Transformers trailer: How to watch the trailer for Bumblebee online

After Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014, Paramount decided to try to turn the live-action Transformers series into a cinematic universe.

However, 2017’s Transformers: The Last Knight’s under-performance at the global box office led to Paramount putting that on hold.

But now everyone’s favourite Autobot is finally getting his very own origin story.

Bumblebee has finished production and is here to maybe reignite the zest for an Autobot cinematic universe.

How to watch Bumblebee trailer online.

You can watch the Bumblebee trailer right here at Express.co.uk.

Bumblebee was written by Christina Hodson, the first woman to pen a Transformers movie.

Though she is a new name to movie-goers, Hodson has had three scripts on the Black List, an annual list of Hollywood’s best-liked but unproduced screenplays.

Maybe a break from Michael Bay is what the Transformers franchise needs to get back in the game.

You can watch the trailer above, and see the first poster for the origin story below.

The trailer takes viewers back to the 1980s in a small town in California.

Hailee Steinfeld plays Charlie, a soon-to-be 18-year-old mechanic who finds a broken-down yellow VW bug in a junkyard.

Audiences will recognise Steinfeld from True Grit as Mattie Ross, a role for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

When Charlie tries to repair the car, she learns that there’s more to the VW than she initially thought.

The trailer has few details, being just a teaser, but seems to be a quieter, more intimate film than its predecessors.

John Cena also appears briefly in the Bumblebee trailer, wielding a rather large gun.

Optimus Prime may also make an appearance in the Bumblebee movie, though he doesn’t appear in the trailer.

Other than that, Bumblebee seems to be the main bot, taking centre stage for his eponymous origin story.

Bumblebee is out in UK cinemas Wednesday, 26 December 2018.