Chris Hemsworth reveals that his children played a key role in his decision to voice Young Optimus Prime in "Transformers One."

The director Josh Cooley narrates a sequence from his film.

After winning an Oscar for 'Toy Story 4,' the filmmaker took a gamble by leaving longtime home Pixar to helm a Transformers origin story. Within days, the pandemic hit, causing him to wonder, "Did I just make the worst decision of all time?

For at least one generation of "Transformers" fans, the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated feature "The Transformers: The Movie" was a formative moviegoing experience, if not a fully traumatic one.

"We're used to seeing the story begin once the planet's dying and they leave for Earth," the filmmaker tells TheWrap The post ‘Transformers One’ Director Josh Cooley Hints at Potential Trilogy: ‘There’s Definitely More Story to Tell’ appeared first on TheWrap.

That’s where the characters find themselves in “Transformers One,” the animated origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Up to this point in the movie, the film’s leads have not been in the possession of the cogs needed to transform.