Chris Hemsworth To Lead Paramount’s Animated ‘Transformers’ Prequel Movie

By Shubhendu Vatsa - News Published: 3 May 2023, Last Updated: 13 Oct 2023

Transformers One will see The Robots in Disguise get the animation treatment once again, featuring a star-studded voice cast.

At this year’s CinemaCon, Paramount revealed the stellar lineup for its upcoming Transformers animated film which is headlined by the MCU’s God of Thunder, Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry and Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Josh Cooley, whose previous credits include Toy Story 4, Transformers One is an animated prequel movie that’s meant to act as an origin story, delving into how the epic feud between the Autobots and the Decepticons started.

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Chris Hemsworth will be lending his voice to a young Optimus Prime, Henry is all set to voice young Megatron while Scarlett Johansson has been cast as Elita. Besides these three, the film will feature Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion.

Set on the Transformers’ home planet of Cybertron, the upcoming animated movie is meant to serve as an origin tale that explores the previously unseen side of some of our favourite characters, mainly centring around Optimus Prime and Megatron’s friendship. Transformers One will show us how the two started off as battle buddies but later went on to become enemies, focusing on how the war for the AllSpark began.

While announcing the cast at CinemaCon, Ramsey Naito, president of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation remarked, “I’m so excited and proud to be working with Hasbro and eOne to bring the first animated Transformers movie to theatres for a never-before-told story.

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Shedding some light on the project and what fans can expect from the movie, veteran Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura previously told Collider, “You’re going to see a lot of the origins of the society, and what broke it apart. The analogy for me is a bit like Krypton when you saw the planet falling apart, and all that. We’re not there for a short time, we’re there the entire time of the movie, we’re on Cybertron, but the challenge of that, if you know the lore, they begin to question the hierarchy of how their society has gotten stratified, and how the common man doesn’t have the voice, entirely, that they want to have.”

Bonaventura further added, “We’re following very true to the origin story of it, and so it’s really fun, too, because I’ve gotten to see some of it—it’s not fully executed by any stretch of the imagination, but hearing Optimus and Megatron not as who we know them as, which we see their maturation in this experience. So, in a sense, you’re hearing a different character because you’re hearing them before they have matured.”

Steven Spielberg will be on executive producing duties and will be joined by Brian Goldner, Brian Oliver, Bradley J. Fischer and Valerii An. The film’s script has been penned by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. It’s currently unclear how far along the project is and there are currently no trailers or first-look posters for the movie. Transformers One is slated to hit theatres on July 19, 2024.

Shubhendu Vatsa

Shubhendu Vatsa is an experienced reporter specialising in video game, eSports and technology coverage. A BTech IT graduate, Shubhendu has previously written for entertainment-based publications such as GiveMeSport, Touch, Tap, Play, Attack of the Fanboy, EssentiallySports, Twinfinite and The Load Out.

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