Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is set in the 1990s, and director Steven Caple Jr. discussed how the film will reflect the era’s action classics. Cagle discussed the film’s style during the recent press conference announcing details of the movie, and you can see some highlights below per CS.net:
On the film’s 1990s action style: “As a fan and watching all the
Transformers films, and then stepping into
Bumblebee, I love the way he went back into ’87. Again, it adds again to the nostalgia and something that people remember or connect to. So I was curious, when I met Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] and the team, I was like, where are we picking this thing up from? He was like 1994, and I was just like, that’s a great era. You know what I mean? It has a lot of texture. It’s rich, its texture is also vibrant culturally. It has classic music and there’s a certain energy to the 90s that I’m looking forward to capture. Like we’ve seen it on screen very few times, sometime