Paramount Pictures is going big for the launch of the trailer for its upcoming animated film, Transformers One. They got Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry to announce that the trailer will debut on Thursday, April 18th, in space!
This movie tells the “origin story of how the most iconic characters in the Transformers universe, Orion Pax and D-16, went from brothers-in-arms to become sworn enemies, Optimus Prime and Megatron.”
The trailer launch kicks off at 6am PT with a live-streamed countdown showing the journey into space.
After one hour, the craft will reach its peak at 125,000 feet above the Earth, revealing the trailer with a custom introduction video from Hemsworth and Henry.
The event will be streamed from @TransformersMovie social accounts, The Paramount Pictures YouTube channel and co-streamed by Chris Hemsworth on Instagram.
I’m curious to see what fans think of the trailer. I got to see some footage from the film already at CinemaCon, and it was not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting something more, well…. awesome. You can watch our reaction video here.
The movie looks more like an animated comedy for kids. “This is … the origin story of young Megatron and young Optimus. If you know the origin, they started as friends, and over time things devolved for them and they ended up on two sides.
“So we’re telling the young Optimus and the young Megatron story. We really are telling the origin story of all Transformers, both what they were at the beginning of it, to how they grow, to how they grow apart.”
This will be the first of what Di Bonaventura calls a “natural trilogy,” and it’s going to explore “Cybertron in a way you’ve never seen it, that no one’s ever seen it before.”
The movie stars Scarlett Johansson as Elita, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion.
The film is being directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) from a script he wrote with Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.
The movie will be released on September 13, 2024.