Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

EoinMcLovin

https://youtu.be/o7Z8ORJOZ7M

Release date is June 9th 2023

Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback star in the upcoming action film from director Steven Caple Jr., who previously directed “Creed II.” Ramos plays Noah, an ex-military electronics expert who lives with and supports his family in Brooklyn, while Fishback plays Elena, an artifact researcher at a museum. Peter Cullen, who has lent his voice to Autobots leader Optimus Prime throughout the franchise’s run, will reprise his role as the film centers on Optimus in 1990s Brooklyn and is inspired by the franchise’s “Beast Wars” storyline.

The trailer introduces Optimus Primal, the leader of the Maximals who’s voiced by Ron Perlman and can transform into a gorilla. The two Optimuses meet, and Primal warns Prime of a brand new threat to their world. “Let them come,” Optimus Prime says, over footage of a heavy-metal battle pitting robots against robots. Additional cast members include Pete Davidson as Mirage, an Autobat who can transform into a Porsche; Sebastian Maniscalco as Wheeljack, who can become a Volkswagen bus; Michelle Yeoh as Airazor, a Maximal who can turn into a falcon; and Grey Griffin as Arcee, an Autobot who can transform into a Ducati 916 motorcycle. The movie also features the appropriately named Rhinox and Cheetor, plus the Terrorcons Scourge, Nightbird and Battletrap.

“Rise of the Beasts” is a follow-up to 2018’s “Bumblebee,” which starred Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena. That prequel film, centered on the lovable yellow Autobot, served as a reboot for the “Transformers” franchise, whose five previous movies were helmed by director Michael Bay. Following the success of “Bumblebee,” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura noted that the franchise would undergo a change in tone and style to help separate them from the first five Bay films. “Rise of the Beasts” also serves as the first of a planned trilogy, with two more sequels in early development.

Cotts72

Trailer looks great,seemingly a sequel to bumblebee which took the franchise in the right direction...really excited for this

pixelburp

Bumblebee was surprisingly enjoyable, though at that stage my expectations for Transformers movies had plummeted so drastically merely being competent was an improvement.

Was never big into the Beast Wars stuff so not excited for the characters TBH. The rest leaves a bizarre feeling in that the action doesn't look like someone tossed car parts into a tumble drier.

p to the e

*low grumbly voiceover - "All of the previous dozen films, have been leading up to this one"

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119947622#Comment_119947622

I adored Beast Wars growing up. I was a little old for G1. They look out of place here. It feels like a crossover nobody asked for. It also makes no sense that they turn into animals.

I've not seen Bumblebee though. Maybe it'll be decent.

Bacchus

I've long lost interest in the Transformers movie. The first was just amazing to see. It had it's flaws with the shaky cam action, but otherwise it was so cool to see the Transformers on screen. There was an unbelievably sharp decline in quality in the sequels, and the Bay-ification design of the Transformers went from bad to worse. I stopped watching after the 3rd one. If ever there was ever a series in a need of a hard reboot it's this one. Pity this is connected to the existing movies because the LOOK of the Transformers is perfection.

Homelander

The last one in the main franchise, Last Knight, was so bad I had to switch it off after about 30 minutes. I've found most of them to at least be watchable but that one was just terrible and nonsensical.

Bumblebee was pretty good though. Easily the best one since the original Transformers in 2007 or whenever that was.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119959791#Comment_119959791

That was when I decided I was done with seeing these things in the cinema. Last Knight is one of the worst things I've ever sat through.

Cotts72

I think they can still reboot it using this current format considering it's before the previous movies,the end credits could continue to setup the quintessons as being behind the scenes all along leading to a final trilogy heading back to cybertron to take them on along with Unicron as a finale

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119958441#Comment_119958441

Bumblebee was a pretty stripped-down and brazen mashing of ET meets Herbie meets Pete's Dragon. Very enjoyable, and TBH, very disposable given I had completely forgot it existed til this trailer came along, but by a distance the best live action Transformers movie.

FX were also much more visually cohesive and sensible.

yourdeadwright

wait what, isn't the idea of Transformer that they hide by being cars & planes and things,

Why the hell are the beasts ?

