Right now, I can't even put into words how I feel," said Ludacris (born Chris Bridges). So to have this movie emblem, I'm blown away. I definitely never thought it was in the cards for me to have my own star because I was a music artist that transitioned into acting. “I used to walk this block as a kid when I would come to Hollywood and visit. LL Cool J, Queen Latifah and "Fast & Furious" franchise star and producer Vin Diesel were on hand for the rapper-turned-actor's emotional ceremony. I think they’re a lot of fun.”Ĭatch Shatter and Dropkick in Bumblebee when it hits US screens on December 21, Australian screens on December 20 and UK screens on December 24, with UK previews on December 15, 16 and 20.Peers from the world of hip-hop and Hollywood joined Ludacris as he accepted a star on the Walk of Fame on Thursday. “I think Angela and Justin do a great job, and I just love the way they move I love the way they look. ![]() “I just wanted a couple of really cool, interesting Decepticons that we haven’t know from the previous films and just have some fun with them,” says Knight. They were a troop of robots that transformed into flatbed trucks, used during energy raids. If the name Dropkick sounds familiar, it’s because the name has been around for a while – it’s the name given to Decepticon transport drones from the 1980s cartoon. Particularly in the state that he’s in for much of the film before he’s able to regain all his abilities and his memories.” You just want a sense that if you know these are the gathering thunderclouds on the horizon, if these two find, he’s in trouble. He’s a creature of great, great violence and you just want to have a sense that he was like a pit bull on a leash that if she let him go he was just going to rain havoc on everything around him. Voiced by Justin Theroux, Knight says, “He’s just this big, brutish thug, the brawn to her brains. Pit Bull on a Leashĭropkick is the perfect complement to Shatter. She carried nunchucks and was stolen by the Decepticons who adapted her and turned her into a more powerful machine. Nightbird, meanwhile, was a human-built robot built to benefit mankind. The character is a Triple Changer, meaning that she can change into a car – a Plymouth Satellite - as well as a Harrier Jump Jet. Shatter is voiced by American Horror Story star Angela Bassett in Bumblebee. I just thought her design was always really cool so wanted to see that woven into the franchise here.” For her design, I was inspired by this character Nightbird who was in the original series. I wanted someone who was this cold-blooded strategist, this big throbbing brain in Shatter who is also incredibly capable of violence if push comes to shove. “They don’t have a lengthy back history in the franchise. ![]() “He needed to come up against something that was formidable, and so Shatter and Dropkick - they’re essentially characters that we created for the film,” says Knight. ![]() “I wanted someone who was this cold-blooded strategist, this big throbbing brain in Shatter who is also incredibly capable of violence if push comes to shove.” With that in mind, it didn’t make sense to pit Bumblebee against a foe like, say, Megatron. But still, you look at - he’s a scout, he’s humble, he’s not as powerful as the rest of them, he’s not as strong as the rest of them. We still need antagonism, we still needed a threat, it was just going to be a smaller-scale threat, it wasn’t going to be the end of days. We were going to hone in on a corner of that canvas and really get to know one of these characters a lot better really focus in on the relationships. And I knew was going to be a smallish scale film. “It’s a huge, expansive universe here, a giant canvas they’ve been painting on in the live-action films for the last ten years. “It’s a small cast of characters,” says the animation specialist who is also president of Laika studios and director of the Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings. Cold-Blooded Strategist Shatter and Dropkick make a "fun" but "formidable" threat. Knight explains why these two characters, above others, fit into his narrative. The villains of the piece, the pair pursue Bumblebee to Earth, where they intend to grill the yellow Autobot as to Optimus Prime’s whereabouts, then destroy him. But instead, he chose to create two brand new Decepticons expressly for the film – Shatter and Dropkick. ![]() There’s a whole bunch of existing Transformers that director Travis Knight could have picked to drop into his Bumblebee origin movie.
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