Today is the release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. The film is the eighth in the long-running franchise, seventh in the live-action series, sequel to the 2018 hit Bumblebee, and second prequel to the original live-action film. The story follows the heroic Autobots who must team up with the mysterious Maximals and two humans in order to acquire a device that could allow the evil Terrorcons to unleash the planet-consuming Unicron upon the universe.
The film features the talents of Peter Cullen as Autobot truck Optimus Prime; Ron Perlman as Maximal ape Optimus Primal; John DiMaggio as Autobot plane Stratosphere; David Sobolov as Maximal rhino Rhinox, Terrorcon Battletrap, and Maximal Apelinq; and Lauren Velez as mother Breanna Diaz.