'Transformers One' Pax A Punch, Rolls Out First Trailer Following Peek At CinemaCon
The robots learning to disguise head to theaters on September 20
Cybertron in the sky and more than meets the eye that’s Transformers. Paramount has released the first trailer for Transformers One, the first fully animated film for the Hasbro franchise since the television movie Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising, and first theatrical since 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie.
Every hero has a genesis, but every Transformer, whether Autobot or Decepticon, has an origin. The footage that Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry introduced at CinemaCon just a week ago (and for the record there are other CinemaCon things I’d still like to get to) went as such: Young Optimus Prime, voiced by Hemsworth and then known as Orion Pax, Megatron, voiced by Tyree Henry and who went by D-16, and their friends, starting out as simple worker bots who are “proven worthy” and bestowed the transforming powers that would come to characterize them. It takes some time getting used to them. Some very awkward time. Aboard a cargo train they see Cybertron’s surface for the first time. A lot of that is here in the regular trailer, set to The Rolling Stones’s “Start Me Up”. It comes nearly a year after the full voice cast, also featuring Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, was announced as part of that CinemaCon presentation. The film’s villain will be a mysterious plant-like being on the planet.
The official synopsis reads it’s “The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever”. Josh Cooley, director of Toy Story 4 and Pixar vet dating back to The Incredibles, is directing the film, with a screenplay by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Steven Spielberg is executive producing with the late Brian Goldner, as well as Brian Oliver, Bradley J. Fischer and Valerii An. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy, Mark Vahradian, Aaron Dem, and director of the first five live action films, Michael Bay all produce.
Also during CinemaCon, it was confirmed that the live action franchise, whose current phase began with 2018’s Bumblebee, will next have a crossover with G.I. Joe, as the end of Rise of the Beasts teased. Transformers One will now open on September 20, 2024 instead of September 13. This allows for IMAX occupation, but now opens up against another animated robot movie, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot. The one week delay was announced with one for the animated Avatar: The Last Airbender film currently working under the title Aang: The Last Airbender where it has moved from October 10, 2025 to January 20, 2026. Watch the Transformers One trailer below.
The '80s movie had an all-star voice actor cast, and so does this one. Some things stay consistent.
Finally- back in the film genre that suits them best.