The animated origin story of Autobot chief Optimus Prime and his Decepticon rival Megatron will come to the large display screen this September in Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry voicing the chums turned enemies. The primary trailer for Transformers One units the tone for the Cybertron-set journey, with Prime (then generally known as Orion Pax) and Megatron being fairly chummy in a buddy comedy form of manner.
However Paramount Footage has promised that Transformers One will clarify how the pair devolve from brothers-in-arms to sworn enemies, so anticipate loads of drama within the Industrial Gentle & Magic-animated characteristic. However as the primary trailer illustrates, anticipate a good quantity of snickers and motion.
Optimus Prime and Megatron’s early years have been explored in animated sequence and comedian books, however Transformers One seems to be an authentic tackle their shared origin story. It additionally guarantees to have a Unicron-sized scope, in accordance with longtime Transformers film sequence producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. “You can not make this film live-action,” the producer instructed Polygon final yr. “If we did it in live-action it might value twice what we usually would spend on an enormous Transformers film.”
Becoming a member of Hemsworth and Henry within the animated movie’s solid are Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion. Josh Cooley, the previous Pixar artist and screenwriter who directed Toy Story 4, is helming Transformers One. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, who co-wrote Ant-Man and the Wasp and Hulu’s No Exit, penned the script.
Transformers One will hit film theaters on Sept. 13.