Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Edge of Seventeen) is in talks to star in the Transformer spinoff Bumblebee for Paramount Pictures.
Bumblebee is the yellow and black striped Autobot character that appears in all five of the main series films. Steinfeld will play a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school.
Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight will direct from a script by Christina Hodson (Shut In).
The project is the first spinoff in a planned Transformers Cinematic Universe that lays its foundations with this Summer’s Transformers: The Last Knight.
Bumblebee is slated for a June 8th 2018 release.
