It's been a big casting news day for Transformers: The Last Knight. 

Hot on the heels of casting Freya 'the world's loneliest dog' in the latest installment of the mega bucks franchise, the official Transformers Twitter account has announced that Anthony Hopkins will also be joining the cast. 

This will be Hopkins' debut in the Transformers franchise and he's set to star alongside returning heroes from previous installments, Mark Wahlberg and Josh Duhamel. There are as of yet no details on the character Hopkins will be playing. 

Transformers: The Last Knight is expected to be a benchmark installment for the franchise as Paramount recently announced that they were assembling a writer's room to plot out the future of the series with spinoffs expected alongside chapters continuing the current story.