The BUMBLEBEE Solo Movie will be Helmed by KUBO Director Travis Knight

Paramount Pictures has hired Travis Knight to direct their Transformers Bumblebee spinoff movie. Knight is the director behind last year's stop-motion animated masterpiece Kubo and the Two Strings, which was robbed at the Oscars this year. 

Hiring Knight to direct the film might just be one of the best decisions that the studio could have made. The guy has proven that he has a great sense of character development and storytelling. This would be his first live action film and I think he'll do a great job with it and give fans something spectacularly cool!

The screenplay fro the film was written by Christina Hodson (Shut In) and it will be produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventure, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.

In case you didn't already know, Knight is the son of Nike founder Phil Knight and he's also president and CEO of Laika, which is the studio that made Kubo and the Two Strings and all of the other delightful stop-motion animated films such as The BoxtrollsParaNorman and Coraline.

There are no story details that have been released for the film yet, but I'm sure it will be a wild action-packed adventure. The movie is scheduled to be released on June 8, 2018.

Via: Deadline

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