Paramount and Hasbro’s animated Transformers One is pushing back its release in theaters by one week in order to take advantage of Imax screens and to provide some breathing room from the competition.
The film will now open on Sept. 20 of this year instead of Sept. 13. That gives it two weeks of distance from Sony’s Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.
Paramount revealed the date change as it launched a new trailer for Transformers One from none other than space, a first for Hollywood, according to the studio. The launch kicked off at 6 a.m. PT with a live-streamed countdown showing the journey into space. After one hour, the craft reached its peak at 125,000 feet above the Earth, revealing the trailer with a custom introduction video from voice stars Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry.
The star-studded voice cast also includes Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key and Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.
Transformers One — the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie — is billed as the untold origin story of how sworn enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron were once friends bonded like brothers, and how their ultimate rift changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Theater owners were treated to a sneak peek of the trailer last week at CinemaCon, where Hemsworth and Henry also introduced the first scene from the movie in 3D.
Hemsworth voices Orion Pax, a young Optimus Prime, while Henry, who is D-16, voices a young Megatron.
Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) is directing the movie from a script by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari for Paramount Animation and Hasbro in association with New Republic Pictures.
In other dating news, Paramount is pushing back its untitled animated Aang: The Last Airbender Avatar movie from Oct. 10, 2025 to Jan. 30, 2026.
