Paramount unveils 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' at virtual event

The insanely popular Transformers franchise is transforming into something beastly Hollywood studio Paramount revealed that the seventh installment of its hit franchise has been titled Transformers Rise of the Beasts As per Variety the announcement regarding the title of the upcoming movie was made by the studio during a virtual press event on Tuesday to celebrate the beginning of productionThe Transformers movie franchise will take on the Beast Wars storyline from the late 1990s in Transformers Rise of the Beasts producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and director Steven Caple Jr shared Production is just starting on the feature but Di Bonaventura and Caple still did reveal a fair amount about the forthcoming installmentSimilar to Travis Knights 2018 film Bumblebee which was set in 1987 the new film will be set in 1994 so as not to intersect with the five Transformers movies directed by Michael Bay though those films werent exactly sticklers for the laws of time and space either Unlike Bumblebee which Di Bonaventura said was deliberately designed to be a smaller more intimate movie Transformers Rise of the Beasts will be a spectacle story in the tradition of the Bay filmsThe action will move to New York City and will incorporate two new human characters Elena Dominique Fishback an artifact researcher who keeps having credit for her work taken by her boss and Noah Anthony Ramos an exmilitary electronics expert who lives with his family in Brooklyn The production will also shoot in Peru including a rare opportunity to film at the ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu a logistical nightmare that Caple said he and his production team are still working onBumblebee will return to Rise of the Beasts but the film will revolve more around Optimus Prime voiced once again by Peter Cullen serving as a kind of origin story as he arrives on Earth for the first time and learns to become a leader I want to discover more about Optimus Prime get underneath the surface get underneath the metal if you would and explore who he is and his experience on Earth said CapleThe filmmaker also revealed concept art of Primes appearance for the film which will more closely align with Primes boxy look from the original animated series and toy line Other classic Transformers characters who will appear in Rise of the Beasts include Mirage aka a Porsche 911 and Arcee one of the only Transformers to be gendered femaleOtherwise the film will draw from the Beast Wars animated series which focused on robots who transform themselves into animals as opposed to vehicles As Caple explained in the film these transformers are prehistoric animals that travelled through time and space and we find them on EarthThey include Airazor who can become a falcon Rhinox who can become a rhioceros and Optimus Primal a different character from Optimus Prime who can transform into a massive gorilla and is the leader of the beastlike MaximalsCaple also previewed concept art for these characters suggesting a sleek elegance to their design a small but important difference from the moreismore maximalist approach to the transformer designs in Bays movies As a teenager in the 1990s Caple said that he was a big fan of the Beast Wars TV series which was one of the first animated shows to use CGI instead of twodimensional drawingsDi Bonaventura explained that the decision to pivot the franchise to Beast Wars was to give the audience a lot of new We had somewhat exhausted I would say the battle between Decepticons and Autobots he said Di Bonaventura added Youre going to see villains youve never seen before youre going to see Autobots youve never seen before youre going to see a lot of elements that weve never done beforeThe event was part of Paramount Pictures debut of its virtual showcase experience a VR recreation of the Paramount studio lot and main theater that allowed for guests to mill about and talk to each other while awaiting the presentation Transformers Rise of the Beasts is set to debut on June 24 2022Also readHeres what Bumblebee crew have to say about the director Travis KnightThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever