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Transformers One gets its first official trailer

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Transformers One gets its first official trailer is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Transformers One gets its first official trailer features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.

Director: Josh Cooley
Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto & Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, Aaron Dem
Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg, Zev Foreman, Olivier Dumont, Brian Oliver, B.J. Farmer, Matt Quigg
Cast: Chris Hemsworth (Orion Pax), Brian Tyree Henry (D-16), Scarlett Johansson (Elita-1) and Keegan-Michael Key (B-127), Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.

Warner Bros. and Tim Miller attempt to build their own space epic franchise with Alien Legion

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The Alien Legion #1

Movies based on comics may be struggling at the box office but that’s not stopping studios from swinging big. Warner Bros. is hoping to launch it’s own space opera franchise with Alien Legion. The comic was originally published by Marvel. Tim Miller, who directed Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate, is attached to direct.

Don Murphy and Susan Montford of Angry Films, the banner whose credits include Transformers and Real Steel, will produce along with Aaron Ryder.

Alien Legion was created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco and published by Marvel’s Epic Comics Line. It ran for 38 issues from April 1984 to August 1990. A follow up series, Uncivil War, was published in 2014 by Titan Comics.

The concept was simple, a space French Foreign Legion. Its focus is an intergalactic peace-keeping force with a wide range of aliens under the Galactic Union, a strained democratic government. But, idealism are pushed to the limits by prejudice and bad intentions.

The comic has long been in the works to be adapted with it being at Dimension Films in the early 2000s. Jerry Bruckheimer set it up at Disney in the late 2000s where scripts were written by David Benioff and Derek Hass. The rights returned to Potts who continued to try to make the project a reality.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)