Beasts rise in the first trailer for Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
The next Transformers movie will be in theaters in June
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We regret to inform you that The Transformers is back, but much like with 2018’s Bumblebee, it actually seems kind of cool when it’s not being handled by a filmmaker with a huge ego who actively dislikes the property. This new movie—set in the ‘90s and titled Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts—is directed by Steven Caple Jr. from Creed II, and it will introduce a new take on the animal Transformers from the Beast Wars animated series.
This first trailer shows off Ron Perlman’s robo-gorilla Optimus Primal (he’s like Optimus Prime but primal) and a bit of Michelle Yeoh’s robo-bird Airazor, but it also knows that the one robot we all want to see is Optimus Prime himself (voiced by Peter Cullen, as he always should be)—with Caple saying last year when the film was announced that Optimus would be Rise Of The Beasts’ “robot lead.” The human lead, then, is Anthony Ramos, playing somebody named Noah who strikes up a very Bumblebee-esque friendship with a Cybertronian named Mirage (he doesn’t say anything in this trailer, but he’s voiced by Pete Davidson).
The movie also stars Dominique Fishback, Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, and John DiMaggio (we were going to make a joke about Bender canonically being a Transformer now, but he’s done various voices in a ton of these movies already). Speaking of the other movies, Rise Of The Beasts is supposedly going to quietly sidestep them without explicitly infringing on the established mythology, but we can’t imagine anyone really caring about that. At some point after this, the Autobots go back into space and leave Bumblebee alone on Earth so the other movies can happen, and while Bee might not say “I’m friends with Hailee Steinfeld,” he probably won’t say “I’ve never met Hailee Steinfeld.” Maybe Star Wars should try an approach like that? It makes things a lot easier.
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts will be in theaters on June 9, 2023.
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“Of all the threats from both your past and future, you’ve never faced anything like this”Is it a group of evil transforming robots? ‘Cause I think they have, quite a few times actually
Turns out it’s a bunch of evil clowns.
So, clowns?
Technically, they haven’t faced anything from their future yet, anyway, so that part of the statement seems kinda unnecessary…
Obligatory Trukk not Munkyalthough this doesn’t look bad,
I forgot this movie was coming and I am so hype for it. Beast Wars was one of my favorite shows of childhood.
The real question:
I still love that they get Peter Cullen back for these movies, which is why I am disappointed that’s not Garry Chaulk as Optimus Primal. Maybe he wasn’t interested, sure. But the producers have an ethical obligation to keep adding zeroes to their offer until he is interested.
cullen as prime is still surprising, honestly. obviously most of the casting is “random celebrity who will do like four lines and then have them heavily processed”
disappointed that’s not Garry Chaulk as Optimus Primal.On the one hand, I can understand and sympathize with that take.On the other hand, Ron Perlman.
True. If you’re going to recast the role, I can’t think of a better choice.
David Sobolov who was Depth Charge and Teletraan 1 in Beast Wars is in the movie as Rhinox and Battletrap. He’s the only Beast Wars alumni though, and he has been in a lot of Transformers media including Blitzwing in Bumblebee.
Three questions:What’s the advantage of a robot gorilla turning into a robot person?Has Arcee been in any live-action movies before?If you had to live in a world where Peter Cullen voices Optimus Prime or Kevin Conroy voices Batman, but could only pick one, which do you choose? I am surprised that halfway through typing that, I actually decided I’d pick Cullen’s Prime.
Yes, she was in Bumblebee’s opening scene and a very different Arcee showed up briefly in 2009’s Revenge of the Fallen.
Conroy as Batman, though admittedly that’s mainly because I care about Batman way more than I care about Transformers. If the playing field were more level, Cullen would have a shot.
Optimus Primal always felt like such a lazy transformer design. A 4 limbed biped turns into — a 4 limbed biped. Exciting. It’s practically a costume change. Heck, get me a gorilla suit and I can “transform” too, just with more steps.But to answer your question, I read in another post that the transformers turned into animals in Beast Wars because prehistoric energon levels were too volatile for robots, so they needed to have biological skin for… protection?
For the original Primal toy, it meant that Hasbro and Takara loaded him with weapons and play features to make up for the simple transformation despite being an Ultra size class toys. He had a hidden flail in his right hand, hidden spring-loaded missile launchers in his left hand that fired two missiles, another double missile launcher and swords in his back plus storage for the arm missiles, the swords can be combined into one, and he has a lever-activated chess beating action that became sword-swinging action in robot mode.The story just justified the beast modes as radiation shielding. The only advantage to Primal transforming is gaining weapons and a jetpack.
Wait, they have an Optimus Prime that actually looks like Optimus Prime and not a random incoherent mess of mechanical parts? I might have to start paying attention again.
Michael bay was treating them as alien robots who have the ability to look like cars. I don’t think the designs of the transformers were really that bad in the movies
The Bay Optimus Prime is considered iconic now though. It might not be in movies after this, but they will definitely make new toys and merch of it, several of them are in fact being readied for sale now.
Those text cards at the start of the trailer read like they were spat out by a random word generator.
Look, I realize they have to be larger to be as big as the car-bots like Optimus, but I kind of wish the Beasts all looked like animals. Not very good “robots in disguise” when they look like big metal animals.(and look, I watched Beast Wars back in the day, I know half the characters didn’t look like real animals by season 2, but they didn’t really have to interact with humans or fool anyone into thinking they weren’t robots)
All I see is a production company really bending over backwards to find ANY excuse to put a Transformers story on the big screen. So it’s Transformers for the sake of Transformers plot.
I wearily liked maybe three of the Bayformers movies a bit more on a second viewing, but none of that added up to good, and Optimus Prime still seems too much of a bloviating, violent idiot to be the character who’s otherwise supposed to be kids’-movie shorthand for “wise, esteemed leader”, but I suppose that’s where our stupid world has gone in these stupid times.
Nothing in this trailer looks like anything I haven’t seen at least six times before, but I do like the more straightforward ‘bot designs.
I mean part of the whole thing with optimus in the movies is that shit goes bad for him and he’s under stress like in the first two movies he fairly normal until he gets killed and then when he’s brought back thats when stuff starts to get real bad like his mentor betraying him and killing his friends. Like he gets tired of megatrons bullshit and just opts to kill him so he stops waging wars. Then in the 4th movie humans try to kill him and he just is tired and pissed since he’s always been on the humans side. Like it makes sense he gets jaded as the series goes on.