Paramount’s live-action Transformers movies have at all times made its alien robots seem to be they have been born prepared for battle and realizing learn how to navigate the world, however the first trailer for director Josh Cooley’s Transformers One animated prequel reveals that to be something however the case.
Set within the distant previous on the Cybertronian homeworld, Transformers One tells the story of how Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 / Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry) went from being finest buddies to mortal enemies quickly after discovering their powers to show into numerous sorts of autos.
Cybertron’s floor appears to be a mysterious, harmful place the place younger transformers are forbidden to go within the new trailer, however Orion and D-16 have rather more freedom down beneath the planet’s crust the place they and different younger bots who can’t but shift into alt-forms are supposed to be working to contribute to their society. Although they’re supposed to maintain busy with their assigned duties, Orion, D-16, and different Cybertronians like Elita-1 (Scarlett Johansson) and B-127 / Bumblebee (Keegan-Michael Key) discover time to sneak off and get into the sorts of bother you’d count on teenagers to gravitate in the direction of.
“Bother” right here means venturing as much as the forbidden floor the place transformers appear shocked to come across mechanized animals and what appears to be natural vegetation. However they’re much more shocked when an encounter with Alpha Trion (Laurence Fishburne) leaves them modified and eventually in a position to refashion their our bodies into autos that don’t completely appear alien in design. Goofy jokes have at all times been a part of Paramount’s live-action Transformers motion pictures, however the vibe in One’s trailer makes it abundantly clear that it’s a film for youths the studio needs to show into new followers.
There’s one thing decidedly Energy Rangers-y about the entire thing that makes it really feel just like the kind of Transformers mission that is perhaps divisive amongst older followers of the franchise. However when the film hits theaters on September twentieth, it kinda looks like everybody’s going to be on the identical web page about how unsettling the robots’ very human lips, noses, and tooth are.