Transformers: Age of Extinction is a grave.
Mark Wahlberg . In the 2010s , he starred in the action comedy The Other Guys alongside Will Ferrell , the biographical sports drama The Fighter ( for which he earned an Academy Award nomination as a producer for Best Picture ) , the comedy Ted , the war film Lone Survivor , the crime comedy Pain & Gain , the science fiction action film Transformers : Age of Extinction , the disaster film Deepwater Horizon , and the thriller Patriots Day . Michael Benjamin Bay ( born February 17 , 1965 ) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing big-budget action films characterized by fast cutting , stylistic visuals and extensive use of special effects , including frequent depictions of explosions . Optimus Prime ( formerly Orion Pax ) is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise . Transformers : Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers franchise . It is the first film in the series to not feature the original human characters from the first three films , but features a new cast of human characters and many new Transformers including : the Dinobots , Lockdown , Stinger , Junkheap , Hound , Crosshairs and Drift .