TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS Character Posters Feature Optimus Prime, Mirage, and Optimus Primal
Paramount Pictures has a few character posters for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and they feature the characters Optimus Prime, Mirage, and Optimus Primal. All of these characters will play a big part in the story, a story that I hope actually turns out to be good. The last film, Bumblebee, set a high bar for Transformers storytelling, and I don’t want this next Transformers movie to take a step backwards, which is likely.
In the film: “Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.”
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is being directed by Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II), who previously talked about the film, saying: "The main hero is Optimus, as we all know and love. We're bringing Prime back, paying direct homage to Generation One. I care so much about this character that I really wanted to dive into Transformers, and I saw a Bumblebee and I was like, okay, Bumblebee had his own movie, but I want to discover more about Optimus Prime, dig underneath the surface, get underneath the metal, if you would, and like explore who he is and his experience here on earth, you know?"
He continued, saying: "I know everyone has been asking like crazy, are we going, G1, are we going to G1? The answer is, yes, we are going to G1, the Prime. It's 1994, and in a way, both the animated series and the Bay films treat Optimus the same in the sense of who he is as a leader, what is his drive? All those things. What we've done is we're bringing it back to where you see how he becomes, what you're familiar with. And that's big new news."
The director went on to talk about Prime’s emotional tie to planet Earth, saying: "When you say got to where he is, you mean 'we need to protect these earthlings and this biological planet.’ The way to look at it is he's new to earth and he doesn't have a connection to earth the way we met him in the Bay films and the way we met him in the animated series where he's already a protector of Earth. And so in this film, it's forming, why does he have a link to humanity? And why does he have a link to earth? And that's emotional...At the beginning of Bumblebee, we showed, he escaped from Cybertron his home planet. And so in a sense, he's he literally is like an ex-pat here, right? He's landed. He's, he's an alien and he's never been here before. And so it allows us to get underneath say the stoicism of what we're traditionally presented in an Optimus."
The movie stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Valez, Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, and Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal.
The film arrives in theaters June 9, 2023. Enjoy the new trailer!
