The series has been distributed by Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Pictures worked on the first two films. A sixth film Bumblebee, directed by Travis Knight, was released in 2018, while a seventh film, Rise of the Beasts, directed by Steven Caple Jr. Michael Bay directed the first five live action films: Transformers (2007), Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014), and The Last Knight (2017), and has served as a producer for subsequent films.
Transformers is a series of science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise of the 1980s.