Paramount+ Seals 'Transformers One' Streaming Date
It’s happening so fast that by the time you read this it might already be out
Paramount+ dropped this news like Megatron dropped Orion Pax in the climax. The streamer has announced that Transformers One, the CG animated Transformers prequel film, will start streaming tomorrow, Friday November 15 in the United States and Canada. As is seemingly typical, arrivals in other international Paramount+ markets will be announced at a later date.
Having opened in theaters on September 20, Transformers One will have taken 56 days to arrive on Paramount+, exactly eight weeks. Arriving on a Friday means it’s basically the midpoint between the 53 days that Mean Girls and IF took and the 60 days that A Quiet Place: Day One took, the latter three landing on the equivalent previous or following Tuesday. Every major Paramount theatrical release has taken somewhere in this week long range of days after said release to land on the streamer.
Transformers One delves into the untold origin story of how best friends Orion Pax and D-16, voiced by Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry respectively, learn devastating truths of Cybertronian society that lead them down the diverging paths to becoming Optimus Prime and Megatron, the eventual warring leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee aka “Badassatron”, Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Steve Buscemi as Starscream. Widely acclaimed, the film unfortunately underperformed with a $128.8 million global box office. That’s a $59 million gross in the United States and Canada, and $69.8 million internationally.
The film was directed by Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley, and written by Eric Pearson and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, who worked from Barrer & Ferrari’s story. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto & Don Murphy, Mark Vahradian, Aaron Dem, and Michael Bay, who directed the first five live action films, produced alongside executive producers Steven Spielberg, Zev Foreman, Olivier Dumont, Bradley J. Fischer, B.J. Farmer and Matt Quigg.
Source: Deadline