

While his teenage daughter Tessa and business partner Lucas Flannery encourage him to turn Optimus over to the authorities, Cade instead fixes Optimus. Optimus, badly damaged in Mexico City, hides in Texas and is discovered by Cade Yeager, a financially struggling inventor. Lockdown locates and kills Ratchet when he refuses to give up Optimus's location.

In exchange, he gives Attinger a Seed if his division manages to capture Optimus. Lockdown, a Cybertronian assassin and bounty hunter working for the Creators, is tasked to find Optimus Prime and kill any Autobots who refuse to give up his location. Though the public believes that the Autobots were granted sanctuary, they are hunted down by a rogue CIA black ops division, Cemetery Wind, led by opportunistic, rogue intelligence operative Harold Attinger, who has delusions that all Transformers are dangerous and must be destroyed. Industries, who use it to build Transformer drones.įive years after the Battle of Chicago, humans view Transformers as hostile and terminate all joint operations with them. In the present day, geologist Darcy Tirrel excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Sixty-five million years ago, an alien race known as the "Creators" used devices called Seeds to cover Earth with a metallic alloy called "Transformium", wiping out the dinosaurs in the process. The sequel, The Last Knight, was released in June 2017.

The film was nominated for 7 awards at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, winning Worst Director for Bay and Worst Supporting Actor for Grammer. Upon release, Age of Extinction was financially successful and grossed over $1.104 billion worldwide on a $210 million budget, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the only film in 2014 to gross over $1 billion, and at that point the 10th-highest-grossing film of all time, though it received negative reviews. The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D. The film was the first feature film to be shot on smaller digital IMAX cameras, as well as various other film formats, such as IMAX 70mm film cameras, digital stereo 3D, and anamorphic and spherical 35mm film. It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, and instead introduces a new human cast and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver and T.J. Like its predecessor, the film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. The film is the fourth installment in the Transformers film series and the sequel to Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line.
