Chris Hemsworth is Optimus Prime in new Transformers origin story film

Whereas actor Peter Cullen has been the enduring, commanding voice of Optimus Prime for practically 40 years, a distinct actor is moving into the tires of the Autobot for a brand new Transformers film. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) will voice a younger and, one can solely assume, hunky Optimus Prime for Transformers One, a brand new animated film that guarantees the origin story of the leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, Paramount Animation introduced Thursday.

Transformers One can even star Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) as younger Megatron in a narrative about how the 2 most well-known Transformers “went from brothers-in-arms to sworn enemies,” Paramount stated. The story of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s youth was beforehand explored in comedian writer IDW’s Transformers collection (pictured above), however the animated characteristic movie will doubtless take its personal strategy to younger Optimus, again when he was referred to as Orion Pax.

Becoming a member of Hemsworth and Henry within the animated movie’s forged are Scarlett Johansson as Elita (aka Elita One, Optimus’ Autobot chief stand-in whereas he was away from Cybertron for a couple of million years); Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee; Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, the chief of the Autobots earlier than Optimus took over; and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, one of many oldest, wisest Transformers.

Josh Cooley, the previous Pixar artist and screenwriter who directed Toy Story 4, is helming Transformers One. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, who co-wrote Ant-Man and the Wasp and Hulu’s No Exit, penned the script.

Transformers One hits film theaters on July 19, 2024.