The Transformers movie franchise has accumulated over $4.8 billion at the global box office, so Hasbro and Paramount are keeping the Autobot-Decepticon war alive on the big screen. This summer, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts arrives with a globe-trotting adventure inspired by the Beast Wars storyline, which focuses on the mighty Maximals, the evil Terrorcons, and the ferocious Predacons.
The new movie is loosely based on the Beast Wars: Transformers computer-generated T.V. series that ran from 1996 to 1999. It was set in the future, roughly 300 years after the events of the original animated series, and featured the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons respectively, trying to return home after crashlanding on an unknown planet. The key elements of the series (which later became a Transformers subfranchise) have been reworked and incorporated into a story set in the 1990s, a few years after the events of Bumblebee (2018).
