Autobots, Assemble: Paramount has released the trailer for “Transformers: One,” a CGI animated prequel film featuring the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, and Scarlett Johansson.
Hemsworth voices the young Optimus Prime, known then as Orion Pax. He’s a D-16 worker bot before becoming Optimus, rivaling Megatron. The trailer shows both starting as simple worker bots, unable to change into anything. But soon they gain the ability to transform into vehicles and acquire weapons, as a war against the sinister, plant-like villain of the Transformers’ ancestral planet, Cybertron, begins.
Other cast members include Johansson as Elita, Megan Fox as Bumblebee, John Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Lawrence Fishburne as Alpha Trion. Hemsworth and Henry debuted the first glimpse of the prequel film at CinemaCon on April 11th.
The franchise first aimed for big screens with an animated film in 1986. Director Michael Bay then initiated a live-action series with stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in “Transformers” in 2007. The most recent entry, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” debuted last summer and earned $439 million worldwide.
Bay directed the primary 5 stay-action movies, with Travis Knight managing 2018’s “Bumblebee” and Steven Caple Jr.
Josh Cooley, regarded for “Toy Story 4,” is directing “Transformers: One.” Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have penned the prequel’s screenplay.
“Transformers: One” is about to launch in cinemas on September 20th.
