“That one scarred me and a whole generation,” director Josh Cooley tells Entertainment Weekly.
“That one scarred me and a whole generation,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“There’s some amazing voice work done on that movie,” the director says.
Orion Pax (voiced by Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry) in ‘Transformers One’.Paramount Pictures
So I knew that we needed to have some heavyweight cast in this film as well."
“It was not intentional,” the director admits with a laugh.
“All of them just nailed it.”
Elita-1 (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), B-127 (Keegan-Michael Key), D-16, and Orion Pax in ‘Transformers One’.Paramount Pictures
Joining them to voice these characters who are more than meets the eye areKeegan-Michael Keyas B-127 a.k.a.
Bumblebee,Jon Hammas Sentinel Prime,Laurence Fishburneas Alpha Trion, andSteve Buscemias a mysteriously unidentified villain.
“I was concerned.
How do we [follow that]?
And when I really listened to Chris, he had this power to his voice.
He took the lines and just pushed even further.
When it came to debuting young Megatron, a.k.a.
D-16, Cooley wanted to do something different with the well-known villain.
“Megatron is always known as the bad guy,” he says.
We don’t know the backstory behind this.”
And these two versions just naturally butt heads against each other.
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“They eventually become enemies, and people know that,” he says.
Hopefully without causing lifelong trauma this time.