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119974892#Comment_119974892

Because TOYS.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119974892#Comment_119974892

In the original series, they went to prehistoric earth and had to adopt animal forms to protect themselves from the ubiquitously high levels of energon radiation (that seems logical). In this, it's probably a gimmick for trailers. And toys, as Pixelburp said.

EoinMcLovin

https://youtu.be/rRpZ3WMGAME

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EoinMcLovin

New trailer

https://youtu.be/xYbt0uLuGXY

Cotts72

Looks very promising,that Unicron reveal came out of no where !

Slydice

No voice for Unicron so I got a bit iffy on it

silverharp

3 hours 40min, I wish my kids were younger I'd go just to get a decent nap

nix

3hrs and 40mins????????? WTF!!!! Thats insane for this kind of movie, id be bleeding from my eyes at the end of the cgi rollercoaster, that is if i dont fall asleep...

What were they thinking? was it meant to be two movies and they just said **** it?

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120534131#Comment_120534131

The first Transformers was 2.5 hours. It was about an hour until you first saw a transformer. It sounds like they are going a similar route with too many human characters, and filler story which is not what people are going to the cinema to watch a movie called Transformers for.

johnny_ultimate

LOL it’s absolutely not going to be 3 hours and 40 mins long. That’s just someone editing IMDB in the absence of an official running time.

silverharp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120534531#Comment_120534531

i just googled it, and there is everything from 100min to 2 hours, you would think for cinema planning it would have been known months ago

Slydice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120529509#Comment_120529509

Rewatched the trailer and there's a voice talking about everything being consumed so now I'm thinking that might well have been Unicron.

LambshankRedemption

Ive only seen the first 3 TF movies, but IMO they never got the transformation right in any of those movies. As a previous poster said, it looked like car parts in a tumble dryer. I was expecting, or just wanted to see, the slow-ish transformation from an every day utility ttruck or car, into a robot. Less like someone doing a rubiks cube and more like someone assembling a rifle.

So, how they are going to make a realistic looking gorilla turn into a robotis-looking robot aludes me.

Potential-Monke

The human element has always been the worst part of the Transformers films. They just can't get it right, mainly because they focus on the humans, instead of the Transformers. The intro to Bumblebee was just fantastic as really shows that they can do a Cybertron film, no humans needed. This looks like it's doing the human side too much again. Like Pacific Rim, I didn't come to see a heart wrenching story of humanity. I want to see giant fricken robots rocket punch other giant robots (or kaiju). Why do they have to put a human aspect into everything. Are audiences still too thick to enjoy something that they can't relate to?

I'll still watch it, sometimes the action scenes can be enough to tie me through it. But I'm not hopeful.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120552458#Comment_120552458

Totally agree. TF1 is the one I know best because my ex GF had it on DVD, and we didn't have cable.

There was Sam and his parents, Megan Fox, the 3 sig intel people, the Special Ops guys, and the annoying Sector 7 guy. You got introduced to nearly all of them before you even saw a Transformer.

LambshankRedemption

Just saw the new trailor and Im a lot more intrigued and excited for this movie.

Spoiler: There is only one human in the trailor.

sioda

Enjoyed that tbh pretty obvious story but built nicely good set pieces and enjoyed the different groups of transformers.

Rare to be surprised by a end scene but have to give it to this one didn't see it coming at all.

santana75

I can't believe I'm saying this but this was actually quite good. Way better than I expected anyway. The plot is the usual nonsense but they've managed to do it all in a very enjoyable way. I thought bumblebee was also a very enjoyable movie and this is at least on par with that

Agent Coulson

A heads up to anyone who wants to watch the first 5 they are on All4 streaming now and Bumblebee will be up on it next week

AMKC

So I decided to go see this today and is was actually quite good. It was funny , had lovely scenery and cool new robots. What's not to like. It was a thousand times better than Fast X and if was much more enjoyable than the overrated Thd Flash film too.

flasher0030

I've only watched the very first transformers film and Bumblebee. Is there anything that I will be missing out when watching Rise, by not having seen the remainder films. I presume it is not a pure stand-alone movie but presumably there are not too many connections to the other films.

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120837825#Comment_120837825

It’s a prequel to the first 5 movies and a sequel to Bumblebee and also works as a standalone with one quick mention from the Bumblebee film and a funny enough Easter egg Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch reference.