A common complaint about the Transformers movies is that the robots take a backseat. Sam Witwicky, Cade Yeager—these are the main characters of the Transformers movies, not Optimus Prime and Megatron. You might think a spinoff film focusing on one specific Transformer could change that. But don’t hold your breath.

大家普遍抱怨，在变形金刚电影中，机器人已退居二线。萨姆·维特维奇以及凯德·耶格尔成为了变形金刚电影中的主角，而不是擎天柱和威震天。你可能认为以一个特定的变形金刚为主角的续集会改变这一局面。但是不要抱太大希望。

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to star in the 2018 Bumblebee Transformers spin-off, from Kubo and the Two Strings¹ director Travis Knight². She’ll play “a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school,” which is both positive and negative. The positive is that she was amazing in True Grit³, gave the best performance in The Edge of Seventeen. She’s got a good mix of innocence⁴ and confidence that could work well in a big action movie like this.

据好莱坞报道，海丽·斯坦菲尔德在与特拉维斯·奈特导演洽谈出演2018年上映的变形金刚大黄蜂的续集，特拉维斯·奈特导演曾执导过《魔弦传说》。海丽·斯坦菲尔德将在电影中饰演“一个假小子，而且在放学后也会变成一名机修工”，这既有积极的一面，也有消极的一面。积极的一面就是，她在《大地惊雷》中的表现很精彩，在《诱惑十七岁》中也展现了个人的最佳表演。纯真和自信在她身上很好地融合在一起，在这样一部大型动作电影中，这种特质会很不错。

On the other hand, really? Another story about a gritty young kid who becomes friends with a Transformer? Haven’t we already seen this four times already? Let me guess, she and Bumblebee develop a deep friendship and he ends up saving her and maybe the world too?

另一方面，真的吗？又一个勇敢的小孩子与变形金刚成为朋友的故事？这样的故事，我们不是已经看过四次了吗？让我猜猜看，她和大黄蜂建立了深厚的友谊，最后他也救了她，也许还拯救了这个世界？

Anyway, as someone who likes Transformers in general, I was hoping the spinoffs would dive a bit deeper into the robots themselves. Doing a movie about Bumblebee, without all the other Autobots, feels like telling a focused, character-driven story about one of the Transformers—not yet another movie about the relationship between the humans and the robots.

不管怎么说，作为变形金刚的一般粉丝，我希望，这部续集将更深入地探讨机器人本身。制作一部关于大黄蜂的电影，不涉及其他所有的汽车人，感觉像是要讲述以变形金刚之一为主角的一个目标明确的故事，而不是另一部有关人类与机器人之间的关系的电影。

Knight is the one saving grace here. He’s a director who has no reason to make a movie like this unless he really wants to. As the head of Laika who has a big hand in the amazing films his company makes, the only reason he’d have to devote years of his life to making a Transformers movie is if he connected with the script. And maybe, that will include the robots getting a starring role.

由奈特执导是这部电影的唯一可取之处。他没有理由来制作这样一部电影，除非他真的愿意执导。作为莱卡电影公司的领袖，在他的公司制作那些了不起的电影时，他发挥了巨大的作用。他不得不投入几年时间来制作一部变形金刚的电影，唯一的原因可能就是他参与了剧本改编。也许，这部电影会由机器人来担任主角呢。

The Bumblebee movie is scheduled for release June 8, 2018.

这部关于大黄蜂的电影定于2018年6月8日上映。