Below, Cooley delves deeper about landing on the CG-driven animation style, what we'll see of Orion Pax and D-16's relationship, making Megatron more understandable, and a whole lot more.

Transformers One showcased the origin story for Orion Pax and D-16, who were the robots that would eventually become the Optimus Prime and Megatron fans are familiar with later. While versions of ...

The previous trailers for Transformers One have played up the friendship between Orion Pax and D-16 before they respectively became Optimus Prime and Megatron. But in the newly released final ...

Before they were known as Optimus Prime and Megatron, they were known as Orion Pax and D-16. Paramount premiered footage from the film to exhibitors at last week’s CinemaCon. Orion Pax is played ...

"Transformers One" hails from Academy Award-nominated director Josh Cooley ("Toy Story 4") and offers up a compelling origin tale of Orion Pax ... a.k.a. Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry), and their ...

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows characters, from left, D-16/Megatron, voiced by Brian Tyree Henry, Elita-1, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, Orion Pax/Optimus Prime, voiced by Chris ...

The film is set on Cybertron before the Autobot-Decepticon Civil War ravaged the planet, and Optimus and Megatron—young miners called Orion Pax and D-16, respectively—are the furthest thing fr ...

An especially interesting virtue in director Josh Cooley’s vision for Transformers One is how it tees up Orion Pax and D-16’s later mythic reputations as Optimus Prime and Megatron.

he was saved by Orion Pax - Optimus Prime - in the process. However, when he learned that the senate had put out a hit on him, Megatron then sought to use violence rather than peace to achieve his ...

Transformers One’s prequel setting unpacks the early friendship between young Optimus and Megatron, when they were still on their homeworld, Cybertron, and known as Orion Pax and D-16 ...