While actor Peter Cullen is the iconic commanding voice of Optimal For nearly 40 years, another actor is stepping on Autobot’s tires for a new Transformers movie. Chris Hemsworth (God of thunder) will voice a young and muscular Optimus Prime. transformer onea new animated film promising original stories about the leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, Paramount Animation announced on Thursday.
transformer one will also star Brian Tiree Henry (Atlanta, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as the young Megatron in a story about how the two most famous Transformers “went from brothers in arms to sworn enemies,” Paramount said. The youth story of Optimus Prime and Megatron has previously been explored in comic book publisher IDW’s Transformers series (pictured above), but the animated series will likely take its own approach to young Optimus , when he was known as Orion Pax.
Joining Hemsworth and Henry in the animated film’s cast is Scarlett Johansson as Elita (aka Elita One, Optimus’ Autobot leader when he’s been away from Cybertron for several million years); Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee; Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, leader of the Autobots before Optimus took over; and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, one of the oldest, wisest Transformers.
Josh Cooley, former Pixar artist and screenwriter who directed Toy Story 4driving transformer one. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, co-authors Ant-Man and the Wasp and Hulu No way outwrote the script.
transformer one hits theaters on July 19, 2024.
