Paramount Footage is growing a big-budget animated Transformers movie titled Transformers One, and it brings collectively an all-star forged that features Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime, Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron, Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion.
Keegan-Michael Key not too long ago did an interview, which teased his tackle the voice of Bumblebee within the movie, saying that he’s bringing a whole lot of himself to it. He advised Collider:
“For enjoying Bumblebee, it’s humorous, [there’s] not a whole lot of affectation to my voice. The director of this, he goes, ‘I really need your voice. I simply need Keegan’s voice.’ So it’s type of Keegan as Bumblebee. You’ll see. It’s fascinating. Not like [Migration], the place I’m working in a dialect or I’m doing one thing like Tremendous Mario Bros. the place I’m actually attempting to disguise my voice, this one I’m bringing a whole lot of me to it.”
Hemsworth beforehand talked about his method to enjoying Optimus Prime, saying:
“The Optimus Prime that you simply hear on the display within the movies is an older, mature . . . you recognize, he’s been round for a lot of, many, many, a few years. That is the type of origin story, so it’s the youthful model of him. So there are type of hints and colorings that hopefully resonate sufficient with the Optimus Prime we all know, however it’s a youthful model of him, and totally different. However he received’t be Australian.”
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura additionally beforehand talked about his pleasure for Hemsworth enjoying Prime, and praised his voice, saying:
“Additionally, it’s the creativeness of our artists and our director, and one of many nice issues is, as you really put the voices to the characters. After we first hearken to Chris Hemsworth’s voice, you’re like, ‘God, is he gonna be an excellent Optimus!’ Clearly, he begins as Orion Pax and also you don’t develop into Optimus for some time, so he’s not enjoying, for many of the film, what we consider as Optimus, Peter Cullen. So it’s that transition, and Chris’s voice has a timbre that… it’s logical that Peter Cullen would take over that voice, in the event you would, which is admittedly nice, the followers are gonna actually really feel nice.”
Transformers One is a prequel movie that revolves across the origins of Cybertron, and the story will heart on a younger Optimus Prime and Megatron who’re discovering their path. It was beforehand revealed:
“That is … the origin story of younger Megatron and younger Optimus. If you recognize the origin, they began as buddies, and over time issues devolved for them they usually ended up on two sides. So we’re telling the younger Optimus and the younger Megatron story. We actually are telling the origin story of all Transformers, each what they had been originally of it, to how they develop, to how they develop aside.”
This would be the first of what Di Bonaventura calls a “pure trilogy,” and it’s going to discover “Cybertron in a method you have by no means seen it, that nobody’s ever seen it earlier than.”
There’s loads to be enthusiastic about with this film! It is a story I’m enthusiastic about seeing dropped at life! The movie is being directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) from a script he wrote with Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.
Transformers One is scheduled to hit theaters on September 13, 2024. I’m enthusiastic about this film and I’ve excessive hopes for it.
