Transformers One, the recent film from Paramount Animation and Hasbro Entertainment, which marks the first fully CG-animated effort in the Transformers franchise, is set to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, November 15, the streamer announced on Thursday.
Starring Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry, the film’s availability in additional international Paramount+ markets will be announced at a later date. Pic’s streaming debut follows a theatrical release that saw it take in over $128 million worldwide. While logged onto Paramount+, Transformers fans can also access all seven live-action films in the franchise, along with Paramount+ original animated series Transformers: Earthspark, which has unveiled three seasons.
Directed by Toy Story 4‘s Josh Cooley, the latest Transformers film delves into the untold origin story of how the legendary Optimis Prime (Hemsworth) and Megatron (Henry), the respective leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, went from brothers-in-arms to sworn enemies. Others in the cast include Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Steve Buscemi as Starscream, Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion, and Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime.
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The film was considered an underperformer at the box office, despite the fact that it was widely acclaimed by critics, with an 89% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and an and A on Cinemascore.
Script for Transformers One came from Eric Pearson and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, who worked from a story by Barrer & Ferrari. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto & Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, and Aaron Dem produced alongside executive producers Steven Spielberg, Zev Foreman, Olivier Dumont, Bradley J. Fischer, B.J. Farmer and Matt Quigg.