![]() ![]() ![]() Di Bonaventura, who rightfully heralds Rango as “quite spectacular” in this writer’s opinion, says that films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and Paramount’s upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem may have opened the door for a fully animated Transformers movie, but the only stylistic throughline is that on Transformers One, ILM, director Josh Cooley ( Toy Story 4), and the entire team is “doing our own version of originality.” But in service of what? Transformers One marks the first fully animated feature film from the artists at Industrial Light & Magic since 2011’s Rango (though the company also worked on George Lucas’ fairytale curio Strange Magic, but uh let’s uh focus on Rango). Rounding out the cast are Scarlett Johansson as Elita One, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion. Transformers One winds back the clock on the war between Autobots and Decepticons and shakes up the casting: Chris Hemsworth has been cast as the voice of a young Optimus Prime, replacing series stalwart Peter Cullen, while recent Atlanta star and Oscar nominee Bryan Tyree Henry subs in for Frank Welker as voice Megatron. I mean, imagine being on Cybertron? What does Cybertron really look like? We get the opportunity to define that.” In animation, not only can we afford it, it’s less than a Transformers movie. “If we did it in live-action it would cost twice what we normally would spend on a big Transformers movie. “You could not make this movie live-action,” he says, while on the press tour for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ digital release. Longtime Transformers movie series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura tells Polygon says the movie is big - maybe the biggest Transformers story his team has brought to screen yet. In fact, Transformers 8 isn’t even the only TF movie Paramount Pictures has in the works: Announced in April, the studio will release the animated Transformers One in theaters in 2024. While the box-office haul of this summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts doesn’t compare to the highest highs of the Michael Bay era, it’s still a big enough hit that fans of the robots in disguise should expect another sequel in the future (and one with a toy line crossover twist). ![]()
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