![]() ![]() Rise of the Beasts will tide fans over in the meantime as it rolls out into theaters on June 9. Transformers One is currently slated for September 14, 2024. Toy Story 4 directer Josh Cooley helms the film with a script penned by Andrew Barrer, Steve Desmond, and Gabriel Ferrari. Also aboard the film are Jon Hamm and Laurence Fishburne who play former Autobot leader Sentinel Prime and one of the franchise's oldest bots in Alpha Trion respectively. Johansson plays Elita in the film while Keegan Michael Key will voice the fan-favorite Bumblebee. Directly opposite Hemsworth will be recent Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry as his nemesis Megatron. Like Rise of the Beasts, Transformers: One includes a star-studded roster already. But Scarlett is amazing, and it's just coming alive in a way that it's really rewarding, and we had confidence in our director, and all he's doing is giving us more and more." So it's that transition, and Chris's voice has a timbre that… it’s logical that Peter Cullen would take over that voice, if you would, which is really great, the fans are gonna really feel great. "Also, it's the imagination of our artists and our director, and one of the great things is, as you actually put the voices to the characters– When we first listen to Chris Hemsworth's voice, you're like, 'God, is he gonna be a good Optimus!' Obviously, he starts as Orion Pax and you don't become Optimus for a while, so he's not playing, for most of the movie, what we think of as Optimus, Peter Cullen. It is a very fresh and different look, I would say different than any animated movie you've seen, which is a high bar to set, but ILM is capable of delivering it." It's one of those things that like, it just keeps progressing in the right direction, you know? You never know, sometimes when you're making a movie, you're, like, 'Well, I think it's working.' Everything I'm seeing is working and it's exceeding my sense of what it was gonna be, so I'm really excited about it. I can't tell you how excited I'm getting about it. While di Bonaventura, unfortunately, couldn't promise footage any time soon, he expressed just how smoothly everything was progressing and praised ILM for creating something special with them: Since he last sat down with Weintraub, he's only grown more in love with the work they're doing on Transformers: One. ![]() Collider previously learned from di Bonaventura that Industrial Light and Magic, the industry giant better known for its state-of-the-art special effects technology used in the Star Wars franchise and MCU films among other projects, is taking another crack at animating after creating 2011's Rango. The animation itself is very promising too. Transformers: One looks to set the stage for a natural trilogy too as di Bonaventura says, promising a sweeping story about the fall of Cybertron and the societal strife that the bots are swept into. Before they matured into two leaders on the opposite sides of a conflict, they were fellow Cybertronians and far different from the characters they are in the cartoons or films. di Bonaventura previously detailed the plot of the film to Collider, explaining that it would act as the beginning of the Transformers saga as fans know it, taking place on Cybertron with a young Optimus and Megatron who are still friends. Transformers: One will feature something fans haven't gotten the chance to see on screen before - the origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron's feud. He dove into why it'll be such a special animated project and how the cast will elevate the film. The animated film won't be out for a while especially after a recent delay kicked it back to a September 2024 release, but the veteran Transformers producer couldn't help but hype it up in a new interview with Collider's Steven Weintraub. Although Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will only just grace theaters this week, Lorenzo di Bonaventura is already getting excited about the next major installment coming for the giant robot franchise - Transformers One. ![]()
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