Speaking to Collider, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura explained a bit about the creative process of Transformers: One animated movie.
“I don’t know about when we’ll see [the first footage]. It’ll be a while. I can’t tell you how excited I’m getting about it. It’s one of those things that like, it just keeps progressing in the right direction, you know? You never know, sometimes when you’re making a movie, you’re, like, ‘Well, I think it’s working.’ Everything I’m seeing is working and it’s exceeding my sense of what it was gonna be, so I’m really excited about it. It is a very fresh and different look, I would say different than any animated movie you’ve seen, which is a high bar to set, but ILM is capable of delivering it.”
He also spoke highly of the voice cast:
“Also, it’s the imagination of our artists and our director, and one of the great things is, as you actually put the voices to the characters– When we first listen to Chris Hemsworth’s voice, you’re like, ‘God, is he gonna be a good Optimus!’ Obviously, he starts as Orion Pax and you don’t become Optimus for a while, so he’s not playing, for most of the movie, what we think of as Optimus, Peter Cullen. So it’s that transition, and Chris’s voice has a timbre that… it’s logical that Peter Cullen would take over that voice, if you would, which is really great, the fans are gonna really feel great. But Scarlett [Johansson] is amazing, and it’s just coming alive in a way that it’s really rewarding, and we had confidence in our director, and all he’s doing is giving us more and more.”
Transformers One is currently slated for September 14, 2024.
Cosbydaf
Honest question – how much worse can it really get at this point?
How many film franchises are still going that have been managed worse than the live action Transformers? (and not already self-destructed?)
HerlyRan
I just want to tell him do not love Transformers,and we can not accept his enthusiasm to it.
Afterburner
He's really good at un-hyping his own stuff.
Novaburnhilde
I definitely see your point but that'd be kind of a funny character quirk, someone who pronounces various characters names either incorrectly or strangely.
WatermelonSpectacles1
I kinda hope this movie sucks so bonaventura gets fired
John TheDestroyer
Is…this a joke?
kylash327
Thats how Hollywood corporate types talk. Empty hype without actually saying anything. Buzz words. And those people like him with empty brains are the "creative" geniuses behind most of the bad decisions in these films.
Galvatron2000
This guy doesn't know what to do with the franchise, they should give the key to Travis Knight.
Scornstream
Logically speaking, Bee shouldn't be in the movie at all, not even as a background character. But he's their cash cow now (arguably more so than both Optimus and Megatron) and so he has to be in everything.
Lore Keeper
I understand your hesitation about the A-list voice actors. There's a chance their performances will be phoned in for an easy paycheck. It might also turn o7t to be great, though. The original Transformers movie started the trend of popular celebrities in a cartoon movie, and their performances really set the bar. Orson was great as Unicron, and he didn't even want to be there.
Nate98
On the one hand I'm excited for this film as it'll go through the origins of the war and some characters like Orion Pax. Also they're pushing for something like Spiderverse, so it'll be more unique and could help reshape public perception of the movies.
However I'm still worried Lorenzo is involved in these films still, we need someone with actual common sense and let's creatives have actual freedom.
The voice cast is not great and just hiring celebrities for money sake like a lot of other animated films like Universal/Illumination for example. However John Hamm as Sentinel has potential if he's more like his IDW incarnation, Lawrence Fishburne as Alpha Trion is honestly perfect, especially since I love the Matrix Movies and Bryan Tyree Henry could really work as Megatron. But Chris Hemsworth as Orion and Scarlett Johansson as Elita 1 is just…no. I fear they'll be too wooden.
KoubuKai
Has Lorenzo Di Bonaventura ever given a worthwhile, insightful interview? Because everything I read from him just reads like empty hype that doesn't really inform or enlighten in any way.
That said, I'm kind of vaguely interested in this. I think the Spiderverse movies have shown that there are a lot of exciting ways to approach an IP. Whether the creatives involved in this will take advantage of the animation medium, on the other hand, is up for debate.
Hicks_Royel
It does feel like this guy is the Avi Arad of the Hasbro films.
I don't care much for the Marvel crossover side of it. Nothing against either of them but I really would prefer to not hear their voices come out of Transformers.
As for big names in animated movies, that's nothing at all new.
Girl Pants
I think that's a really good point. No amount of Bee G1 Designs or director changes will fully reach parts of the broader public who assumes that the movies are still all the exact same thing. But people will get that an animated thing can be a fresh start. (Almost) no one is walking into Spider-verse expecting it to follow from MCU.
Like you said, let's just hope it is actually a good movie.
Phenotype
What are you on about? Obviously the A-Aron skit was a joke, he’s perfectly capable of pronouncing names correctly. There is legitimate criticism of this film to be made but this definitely isn’t it.
Shepard Prime
The setup was:
I'm assuming this claim was made based off of box office. If that's the criteria then my point stands as both WF and MoM made more than GotG3 at 850+ and 950+ mil respectively and Thor LnT was close at 700+ mil.
Even when you take off both production and marketing, that's still close to half a billion and the studios get the lion's share of the tickets (at least according to the theaters bitching about their take every couple of years).
So no, they very much turned a profit. I think the only movies that probably lost them money was Widow and Shang-Chi and that was due to Covid and the latter still managed to hit 400 mil.
I liked the first Amazing tons and thought the second one was a miss.
BlaminisPrime
What I\'m thinking is, people have a bias against TF cause of the bay movies. I dont care if they\'re secretly good like everyone is suddenly saying, the public hates them is the point. They\'ve destroyed the public pereception and conversation so much so that ROTB is getting confirmation biased all over the place.
An animated movie is a big, undeniable change, it\'ll tell people that this is a different world of Transformers with no doubt and no need for nerds like us to explain that it is different. We need this. and if it\'s good it\'ll feed into people thinking of ROTB and beyond very differently
Whether or not it\'s good, idk, I hope it is. I love animated hilms, the voice cast fills me with dread though, Except for Bryan Tyree Henry, we\'ve needed black megatron for a while.
Autobot Burnout
Don't forget the ending of ROTB. The stench may extend beyond just Transformers alone.
Rquiem
Actually, if you deduct the cost of production, cost of marketing, the theatre take and royalties they made next to nothing. Some lost money. Boxoffice results usually only show you ticket sales and thats it. They dont take anything else into account so people view movies as successes. Instead if the reality.
100% agreed, i love Andrew Garfield, but everything else was just Garbage. From design and storywise.
Same for Venom.
200%!!!!
Rojixus
This is my greatest fear! Lorenzo di Bonaventura has joined forces with the Hasbro suits who keep trying to reanimate the corpse of the Aligned Continuity! Nothing good can come from the worst of Paramount uniting with the worst of Hasbro!