The Force is strong with this news. The final act of Machinima/Hasbro Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy is ramping up its star power, with both Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Star Wars’ Mark Hamill joining the cast for the upcoming Transformers: Power of the Primes.
Mark Hamill will play the role of Megatronus, the first Decepticon, exiled from Cybertron after murdering one of the other original Thirteen Primes. He is no stranger to voice acting for he is loved by many for his iconic take on The Joker in 90s’ Batman: The Animated Series.
Megatronus will continue to play a large part in Power of the Primes, where he’ll be joined by Perlman, voicing Optimus Primal, as well as a number of new voice actors including Mikey Way, Jamie King, Gregg Berger — the voice of Grimlock from 1986’s Transformers: The Movie — and WWE’s Samoa Joe, who’ll take on the role of Predaking. Wil Wheaton, Judd Nelson and Kari Wahlgren will also return to their respective roles.
Transformers: Power of the Primes is currently scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2018.
We thank Hollywood Reporter for bringing us this news.
jamarmiller
I love perlman and yeah if they couldnt for some reason get gary chalk then Im fine with the awesome perlman doing it, but man if they didnt even try to get chalk I would be extremely pissed
Purple Heart
Poeple keep saying that Ron Perlman won’t make a good Primal, but he and Gary Chalk sound a lot alike. If you have to get someone big from Hollywood to vouce him, Perlman is honestly the best choice.
weevil
Optimus Primal isn\'t voiced by Garry Chalk. Ron Perlman is Good, Who is the best know Hannibal Chau.
I just hope Optimus Primal will be voiced by Takehito Koyasu in JP Dub.
Windsweeper II
Two of my major gripes with this franchise.
Make this about an entire civilization again and not about a handfull of characters!
Stop with the #@+*4# homages!!! Do something new with this franchise!
pilot00
Good voice acting alone, a good series does not make, according to master Yoda.
I grow tired of watching Starscreams ghost episode 3423525, HotRod not wanting to be Rodimus and Optimus Prime dying and been brought back.
At least the guy that did the first parody would create something epic out of this.
rodster6
Did anyone else find Cybertron to feel very under populated? It didn't even feel like Cybertron. More like a small Transformers base on a moon or something. I guess it's budgetary. Too expensive to animate random Transformers in the streets or a larger city.
Sonic Eclipse
I have nothing against Ron Pearlman, I like him. But Optimus Primal will sound like Ron Pearlman and not like Optimus Primal, and I'm just not ok with that.
DeletedUser_119270
Windsweeper II
He was a saving grace in CW, but now they are just overusing a rather tired trope.
If this series needs anything it's not famous voice actors but better writing.
KhaN
Megatron was the best part to me.
Windsweeper II
I just binge watched TR and my stomach turned when I realised potp will be yet another round of Starscream adoration
Yeah, OP will be back too soon enough.
I doubt it will take three episodes for him to become Orion Pax.
The only good thing about TR were Fort Max, Hot Rod, Perceptor, Overlord, Computron, Devy and Menasor really.
I hope we'll see more of them.
I don't even know how they came up with the lines for the others.
And Megatron's "I'm a cool moody anti-hero act is becoming very very old.
UltraAlanMagnus
Frank Welker is a Busy guy.
Autovolt 127
Damn that sucks.
Garry deserves his due soon. Hell all of the Vancouver VA's need to do a new Transformers project.
Bluestreaker
I'm sure this was addressed long ago, but why is Frank Welker not a part of any of this?
dCon
Ouch. Spoiler much? I tend to not be fully caught up on the latest Transformers shows only because it's better to stretch them out so I don't have nothing Transformers to watch. That and my DVR is so full I spend most of the time trying to keep it under 110% (it's always at 98% to 100% I stretched my DVR over the years it added on almost double the amount I originally could have.
Murasame
He's busy battling with David Kaye on YouTube.
Because they can't voice act
Ah, so they don't pay much probably.
Haven't they heard of the internet? I know it's kinda new… but…
samisham
Yes.