After Michael Bay‘s alleged retirement from the Transformers franchise, a little bit of fancy footwork from the Paramount studio (and by fancy footwork I mean Heisenberg-styled drums of cash) has the man back behind the camera for Transformers 4, which is now officially titled Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Although original-trilogy star Shia LaBeouf has stepped away from this fourth giant robot punching each other film, Bay has filled his shoes with wildcard Marky Mark Wahlberg. While there is no official synopsis yet from the studio, a “leaked” idea of the film, per RopeofSilicon, has the Autobots and Decepticons out of the picture: 

“As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.”

Early reports point to the newest faction of shape-shifting-robots will involve a species known as the Dinobots who, you guessed it!, are dinosaurs/robots. While I’m all for injecting dinosaurs into the mainstream as often as possible, the fact that dinosaurs are, uh, extinct kinda makes them stick out more than, say, a 18-wheeler truck or a Toyota. It’s not like we’d walk down the street and think, “Nothing to worry about here. That’s definitely not a robot, just a T-Rex.”

 Transformers: Age of Extinction is directed by Michael Bay and stars Mark Walhberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammar, T.J. Miller and Sophia Myles. It hits theaters on June 27, 2014.

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