Midroad Movie Review’s first trailer recut is Transformers: Subversion
With the new Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer having hit, and the film just around the corner, I thought it would be a great opportunity to try my hand at a trailer recut. I’ve thought up a fun little story, and using trailers from the four existing live-action Transformers movies I created what I call The Transformers: Subversion.
The trailer imagines a film in which Shia LaBeouf’s Sam WitWicky and Mark Wahlberg’s Cade Yeager find their respective Transformer pals Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, and their paths cross when the government comes calling. Hundreds of Transformers come out of hiding, and they’ve got other plans for their existence the hierarchy of the planet.
Check out the fun fan made trailer for The Transformers: Subversion after the jump.
Transformers, in their many forms, have been living docile, content, and hidden on Earth from humanity for centuries. We like to believe they exist, that they’re out there making the planet just a little better for everything on it, but the myths and speculation surrounding their sightings have become as outlandish as those of Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. Until now.Sam Witwicky is just starting college, which means moving out of his parents’ place, navigating higher education, and getting himself a new car. At least, new to him. Rusted yellow with stripes is barely in his budget. He finds a strange, broken piece of rock shoved between the seats, and his new car soon proves to be much more than a beat up old sports car.
Cade Yeager buys and breaks down old cars, trucks, tractors, and anything he can get his hands on in hopes of putting away a little money for his kids’ college fund and a quiet life in the country. A piece-of-junk semi-truck is next on the chopping block, but this is holding more secrets than salvage.
Sam and Cade’s paths cross when the government comes calling, having found evidence the Transformers exist and can be mined for incomprehensible wealth, military applications, and energy resources. Rooting them out and hunting them down is argued to be our most profitable option. The Transformers, surfacing by the hundreds, have a different idea regarding who’s in control of the planet, and they think it’s time for a new hierarchy.
As humans struggle to outrun an inevitable extinction, a small few fight to save the ones they love, bridge the gap between man and machine, and forge a future worth sharing.