Navigating the Temporal Maze: Understanding the Complex Timeline of Transformers Films

The timeline of the Transformers projects has grown increasingly complex, making it a bit of a puzzle to figure out. Recent entries such as Bumblebee and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts appear to operate independently, separate from the five Michael Bay films released between 2007 and 2017. These newer movies are seemingly stand-alone efforts, yet in a chronological sense, they occur after the previous five films. This situation is reminiscent of the superhero multiverse movies, which are becoming equally hard to keep up with.

The confusion doesn't end there, as the producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who has been involved in every Transformers live-action film to date, announced at the San Diego Comic-Con that the upcoming animated film, Transformers One, will be set three billion years before the events of Transformers (2007).

Screen Rant has also reported that Transformers One is set three billion years prior to the timeline established in previous films. Despite the fact that space travel requires a considerable amount of time, three billion years seems almost excessive. This is especially notable for a franchise centered around a robotic species that can transform into vehicles resembling human inventions, which wouldn’t appear for billions of years in human history.

What do you think about the time setting of Transformers One? Is three billion years too much, even for a franchise based on fictional concepts?