Transformers: Age of Extinction (Film)

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Directed by	Michael Bay
Produced by	Lorenzo di Bonaventura Tom DeSanto Don Murphy Ian Bryce
Written by	Ehren Kruger
Based on	Transformers  by Hasbro
Starring	Mark Wahlberg Stanley Tucci
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography	Amir Mokri
Edited by	William Goldenberg Roger Barton Paul Rubell
Production companies	Hasbro Di Bonaventura Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 19, 2014 (Hong Kong) June 27, 2014 (United States)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$210 million
Box office	$1.104 million

Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fourth installment of the live-action Transformers film series and a stand-alone sequel to 2011's Dark of the Moon, taking place five years after its events. Like its predecessors, it was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, with Steven Spielberg and Bay as executive producers. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T. J. Miller with Peter Cullen reprising as the voice of Optimus Prime. It is the first film in the series not to feature the human cast from the previous three films, but features a new cast of human characters and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D.

Transformers: Age of Extinction received largely negative reviews from critics, many of whom considered it poorly directed, badly acted, terribly written, overlong, and full of product placement, but received some praise for its action sequences, stunts, effects, musical score and the performances of Wahlberg, Tucci, Grammer, Cullen, Ryan, Welker, Watanabe, Goodman, DiMaggio, Foxworth, and Wilson. The film received seven nominations at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, with Bay and Grammer winning the awards for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor, respectively.

Despite poor reviews, it was a massive box office success, grossing over $1.104 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the second-highest-grossing film in the Transformers series, the 19th film to gross over $1 billion, and the 23rd-highest-grossing film of all time. It was the sole film to gross over $1 billion in 2014.

A sequel, The Last Knight, was released on June 21, 2017, with Wahlberg, Tucci, and Cullen returning, and Bay directing.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Voices 2.2 Non-speaking characters 2.3 Cameos 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Casting 3.3 Filming 3.4 Incidents 3.5 Post-production 4 Music 5 Release 5.1 Marketing 5.2 Video games 6 Reception 6.1 Box office 6.1.1 Worldwide 6.1.2 North America 6.1.3 Outside North America 6.1.4 Authenticity over North American box office opening 6.2 Critical response 6.3 Home media 7 Accolades 8 Sequels 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 External links

Plot

Cast

Main article: List of Transformers film series cast and characters

• Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager,
  A single father and struggling inventor replacing Sam Witwicky.
• Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce,
  An ambitious businessman and the arrogant head of KSI who wants to build his own Transformers replacing Seymour Simmons.
• Kelsey Grammer as Harold Attinger,
  A paranoid CIA operative and government official who created the CIA black-ops unit, Cemetery Wind to eliminate all Transformers, Autobot or Decepticon, from Earth.
• Nicola Peltz as Tessa Yeager,
  Cade's daughter who is secretly dating Shane replacing both Mikaela Banes and Carly Spencer.
• Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson,
  Tessa's boyfriend and an Irish rally car driver replacing Leo Spitz
• Titus Welliver as James Savoy,
  A ruthless CIA Agent and second-in command of the Cemetery Wind working for Attinger.
• Sophia Myles as Darcy Tyril,
  Joshua's geologist assistant and ex-girlfriend.
• Bingbing Li as Su Yueming, (苏月明 Sū Yuèmíng)
  The owner of the Chinese factory used by KSI to build their artificial Transformers.
• T. J. Miller as Lucas Flannery,
  Cade's best friend and a mechanic.
• James Bachman as Gill Wembley,
  A scientist working with Joshua Joyce at KSI.
• Thomas Lennon as the Chief of Staff.

Greg Anderson, Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer play Joshua's assistants. Han Geng portrays himself, playing the guitar and singing in a parked car that is magnetized by Lockdown's ship. Edward T. Welburn plays a KSI executive. Kevin Covais and Ray Lui plays motorists.

