It’s perfect casting, and it may be his best work ever. The role calls for Davidson to showcase his irreverent, playful persona. One of the most enjoyable parts of “Rise of the Beasts” is the back-and-forth between Ramos and Pete Davidson as the voice of Mirage, the wisecracking sports car. They both find themselves flung into the hunt for the all-important Transwarp Key-Noah when he tries to steal a Porsche that turns out to be an Autobot, Elena when she studies a new sculpture that’s come into the lab with mysterious symbols on it. These are both young people of color being repeatedly underestimated and marginalized by the predominately white people in charge, which provides more context and social criticism than we usually see in these movies. At the same time, at a museum on Ellis Island, Fishback’s Elena is fighting to prove herself as an artifacts expert who’s knowledgeable beyond her years. This includes his adorable younger brother, Kris ( Dean Scott Vazquez), who’s suffering from a chronic illness. Whatever it is, it takes place in a grungy, pre-Giuliani New York City where Ramos’ Noah Diaz is a former military electronics expert looking for work to support his family. This isn’t exactly a sequel to “Bumblebee,” but it does begin soon afterward in 1994 and before the events of the first “ Transformers.” So it’s sort of a prequel and sort of a reboot. The screenplay, credited to five people, gives the likable Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback the opportunity to create characters we might even care about.Īnd yes, it does sound inherently contradictory to say: “I would like more humanity in my movie about otherworldly beings pretending to be cars and trucks.” But that’s what makes “Rise of the Beasts,” and Travis Knight’s ‘80s-set “Bumblebee” stand out. That’s a rarity in this series, known more for the bland types and groan-inducing banter of the Bay movies. They’re all in pursuit of the same ancient, McGuffiny doohickey which is super powerful and can cause massive damage.īut what makes “Rise of the Beasts” palatable for everyone else is the fact that it demonstrates surprising care with the human beings trapped in the midst of this epic battle between good and evil. Besides the Autobots-led as always by Optimus Prime and voiced by Peter Cullen with his signature gravitas-“Rise of the Beasts” also features Maximals from the “Transformers: Beast Wars” TV series and various intergalactic villains doing the bidding of the planet-gobbling Unicron ( Colman Domingo). Transformers One hits movie theaters on July 19, 2024.Longtime fans will probably revel in the childhood nostalgia of seeing these beloved characters come to life once again. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, who co-wrote Ant-Man and the Wasp and Hulu’s No Exit, penned the script. Josh Cooley, the former Pixar artist and screenwriter who directed Toy Story 4, is helming Transformers One. Joining Hemsworth and Henry in the animated film’s cast are Scarlett Johansson as Elita (aka Elita One, Optimus’ Autobot leader stand-in while he was away from Cybertron for a few million years) Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, the leader of the Autobots before Optimus took over and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, one of the oldest, wisest Transformers. The story of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s youth was previously explored in comic publisher IDW’s Transformers series (pictured above), but the animated feature film will likely take its own approach to young Optimus, back when he was known as Orion Pax. Transformers One will also star Brian Tyree Henry ( Atlanta, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as young Megatron in a story about how the two most famous Transformers “went from brothers-in-arms to sworn enemies,” Paramount said. Chris Hemsworth ( Thor) will voice a young and, one can only assume, hunky Optimus Prime for Transformers One, a new animated movie that promises the origin story of the leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, Paramount Animation announced Thursday. While actor Peter Cullen has been the iconic, commanding voice of Optimus Prime for nearly 40 years, a different actor is stepping into the tires of the Autobot for a new Transformers movie.
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