Paramount kicked off the big studio presentations at San Diego Comic-Con in high style, showing off the cast and scenes from its upcoming animated feature, Transformers One.
The studio has been hyping up the movie for a couple of months. It showed a work-in-progress version at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, while a fan screening hit Los Angeles earlier this week — so the panel was light on news.
It did, however, more than make up for that with the charm of its crowd-pleasing voice cast: Chris Hemsworth as Orion Pax, who will evolve into Optimus Prime; Brian Tyree Henry as D-16, who will turn into villainous Megatron; and Keegan-Michael Key, whose B-127 will become Bumblebee.
Key had the crowd laughing by making Transformers sound effects and singing the classic theme song. And later, during the Q&A, a female guest directed her question to Key and Henry, throwing a casual “And Chris, I guess,” which generated much ribbing of the Australian superstar and became a running joke.
“Oh this is historic!” howled Key.
And even after the last question was posed, moderator