Ken Nolan, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway & Akiva Goldsmanĭon Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian and Lorenzo di Bonaventura Ian Bryce, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Lorenzo di BonaventuraĮhren Kruger, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman John Rogers, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman It is the 13th-highest-grossing film series, with a total of $5.28 billion the series films have generally been successful at the box office, with Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction grossing over $1 billion each. The live action Transformers film series has received negative to mixed reception, except for Bumblebee, which received positive reviews. The series has been distributed by Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Pictures worked on the first two films. A sixth film Bumblebee, directed by Travis Knight, was released in 2018, while a seventh film, Rise of the Beasts, directed by Steven Caple Jr. Michael Bay directed the first five live action films: Transformers (2007), Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014), and The Last Knight (2017), and has served as a producer for subsequent films. Thanks for noticing me."Īnd to see their faces light up, that to me is one of the great joys.Transformers is a series of science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise of the 1980s. I enjoyed doing Eeyore because he was simply charming.Īnd I get an awful lot of reactions from, especially, young kids, when I go up and just say, "Hello. On the characters he has most enjoyed playing But in effect, the lines just came out, and I just did my brother, Larry. I had no idea what the script was going to be. Don't be a Hollywood stereotypical thing with the yelling and screaming." He said, "Be strong enough to be gentle." And Larry was that way. "Well, if you're going to be a hero, be a real hero. "This is really good, Pete, yeah," he said. He had returned from service as a Marine in Vietnam, and I told him one day I was going out to audition for a truck.Īnd I said, "Yeah, but he's a hero truck." I was living with my brother Larry at the time. I was told it was a hero, and I was told it was a truck. On landing the role of Optimus Prime in the 1980s cartoon Peter Cullen was the first actor to voice Optimus Prime, in the 1980s TV cartoon. And I walked down the center of that aisle with these cows looking at me and I said, "This is fantastic." I must have been 8 years old. So I did something like, "And now that I have your attention!" And they all looked up. I found one day that I made a loud noise and all the cows looked up to me. And one of the greatest memories I have is, I had a full dairy barn where I would collect milk pails with my brother, Larry. And I remember the very first summer, I could imitate the cows, the calves, the chickens, the different dogs they had. I lived on a farm, and I worked the farm. On when he realized he had a talent for doing voices He tells Rath that of the many characters he has played over the years, a certain giant, extraterrestrial robot is still his favorite. In an interview with NPR's Arun Rath, Cullen says playing Optimus Prime again was "like slipping into an old pair of shoes that you hid in the back of your closet."Ĭullen got his big break as the announcer on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the early 1970s, and famously voiced Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh. Other actors have played Optimus Prime in various iterations of Transformers over the years, but Cullen happily returned to the role for the live-action film franchise. The live-action films have embraced the latest in visual affects - but the movies have also called back to the series' past, through the voice of Peter Cullen.Ĭullen, 72, was the first actor to give voice to Optimus Prime - the leader of the Autobots, and the series' metal, robotic heart - on the original Transformers cartoon show in the 1980s. Director Michael Bay's film franchise has consistently topped charts since the first film arrived in theaters in 2007. Transformers: Age of Extinction has smashed its way to the No.
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