>>6415095They took the insta-reboot idea from ASM2 and Civil War's timeline where ASM3 was insta-cancelled to do the MCU deal (which North Korea had an unintended hand in).
Other than that, as a moviefan I think Bee movie will bomb, if not perform poorly. TLK has done too much damage, worse than AoE given that the recent movie had a HUGE uptick in marketing only to crumble not only in domestic but also in FUCKING CHINA. Overall Bee movie has a shot of being good, decent even, but it would be likely that it won't continue on to the Unicron sequel especially since Marky Mark already called quits days before the premiere of TLK.
On the side note, Shia being a loony now means there's a chance he'd come back as a broke desperate actor to the franchise.