Tag: Beast Wars
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Why Transformers’ Voice Actor David Kaye Was So Surprised By His Optimus Prime Casting
Voice actor David Kaye still remembers getting the news he’d been cast on “Transformers: Animated.” Two weeks after a callback where he read for multiple characters, he got a call from his agent. Kaye, who was driving in downtown LA, answered his phone and heard the news: he’d got the part … of Optimus Prime.…
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Fails Its ‘Beast Wars’ Characters
While fans of the live-action Transformers series have been waiting five years for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — the previous entry, Bumblebee, was met with unexpectedly positive reviews in 2018 — fans of Beast Wars: Transformers having been waiting for a big screen adaptation of the series since the first Transformers movie debuted back…
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10 Episodes of ‘Beast Wars: Transformers’ That Don’t End Well For the Heroes
After the success of ReBoot, the first television show made entirely with CGI, Mainfraim Entertainment partnered with Hasbro to create the second generation of Transformers. The result was Beast Wars, which saw Maximals and Predacons —descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons —battle for control of an alien planet after going back in time and space.…
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Will Continue the Franchise, Explore the ‘Beast Wars’ Characters
It’s been three years since Bumblebee, and since Paramount doesn’t want one of its biggest film franchises to gather dust, we’re getting a new Transformers movie. Today, the studio revealed that the next film will be a prequel called Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and it will explore characters from Beast Wars, a spin-off of…