonna be in some movie franchise called #Transformers5 or something? ?? @ParamountMovies robots? ?? pic.twitter.com/FU6KI4dXKG
— isabela moner (@isabelamoner) May 12, 2016
Josh Duhamel will reprise his role as the heroic Colonel Lennox - a part he held for the first three movies in the series - in the forthcoming fifth installment of the popular sci-fi thriller franchise after he decided to sit out of the last film Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014.
The exciting news was announced on the 'Transformers' official Twitter page.
The statement said: "Lieutenant Colonel Lennox is back and the universe feels safer already. (sic)"
Lieutenant Colonel Lennox is back and the universe feels safer already. #transformers pic.twitter.com/ytMqH7vY1a
— #TRANSFORMERS (@transformers) May 17, 2016
Steven Spielberg will act as executive producer on the Paramount Pictures title and the script has been written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Ehren Kruger, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan.
The Transformers movie series - based on the toys created by Hasbro and Tomy - kicked off in 2007 and catapulted actors like Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox to global fame
