Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Adds Michelle Yeoh & Pete Davidson

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Adds Michelle Yeoh & Pete Davidson

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. took to Instagram to confirm that Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Pete Davidson (Bodies Bodies Bodies) have signed on to lend their voices to the respective characters of Maximal Airazor and Autobot Mirage.

Caple’s post also included a pair of behind-the-scenes videos featuring Yeoh and Davidson during their recording sessions. The action film is currently slated to arrive in theaters on June 9, 2023.

The film will be led by Anthony Ramos (Hamilton, In the Heights) and Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah). Joining them are returning characters Bumblebee and Autobot Mirage, along with the introduction of Scourge, Arcee, Nightbird, Air-Razor, Rhinox, and Optimus Primal. The latter will be voiced by Ron Perlman.

Returning to the action and spectacle that first captured moviegoers around the world 14 years ago with the original Transformers, the newest installment, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, will take audiences on a 90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. Set to take place in New York City and Peru, the new live-action film will follow Optimus Prime in his G1 robot form in the 90s as he is new to Earth.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is being helmed by Creed II director Steven Caple Jr. from a screenplay written by Joby Harold. Further details about its plot and characters are still under wraps but are reportedly expected to pick up the story threads established in 2018’s “soft reboot” Bumblebee.

Executive producers are Steven Spielberg, Brian Goldner, David Ellison, Dan Goldberg, Don Granger, Brian Oliver, Bradley J. Fischer, and Valerii An, with Transformers director Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, and Duncan Henderson serving as producers. It is a production of Skydance Media, eOne, Bay Films, Di Bonaventura Pictures, and New Republic Pictures.