Silly Clip From TRANSFOMRERS ONE Shows Transformer Characters Trying to Transform for the First Time
Paramount Pictures has released a first clip from its upcoming animated film Transformers One, and it features young Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Elita-1 trying to transform for the first time in an intense situation for them.
The trailer plays out in a very silly kid-centric way. There’s no doubt that kids will enjoy this movie, but for longtime fans like myself, it’s not the Transformers movies that I wanted to see.
This movie tells the “origin story of how the most iconic characters in the Transformers universe, Orion Pax and D-16, went from brothers-in-arms to become sworn enemies, Optimus Prime and Megatron.”
The voice cast includes Chris Hemsworth as young Prime, Brian Tyree Hen as young Megatron, Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1, while Keegan-Michael Key will voice the early version of Bumblebee (B-127). Laurence Fishburne will voice Alpha Trion, and Jon Hamm will voice Sentinel Prime.
Ramsey Naito, president of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation said: "I'm so excited and proud to be working with Hasbro and eOne to bring the first animated Transformers movie to theaters for a never-before-told story.
"I'm honored to have such incredible talents come together to portray these well-known and much-loved characters in an origin story at the heart of the franchise."
Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura previously said: "This is … the origin story of young Megatron and young Optimus. If you know the origin, they started as friends, and over time things devolved for them and they ended up on two sides.
“So we're telling the young Optimus and the young Megatron story. We really are telling the origin story of all Transformers, both what they were at the beginning of it, to how they grow, to how they grow apart."
This will be the first of what Di Bonaventura calls a "natural trilogy,” and it’s going to explore “Cybertron in a way you've never seen it, that no one's ever seen it before.”
The film is being directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) from a script he wrote with Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.
The movie will be released on September 20th, 2024.
The #TransformersOne crew rolls out on the #KCA stage for an exclusive clip 💥 Catch #TransformersOne only in theatres September 20. pic.twitter.com/HPeGLeQEtk
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