Voices

• Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime
  The leader of the Autobots who transforms into a rusty Marmon 97 semi truck and later, a blue and red Western Star 5700 XE semi-trailer truck with flame decals.
• Frank Welker as Galvatron
  A human-made KSI Transformer drone intended to be modeled after Optimus Prime, but ultimately using data downloaded from the remains of Megatron. It is later revealed that the Galvatron drone has become possessed by the Decepticon leader, who molecularly transforms into a black and grey 2014 Freightliner Argosy cab over trailer truck
• John Goodman as Hound
  An Autobot commando who transforms into an Oshkosh Defense Medium Tactical Vehicle.
• Ken Watanabe as Drift
  A Samurai-motif Autobot, tactician and a former Decepticon assassin who transforms into a black and blue 2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse and a Sikorsky S-97 Raider Helicopter.
• Robert Foxworth as Ratchet
  The Autobot medical officer who transforms into a white and green 2004 Search and rescue Hummer H2 ambulance.
• John DiMaggio as Crosshairs
  An Autobot paratrooper and elite sniper who transforms into a black and green 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray.
• Mark Ryan as Lockdown
  An extremely powerful, relentless, heavily enhanced, ruthless Cybertronian bounty hunter who transforms into a grey 2013 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700–4 Coupe and is hired by the mysterious Creators to bring Optimus Prime back to them.
• Reno Wilson as Brains
  A former Decepticon drone turned Autobot who survived the Battle of Chicago and has lost his right leg.

Non-speaking characters

• Bumblebee
  An Autobot scout and Optimus Prime's new second in command, who communicates through voice clips and sound bites via his radio who transforms into a modified 1967 Chevrolet Camaro and later, a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro concept.
• Grimlock, the leader of the Dinobots who transforms into a mechanical horned, fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus.
• Strafe
  A Dinobot who specializes in assault infantry and transforms into a mechanical two-headed, two-tailed Pteranodon.
• Slug
  The Dinobots' destroyer who transforms into a mechanical spiked and bestial Triceratops.
• Scorn
  The Dinobots' demolition specialist who transforms into a mechanical three-sailed Spinosaurus.
• Stinger
  a human-made KSI Transformer modeled after Bumblebee who later becomes a Decepticon and molecularly transforms into a red and black 2013 Pagani Huayra.
• Junkheap
  A human-made KSI Transformer who later becomes a Decepticon under Galvatron's control and molecularly transforms into a Mack garbage truck of Waste Management, Inc.
• "Traxes"
  A human-made KSI Transformers modeled after Roadbuster who later becomes a Decepticon under Galvatron's control and molecularly transform into red, blue, black or white Chevrolet Traxes.
• "Two-Heads"
  A two-headed human-made KSI Transformers modeled from the remains of Shockwave who later becomes a Decepticon under Galvatron's control.
• "KSI Bosses"
  A human-made KSI Transformers modeled after Soundwave who later become Decepticons under Galvatron's control.
• Steeljaws
  Savage techno-organic wolf-like minions of Lockdown.

Cameos

Ironhide, Arcee, Wheeljack, Loader, Shockwave and Starscream make cameos, depicted on cards stamped with an X to indicate their deaths. The leader of the Wreckers, Leadfoot, makes a cameo voiced by Robert Foxworth in video footage shown after Cade steals the KSI spy drone, shown being killed by humans from Cemetery Wind. Sentinel Prime and Megatron's heads are seen in the KSI labs, where they download data from the dead Transformers' remains. Barricade and some Decepticon Protoforms make cameos in footage from the Battle of Chicago. The Insecticons make a cameo, transferring data from Megatron's mind, infecting the Galvatron drone.

Production

Development

Casting

Filming

Incidents

Post-production

Music

Main article: Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Score

Release

Marketing

Video games

Main article: Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

Reception

Box office

Worldwide

North America

Outside North America

Authenticity over North American box office opening

Critical response

Home media

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipients	Result

Sequels

Main article Transformers: The Last Knight

See also

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• List of films featuring drones

Notes

1. ^ The $100 million opening for Transformers: Age of Extinction is disputed within the industry. According to Rentrak—which has a direct line into the vast majority of theaters in the United States and Canada to track actual ticket sales—about 4,100 of the 4,233 theaters playing the film generated $95.9 million. The projected total from the Rentrak sales data would put the opening three-day weekend gross at around $97.5 million. For Transformers to have crossed the $100 million threshold, it would have needed to gross more than the nation-wide average in the theaters not tracked by Rentrak. Some media outlets have elected to go with the Rentrak figure.
2. ^ A final number on Transformers: Age of Extinction tends to vary between the Paramount reported $301 million and local data that reported $320 million.

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