The 7th entry in the Transformers film franchise based on the famous Hasbro toy line will center on Optimus Prime in 1994 Brooklyn (seven years after the events of Bumblebee) and sees him teaming up with a pair of archaeologists who become involved with three separate forms of ancient Transformers: the Maximals, the Predacons, and the Terrorcons. Paramount initially wanted to create two Transformers films, with one being a sequel to 2018’s Bumblebee written by The Amazing Spider-Man’s James Vanderbilt. The other was to be based on the animated Beast Wars storyline and would be written by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Joby Harold.

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According to Deadline, as if the cast couldn’t get any more exciting, the new voice cast additions include Dinklage as Scourge and DiMaggio as Stratosphere. Also joining the cast are Liza Koshy as Arcee, David Sobolov as Rhinox/Battletrap, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as Nightbird, Cristo Fernández as Wheeljack, and Tobe Nwigwe as Reek. They join other voice cast members like Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal, Pete Davidson as Mirage and Michelle Yeoh as Airazor.

Dinklage is best known for his work on HBO’s hit Game of Thrones, and Koshy recently completed production on Netflix’s Family Affair. DiMaggio has starred in AMC’s Better Call Saul and has been a voiceover actor on several projects, including Futurama, Disenchantment, and Adventure Time. Sobolov voiced Blitzwing in Bumblebee, and Rodriguez starred in Pose, Luke Cage, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature tick, tick…Boom! Fernandez plays Dani Rojas on Ted Lasso and Grammy-nominated artist/actor Nwigwe co-stars in the Netflix television series Mo.

Director Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II) is helming the project, hoping to bring a fresh voice to the franchise, similar to what Travis Knight did for Bumblebee. The film’s human cast includes Hamilton and In the Heights star Anthony Ramos and Judas and the Black Messiah’s Dominique Fishback as the two leads.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will arrive in theatres on June 9, 2023.

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Source: Deadline