“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Composer Jongnic Bontemps Lets the Emotion Ride

Paramount’s Transformers franchise was conceived by Michael Bay as a maximalist epic of crunching, crashing, morphing metal beasts and the humans caught in the metallic whirlwind of their drama. With director Steven Caple Jr. in the director’s chair for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the series now strives to balance the character and the spectacle in a fashion similar to director Travis Knight’s spinoff film Bumblebee,

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Director Steven Caple Jr. on Getting Gritty With It

Director Steven Caple Jr. steps into a large, alien robot-strewn sandbox with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts for his biggest feature yet. For decades, the Autobots and Decepticons have captured fans’ imaginations in Michael Bay’s franchise. To keep the series alive and well, Caple Jr. wanted to ground the famous robot characters, including Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, in the particulars of a specific, still quite human world in the 1990s. Rise of the Beasts is one of the earliest-set films in the franchise,

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Ciara Whaley on Recreating That Strong 90s Style

With the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, director Steven Caple Jr. wanted to evoke the experience of growing up a kid in the 90s. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts begins in Brooklyn in 1994, and from the settings to the costumes and the era-defining hip-hop, everything evokes the style and sensibilities of the period. 

The story takes place after the happenings of 2018’s Bumblebee, which is set in 1987.

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Review Round-Up: Fan-Favorite Maximals & Human Story Supercharge Blockbuster

With director Steven Caple Jr.’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts just a few days away from stomping into theaters, the reviews are starting to take shape (bad pun intended) for the seventh installment in the alien robot franchise. The verdict? Thus far, it seems as if Caple Jr. and his cast and crew have managed to breathe new life into this mega-narrative about the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, with Earth caught right in the middle.

Meet the Maximals in New “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Teaser

“We’ve seen the Maximals in graphic novels, and we’ve seen them in cartoons, but we’ve never seen them in live-action,” says Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. at the top of this new look at the beastly robots in his new film. Rise of the Beasts will offer audiences a chance to see what these creatures are made of, and why they’re such a key cog in the larger Transformers universe.

How “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Director Steven Caple Jr. Supercharged New Installment

“Steven’s creativity is phenomenal,” says producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the top of a new behind-the-scenes video for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. “He’s got really inventive and fresh ideas, and he’s bringing a totally different sensibility to this movie.”

“This is the first time the Maximals are ever seen in live-action,” Caple Jr. says, referring to the beastly robots who transform into animals and play a central role in Rise of the Beasts. 

New “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Clip Finds Prime Meeting Primal

Primal, meet Prime. You two will probably have a lot to talk about—that is, if you don’t kill each other first.

The two valorous Optimuses (or is it Optimi?), one Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) and the other Optimus Primal (voiced by Ron Perlman), meet in a brand new clip released by Paramount. But these two colossi aren’t the only ones who get to know each other in the forest; there’s a whole host of Autobots and Maximals,

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Official Trailer Roars New Life Into Franchise

The official trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is here, revealing the franchise’s chest-thumping new direction as a whole new host of metallic alien colossi stomp into view. The new trailer offers a longer, more detailed look at the seventh installment of the Transformers franchise, which is set in 1994 and is inspired by the ’90s Beast Wars cartoon. As we learned when the previous trailer dropped, 

Watch Optimus Prime & Optimus Primal Rise at SXSW Ahead of “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” World Tour

Paramount has revealed that Optimus Prime and his more feral cousin, Optimal Primal, are in Austin, Texas.

Ahead of the studios’ release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts this summer, Paramount is setting up shop, so to speak, in Austin for the SXSW Festival, with massive Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal statues unveiled by some of the film’s cast and crew. Stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Tobe Nwigwe were in Austin for the unveiling,

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Trailer Reveals the Maximals, Predacons, & Terrorcons

The seventh installment of the Transformers franchise arrives with a trailer that boasts snippets of a Biggie Smalls classic, the reveal of some beastly Transformers like a massive metallic giant ape, and the reveal of the most terrifying alien robots of them all. The film, inspired by the ’90s Beast Wars cartoon, also boasts a fresh new cast, led by stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, with new transformers voiced by none other than Michelle Yeoh (!!) and Pete Davidson.