While this summer’s box office revenue Transformers: Rise of the Monsters doesn’t compare to the Michael Bay era culmination, it’s still a big enough hit that fans of disguised robots should expect another sequel in the future (and one with a line of twisted cross toys). In reality, 8 . Transformer Not even the only TF movie Paramount Pictures has in the works: Announced in April, the studio will release the animated feature transformer one hits theaters in 2024. Longtime Transformers series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told Polygon the movie is huge — perhaps the biggest Transformers story his team has brought to the screen.
“You can’t make this movie real,” he said, during a press tour for Transformers: Rise of the Monsters‘digital release. “If we did it in live-action, it would cost twice what we would normally spend on a big Transformers movie. In cartoons, we are not only capable but also inferior to a Transformers movie. We can do everything in animation… I mean, imagine you’re on Cybertron? What does Cybertron actually look like? We have an opportunity to determine that.”
transformer one Go back in time to the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons and rock the cast: Chris Hemsworth has been cast to voice a young character. Optimalreplaces the resilient series Peter Cullen, while recently Atlanta star and Oscar nominee Bryan Tyree Henry replaces Frank Welker as Megatron. The cast also includes Scarlett Johansson as Elita One, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion. And yes, it’s all set up on Cybertron.
transformer one marks the first fully animated feature film by the artists at Industrial Light & Magic since 2011 Rango (although the company also worked on George Lucas’ fairy tale strange magicbut uh let’s focus Rango). Di Bonaventura, who rightly foretold Rango is “quite spectacular” in this writer’s opinion, stating that movies like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and coming by Paramount Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem may have opened the door to a fully animated Transformers movie, but the only stylistic hit is on transformer oneILM, directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) and the entire team is “doing our own unique version”. But to serve what?
“I always wanted to do the origin story of the friendship of Megatron and Optimus, who were then Orion Pax and D-16,” said di Bonaventura with genuine amusement. “There is something very Biblical about it, very Cain and Abel, in many respects. But it’s more subtle in a way because it’s about power and how individual and personal use of power is.”
transformer one is currently scheduled to hit theaters on July 19, 2024.
