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Before the first official trailer drops for "Transformers: The Last Night" Monday, fans got their first look at next year's film in the form of a one-minute production video.
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The official "Transformers" Facebook page posted the video, which celebrates the wrapping up of the movie's production. The fifth entry in Michael Bay's franchise about alien robots blasts its way into theaters on June 23, 2017.
Here's what we noticed in the production video.
Here's Mark Whalberg as Cade Yeagar the "inventor" at the heart of the "Transformers" movies ever since Shia LaBeouf left the franchise.
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Michael Bay returned to direct "Transformers: The Last Knight."
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Anthony Hopkins, fresh off his role in "Westworld," is joining the franchise for the first time.
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We don't yet know who his character is, but it looks like he'll be a prim and proper British gentleman.
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Laura Haddock, who played Meredith Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy," also comes to the series as a new character.
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We also got another look at Squeeks, the cute Transformer we were promised earlier this year.
The video assures us that we'll still get plenty of cars and explosions.
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Is that a Transformer bursting into a fancy dinner party?
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Josh Duhamel,who plays a US soldier allied with the Autobots (the good Transformer robot aliens), is back and ready for action.
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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael joins the franchise for some comic relief, but it's unclear what role his character will play in the story.
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The movie also sees the addition of Santiago Cabrera to the cast, also for an unknown role.
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At some point in the film, Yeager gets ahold of what looks like a giant alien gun.
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"I hope I'm not pissing off The Queen. She's home, and I'm running a car at a hundred miles an hour in front of her house. I'm not English, but I don't know if that's proper."
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One of the great joys of the "Transformers" franchise is the expensive cars.
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Even Anthony Hopkins enjoys them.
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Is this the Last Knight we're supposed to see in the movie?
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In "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the third movie in the series, there was a huge battle where the city of Chicago was destroyed.
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One of the movie's big setpieces takes place in Alnwick Castle in England.
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Somehow, Stonehenge fits into all of this.
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Although the "Transformers" series is mostly about people fighting each other, it looks like Michael Bay and Anthony Hopkins struck up a friendship.
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