While actor Peter Cullen has been the iconic, commanding voice of Optimus Prime for nearly 40 years, another actor climbs into the Autobot’s tires for a new Transformers movie. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) will voice a young and, one can only assume, handsome Optimus Prime transformers oneParamount Animation announced Thursday a new animated film that promises the origin story of the leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons.
transformers one will also be Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as a young Megatron in a story about how the two most famous Transformers “went from brothers in arms to sworn enemies,” Paramount said. The story of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s youth was previously covered in comic book publisher IDW’s Transformers series (pictured above), but the animated feature will likely take its own approach to young Optimus, back when he was still known as Orion Pax.
Joining Hemsworth and Henry in the animated film’s cast are Scarlett Johansson as Elita (aka Elita One, Optimus’ Autobot leader who 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 and wisest Transformers.
Josh Cooley, former Pixar artist and screenwriter, directed toy story 4is Helming transformers one. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari who wrote together Ant Man and the Wasp and Hulus No Exitwrote the script.
transformers one hits theaters on July 19, 2024.
