Rise of the Beasts might have found a way to fix the Transformers movies’ human problem

While Paramount and Hasbro's live-action Transformers movies have always been fanservice-focused visual triumphs, they've been consistently held back by the studio's erroneous belief that people line up for these things wanting to see regular human people become friends with robots. Though that has never and will never be the case, one detail from the latest trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - which features at least two human protagonists - suggests that Paramount's been thinking about how to address this issue. And their solution's a wild one.

Human / Cybertronian partnerships were a big part of the Transformers franchise long before Michael Bay got his hands on it, and Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwitcky in Bay's first...

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