With all this talk of The Flash and Indiana Jones and Fast X, it’s easy to forget that we’re actually getting other movies this summer. One of the big ones, in fact, is Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is taking the nostalgia bait that Paramount tried to do with Bumblebee and turning it up to eleven. Yep, this movie is basically cinematic Crystal Pepsi: Not only are the Maximals and Predacons (from ’90s classic Beast Wars) in the movie, but they’re gonna fight fucking Unicron.
And look, we get that technically Unicron came out back in ’86 with the OG Transformers movie and was voiced by Orson fucking Welles (good god), but hey, you can’t really find a bigger bad than that, especially since Michael Bay stayed away from him for his entire tenure as these movies’ director. If you don’t believe us, here’s the new trailer that Paramount dropped earlier on Thursday. We’re just bummed that one of the characters’ heads doesn’t shoot up after getting rocked-and-socked.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis, which really probably should include the fact that they have, you know, the biggest and most memorable non-Megatron baddie in the franchise’s history returning, especially now that he’s in the damn marketing:
“Returning to the action and spectacle that first captured moviegoers around the world 14 years ago with the original ‘Transformers,’ ‘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.”
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts transforms and rolls out into theaters on June 9. We imagine that this will be a kind of epochal moment for a certain breed of dude who regularly posted in the Transformers threads on the Something Awful forums. If you know, you know.