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Transformers One turns Cybertron’s greatest warriors into bumbling youths in first trailer

Transformers One’s take on Optimus Prime is young, dumb, and uncannily human.

Set in the distant past on the Cybertronian homeworld, Transformers One tells the story of how Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 / Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry) went from being best friends to mortal enemies soon after discovering their powers to turn into various kinds of vehicles. Though they’re supposed to keep busy with their assigned tasks, Orion, D-16, and other Cybertronians like Elita-1 (Scarlett Johansson) and B-127 / Bumblebee (Keegan-Michael Key) find time to sneak off and get into the kinds of trouble you’d expect teens to gravitate towards. But they’re even more surprised when an encounter with Alpha Trion (Laurence Fishburne) leaves them changed and finally able to refashion their bodies into vehicles that don’t entirely seem alien in design.

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