Country: United States
Language: English

About the film:

The first ever fully computer-generated animated Transformers movie, and the first fully animated Transformers movie since 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie.

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Now known as sworn enemies, Optimus and Megatron were once Orion Pax and D-16, friends who were bonded like brothers. Discover how they changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

Chris Hemsworth stars as Orion Pax/Optimus Prime alongside Brian Tyree Henry as D-16/Megatron and Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1. Also starring are Keegan-Michael Key as B-127/Bumblebee, Steve Buscemi as Starscream, Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, and Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime.

“a love letter to ‘Transformers’ of old and to animation in general”

—Drew Taylor, TheWrap

Images courtesy of Paramount Pictures

About the filmmaker:

Joshua Cooley is an American filmmaker, storyboard artist, and voice actor. Cooley has worked extensively with Disney Pixar, voicing beloved characters like Jangles from Inside Out (2015) and Omega from Up (2009), as well as writing the screenplay for Inside Out (2015) and the story for Toy Story 4 (2019). He has worked in the animation department as a story artist on films like Ratatouille (2007), Up (2009), The Garfield Movie (2024), and Inside Out 2 (2024). He also acted as a story supervisor on Cars 2 (2011) and Inside Out (2015). Cooley made his directorial debut with Toy Story 4 (2019), which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2020 Academy Awards. His latest film, Transformers One (2024), is the first Transformers film to be fully computer-generated animated and to explore to origins of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s legendary rivalry.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media