The “Transformers One” script written by Eric Pearson and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari is now out there to view on-line, unique to IndieWire. You may learn the screenplay for the primary animated “Transformers” movie since 1986 right here.
Regardless of a gentle stream of “Transformers” movies the previous 17 years, one medium that felt untouchable to producers was the very one which made audiences the world over initially fall in love with these robots in disguise. Therefore, when it got here time to inform the long-awaited origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, Paramount lastly did so by means of animation, with “Transformers One” directed by Finest Animated Characteristic Oscar winner Josh Cooley.
Barrer and Ferrari, the primary writers on the undertaking that sees characters Orion Pax, D-16, and extra rework into the long-lasting characters we all know them as immediately, instructed IndieWire by way of assertion, “From the second we pitched the concept, our aim was to inform a narrative concerning the loss of life of a greatest friendship that will have labored simply as properly if it had been about people. It was at all times ‘Stand by Me’ with Transformers. That touchstone helped us uncover a complete new tone for the franchise. Each side of the storytelling and world-building boiled all the way down to an effort to discover the humanity of those sentient robots within the first film since 1986 to really star them within the lead roles.”
Screenwriter Eric Pearson, who labored on a later model of the script, echoed the crew’s sentiments on the movie starring the voices of Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry as Optimus Prime and Megatron of their early days on Cybertron. “‘Transformers One’ was such a enjoyable alternative to take part in a single of popular culture’s best and most enduring franchises. As Josh Cooley and the crew had already selected the broad strokes of the plot, my aim was to boost the characters and relationships by means of not solely dialogue, but additionally motion and habits. One thing so simple as Orion Pax realizing that D-16 would go loopy for an authentic classic Megatronus Prime decal did a lot to let the viewers know who these characters are, how properly they know each other, and the place their minds drift off to throughout quiet moments,” he stated by way of assertion.
“Working with these unimaginable characters (and the impossibly gifted voice forged) we had been capable of inform the story of two greatest mates who set off on a giant journey unaware of the large repercussions in play. Although they’re capable of purchase enjoyable new allies and funky new powers alongside the way in which, the tragedy of the story is that the pressure of this journey irreparably fractures the bond of friendship. In the long run, our hope was that ‘Transformers One’ might be not solely a bombastically enjoyable Transformers film, but additionally a heartfelt drama with classes about friendship and doing the proper factor,” added Pearson.
Learn the “Transformers One” screenplay right here.
“Transformers One” is now streaming on Paramount+.