As the first Transformers spinoff Bumblebee starts production today, Paramount Pictures has announced that WWE superstar John Cena is the latest to join the cast.
Cena's role in the movie is unknown for now. The actor, whose film credits include roles in Daddy's Home and Trainwreck, will star alongside Hailee Steinfeld, who's leading the cast as a character named Charlie.
The film is set in 1987, where a battle-scarred Bumblebee is on the run and finds temporary refuge in a random junkyard in a California beach town. The Transformer is then discovered by Charlie, who quickly finds out Bumblebee's definitely not a regular yellow VW bug.
Along with Cena and Steinfeld, the spinoff also stars Pamela Adlon (Louie), Stephen Schneider (Broad City), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Kenneth Choi (American Crime Story), Jason Drucker (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul), Abby Quinn (Landline), Rachel Crow (Deidra & Laney Rob a Train), Ricardo Hoyos (Degrassi: The Next Class), and Gracie Dzienny (Zoo).
Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) is directing the project from a script by Christina Hodson (Unforgettable). Transformers movie series producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Michael Bay are producing.
Bumblebee will be released in theaters on December 21, 2018. The film will go up against Aquaman, which opens on the same day.
Earlier this year, Bay revealed Bumblebee isn't the only Transformers spinoff in the works. According to the director, 14 more stories have already been written.
For our thoughts on the latest Transformers movie, read IGN's Transformers: The Last Knight review.
Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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