Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
- Michael Bay originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Michael Bay's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- The original script for Transformers: Age of Extinction was written over a decade before production finally began in 2014.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Bay, the fourth installment featuring a new human cast. Mark Wahlberg replaces Shia LaBeouf as the lead, playing Cade Yeager, a struggling Texas inventor who discovers a damaged Optimus Prime hiding in an abandoned theater. When a CIA black ops unit hunting both Autobots and Decepticons comes after Cade's family, he and Optimus must evade the government while uncovering a conspiracy involving a billionaire industrialist, played by Stanley Tucci, who is manufacturing his own Transformers using a programmable metal called Transformium.
The film introduced the Dinobots β Transformers that take the form of robotic dinosaurs β in its climactic Hong Kong sequence, delivering on a fan demand that had existed since the franchise's inception. Age of Extinction earned $1.1 billion worldwide, driven primarily by an enormous Chinese box office performance of $320 million, making it the highest-grossing film ever released in China at that time.
