“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”
More robots but less star power?
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is the first “Transformers” film in five years.
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From June 8th, the “Transformers” will return with a new cinema MOT. “Rise of the Beasts” will play before the main series, which began in 2007.
Well-known and yet completely different, “Transformers” will return to the cinema on June 8th. Because “Rise of the Beasts” takes place in the 90s and is therefore, like “Bumblebee” (2018) before him, a prequel to the previous series. Anyone who is no longer quite in the picture after waiting around five years for the new part can get some jump-start help here.
Back to the start: That’s what it’s all about
The 90s have begun: While chief Autobot Optimus Prime has arrived for some time, the enemy Decepticons are only just landing on planet Earth. At the same time, archaeologist Elena and ex-soldier Noah in Peru find signs of a centuries-old conflict between the metal beings: humanity and Autobots meet a whole new breed of Transformers, the so-called Maximals. It doesn’t take long and the powerful factions are once again at odds with each other.
New heroes before our time
The cinematic time travel back to the 90s and thus before part one alone ensures that previous greats of the franchise do not appear. Shia LaBeouf (36), Megan Fox (37), Josh Duhamel (50) and John Turturro (66), for example, with whom the Hasbro figurines stormed onto the screen for the first time in 2007. From part four, Mark Wahlberg (52) took over as the male protagonist, Brooklyn Beckham’s (24) wife Nicola Peltz (28) embodied his daughter.
In the last film “Bumblebee” from 2018, it was Marvel heroine Hailee Steinfeld (26, “Hawkeye”), whose vehicle turns out to be a robot. At least in this respect “Rise of the Beasts” is a sequel – “Bumblebee” takes place even earlier, in 1987. It showed how and why the Autobots flew to Earth in the first place. “Rise of the Beasts” spins this development further around Optimus Prime’s relatively recent sojourn on Earth.
The great constant of all parts can also be found in “Rise of the Beasts”, if only for fans of the original sound: Peter Cullen (81) once again speaks Optimus Prime, the later leader of the Autobots. If you want to at least hear more star power, you can’t avoid the English version. Among others, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh (60), actor Ron Perlman (73), comedian Pete Davidson (29) and “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage (53) lend their voices to the various metal beings.
The flesh-and-blood stars in the strip are not quite as well-known. Anthony Ramos (31) plays the male lead Noah, he should be known to most of the musical film “Hamilton”. Meanwhile, Dominique Fishback (32) embodies archaeologist Elena. Fishback has already appeared in the series “The Deuce”, among others, as well as in the Oscar-winning film “Judas and the Black Messiah”. The not-so-secret stars of the film series are and will remain the towering sheet metal journeymen anyway – and there are more of them in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” than ever.