Paramount Pictures is transforming everyone’s Thursday into a Hype Train by dropping a Transformers: Rise of the Beasts trailer. Inspired by the Beast Wars line of Transformers toys, the plot features giant robots that turn into mechanical animals instead of vehicles. Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II, The Land) directs from a screenplay by Joby Harold, Darnell Metayer, and Josh Peters. The upcoming film includes an ’80s backdrop and looks to follow the Bumblebee timeline.
In the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts teaser trailer, Optimus Prime encounters Optimus Primal in a forest. After the duo exchange greetings, Primal informs Prime that a new threat is coming, and there are dark times ahead for the people of Earth. As the footage continues, we see Transformers of all types going to war, the inventive new tech on display, and robot-on-robot action that won’t be a black mark on your Google search history.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stars Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime, Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal, Michelle Yeoh as Maximal Air Razor, and Pete Davidson as the Autobot Mirage, with Dominique Fishback playing Elena, and Anthony Ramos starring as Noah. The Transformers in this film will be robot tribes known as the Maximals and the Terrorcons, which are a different breed from the Autobots and Decepticons. However, they also find themselves warring on planet Earth.
The previous Transformers movie, Bumblebee, was released in 2018. Starring Marvel’s Hailee Steinfeld, the film was a soft reboot of the robots in disguise franchise. While Bumblebee failed to do donuts around the box office ($468M worldwide), Transformer fans embraced the movie’s ’80s aesthetic and classic look for the robots. What do you think about Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts trailer? Is it time for the Transformers to make a comeback? Let us know in the comments.
You can check out stills from the trailer and key art for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts below: