Transformers 4 'Age Of Extinction' Release Date & Cast News: Shia LeBeouf And Megan Fox Replaced As Mark Wahlberg Teams Up With Optimus Prime
Transformers 4: Age of Extinction is the fourth chapter in the blockbuster film series Transformers. The latest science fiction action movie, starring Mark Wahlberg, is the follow-up to the last Transformer sequel, Dark of the Moon. It will be set four years after Chicago was invaded.
Directing the movie is Michael Bay with Steven Spielberg as executive producer (similar to the previous Transformers movies). Ehren Kruger wrote the screenplay. (He also wrote the script for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.)
Transformers 4 presents a whole new cast and Dinobots. Previous Transformers characters Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Ratchet are included in this film as well.
Spoilers of the movie have surfaced about Mark Wahlberg's character Cade Yeader, an inventor who buys an old truck one day to find out it's Optimus Prime in hiding, eventually triggering the return of the other transformers. His storyline includes new characters like his daughter Tessa Yeager and her boyfriend Shane Dyson.
The Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, single father and an aspiring inventor
- Nicola Peltz as Tessa Yeager, daughter of Case
- Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson, a race car driver and boyfriend of Tessa
- Stanley Tucci as Joshua, a conceited designer who wants to create his own robots
- Sophia Myles as Darcy, the geologist assistant of Joshua
- Kelsey Grammer as Harold Attinger, the suspicious government official
- T.J. Miller as Lucas, a mechanic and best friend of Cade
- Titus Welliver as Savoy (the team leader of agents employed by Attinger)
- Li Bingbing as Su Yueming, Chinese Transformers CEO
- Melanie Specht, the Grande Dame, senior executive assistant of Joshua
- Victoria Summer, executive assistant of Joshua
The other cast includes Han Geng, Austin Lin, Byron Li, Teresa Daley and Candice Zhao. Transformers 4: Age of Extinction is coming to cinemas on June 27, 2014 in 3D and IMAX.