Paramount Reveals ‘Transformers One’ Trailer, Shifts Launch Date Again One Week
Paramount Animation has revealed the trailer for Transformers One, the primary fully-animated movie within the Transformers franchise since 1986’s The Transformers: The Film, launched within the early days of the Hasbro toy line.
Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley is helming the brand new pic from a script by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. It’s touted as an origin story recounting how Orion Pax and D-16 went from brothers-in-arms to turning into the sworn enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron.
The trailer reveals off an uncompromising sci-fi type that isn’t typically seen in animation coupled with a snarky comedic tone that’ll undoubtedly really feel acquainted to function animation viewers. It stays to be seen whether or not this mixture of components can draw crowds again to the franchise, which has seen diminishing international field workplace returns since peaking with the 2011 launch Transformers: Darkish of the Moon.
Paramount has pushed again the discharge of the movie one week to September 20, presumably to keep away from head-to-head competitors with Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel whereas making certain sufficient premium large-format screens for the launch.
Industrial Gentle & Magic is dealing with the animation manufacturing. Producers are Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto & Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, and Aaron Dem. Government producers are Steven Spielberg, Zev Foreman, Olivier Dumont, Brian Oliver, B.J. Farmer, and Matt Quigg.
Key forged are Chris Hemsworth (Orion Pax), Brian Tyree Henry (D-16), Scarlett Johansson (Elita-1), Keegan-Michael Key (B-127), Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.
Amid’s Take: It’s refreshing to see an animated function that isn’t making an attempt to be all issues to all folks. As somebody who hasn’t watched Transformers because the Nineteen Eighties, there was nothing that an outsider like myself may grasp onto on this trailer or which made me remotely excited by seeing any extra of it (although I’ll nonetheless undoubtedly go to see it). And that’s completely positive.
I’m completely satisfied to simply accept that this movie isn’t meant for me – and in reality, I’d argue that there’s room within the animation market for extra style titles that concentrate on area of interest audiences, identical to live-action. All that issues with Transformers One is whether or not the people who find themselves invested within the toy franchise’s lore and mythology need to see it. The Transformers market has confirmed vital previously with a number of movies within the franchise having grossed over $1 billion worldwide, and if those self same folks end up for this movie, Paramount can have loads to rejoice.