TRANSFORMERS 5 Will Reportedly Feature Dual Storylines

Michael Bay's Transformers films have admittedly had flashes of decent moments, but for the most part, it's been cacophonous nonsense, metallic chaos, and debris...lots and lots of debris.

But apparently — more on this in a second — a new interview with one of Transformers: Age of Extinction's voice actors indicates that the upcoming Transformers 5 will feature not one, but two different storylines in an effort to set up the cinematic universe Paramount is planning for the franchise. Dark Horizons reports that Mark Ryan, who voiced Jetfire and Lockdown in T4, told the UK-based Wings and Wheels convention that one storyline will follow Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yaeger, the Dinobots, and some of the Autobots as they try to save the Earth, while the other storyline will center on Optimus Prime as he goes into space to track down the creators of the Autobots — a group called the Quintessons — and he'll also face off against a giant evil Transformer known as Unicron.

But here's the thing: I can't figure out where any of that information is coming from. Dark Horizons quotes an outlet called Patent Herald as their source, but if you actually read that (terribly written) article, it points to a source called Christian Post (another site I've never heard of) as the one who has the quotes from Ryan at the Convention. But if you follow the trail and read that piece — which is even worse than the Patent Herald article — this is the only section that could even remotely be seen as providing any legitimate information:

Mark Ryan spoke about the project during the "Wings and Wheel" convention in the United Kingdom. He explained that the film is undergoing dual directions. He said that the first will focus on Cade and Co. With that, fans predicted that "Transformers 5" will be centered around having the Autobots on earth. The franchise plans to reinvent the brand of the movie adaptations to focus more on the transformers, as opposed to the human character present.

That's where the source trail runs cold. So if Christian Post is even telling the truth about this in the first place, all Ryan apparently said is that the first storyline focuses on Cade and Co. That's it. They don't even even mention him saying anything about the second storyline. Nothing about the Dinobots, nothing about Optimus, space, Unicron, or anything else. So where did Dark Horizons get that information? Their own sources, perhaps? Then why point its readers to Patent Herald in the first place? It's amazing how many sites are talking about this who either aren't interested in the actual quotes from Ryan, or they simply don't care and are just writing about Transformers in the hopes of generating some traffic.

So assuming this dual storyline thing happens to be true (which, admittedly, it does sound like it would make sense based on the ending of Age of Extinction — but sounding true is not the same as being true!), do you want to see these two stories play out in Transformers 5? Do you care about the future of this franchise at all, or will you vote with your wallets by not paying to see these films when they come out?