Chris Hemsworth is Optimus Prime in new Transformers origin story movie

Peter Cullen, the actor who has played the voice of Optimus prime for almost 40 years now, is stepping in to play the Autobot’s tires for a brand new Transformers film. Chris Hemsworth is the voice of Optimus Prime in the new Transformers movie.Thor) will voice a young and, one can only assume, hunky Optimus Prime for Transformers OneParamount Animation released a trailer for, an animated movie which promises to tell the origin stories of the Autobots’ and Decepticons’ leaders.

Transformers OneBrian Tyree Henry will be in the movie as well.Atlanta, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse) as young Megatron in a story about how the two most famous Transformers “went from brothers-in-arms to sworn enemies,” Paramount said. The story of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s youth was previously explored in comic publisher IDW’s Transformers series (pictured above), but the animated feature film will likely take its own approach to young Optimus, back when he was known as Orion Pax.

Joining Hemsworth and Henry in the animated film’s cast are Scarlett Johansson as Elita (aka Elita One, Optimus’ Autobot leader stand-in while he was away from Cybertron for a few million years); Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee; Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, the leader of the Autobots before Optimus took over; and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, one of the oldest, wisest Transformers.

Josh Cooley is the former Pixar screenwriter and artist who directed Toy Story 4The helming is by. Transformers One. Andrew Barrer is co-author with Gabriel Ferrari. Ant-Man & the Wasp and Hulu’s No ExitThe screenplay was written by.

Transformers OneMovie theaters will open on July 19th, 2024.