Earlier this year, Paramount Pictures announced that a new animated Transformers movie is in-development, and is set for release on July 19, 2024.
That's pretty much all that was revealed about the project at the time, but thanks to Collider, we now have a much better idea of what to expect.
While being interviewed for the site, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura basically laid out the entire premise of the movie, confirming that the story would be primarily set on the home planet of the Robots in Disguise, Cybertron.
He also revealed that the untitled film will serve as an origin story for both Optimus Prime and his nemesis, Megatron, who started out as close friends before the Autobots and Decepticons split apart and went to war.
"We debated a lot about it in live action, and it just was financially impossible to do, which is, the origin story of young Megatron and young Optimus. If you know the origin, they started as friends, and over time things devolved for them and they ended up on two sides. So we're telling the young Optimus and the young Megatron story. We really are telling the origin story of all Transformers, both what they were at the beginning of it, to how they grow, to how they grow apart."
Bonaventura then explained why their idea simply wouldn't be feasible for a live-action film, going on to reveal that they are hoping to have enough material for a trilogy.
"We’re hoping that there is enough emotional construct to that, that would lead to a trilogy of it because, personally, I think there's a natural trilogy. I'm not always looking to do multiple movies, but there's a natural trilogy around their relationship. So, you're going to see Cybertron in a way you've never seen it, that no one's ever seen it before. Because we're doing an animation, we're allowed to really go all out. If you tried to make this live-action, it would probably be a billion-dollar movie or something."
Many fans still consider the '80s animated movie to be a high point of the entire Transformers franchise, so there's sure to be a lot of excitement for this one.