TRANSFORMERS ONE producer speaks highly of Chris Hemsworth’s Optimus Prime voice

I’m actually much more excited about the upcoming animated one Transformers One movie than I am for any live-action Transformers project. There’s a lot of exciting potential and this thing could tell a great and epic story.

There are some big changes coming with this movie, and one of the biggest is that Chris Hemsworth will provide the voice of a younger version of Optimus Prime. Peter Cullen won’t reprise his role in this film, but in a recent interview with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, he shared that he’s excited for Hemsworth and praised his voice as Optimus Prime. Speaking to Collider, Di Bonaventura said:

“Plus, it’s the imagination of our artists and our director, and one of the great things is that you actually voiced the characters. When we first hear Chris Hemsworth’s voice, you’re like, ‘God, that’s going to be a good Optimus!’ Of course, he starts off as Orion Pax and you don’t become Optimus for a while, so he doesn’t play, for most of the movie, what we assume to be Optimus, Peter Cullen. So it’s that transition, and Chris’ voice has a timbre that… it makes sense for Peter Cullen to take over that voice, if you will, which is really cool, the fans are going to feel really great.

Di Bonaventura also said so Scarlett Johansson he’s “amazing” as the character Elita in the film. The rest of the cast includes Brian Tiree Henry as Megatron, Keegan-Michael Key like hornet, Jon Hamm such as Sentinel Prime, e Laurence Fishburne such as Alpha Trion.

Transformers One is a prequel film revolving around the origins of Cybertron and the story will center on a young Optimus Prime and Megatron who are finding their way. It was previously revealed:

“This is… the origin story of young Megatron and young Optimus. If you know the origin, they started out as friends, and over time things changed for them and ended on two fronts. So we’re telling the young Optimus and the young Megatron story. We’re really telling the origin story of all Transformers, both who they were in the beginning, and how they grow up, and how they go their separate ways.”

This will be the first in what Di Bonaventura calls a “natural trilogy” and will explore “Cybertron in a way you’ve never seen it, that no one has ever seen it before.”

There is a lot to be excited about with this film! This is a story I’m excited to see come to life! The film is directed by Josh Cooley (Story of the toy 4) from a script he wrote with Andrew Barra AND Gabriel Ferrari.

Transformers One will be released in theaters on September 13, 2024.