‘Transformers One’ Was Influenced by the World of ‘Dune'

The Big Picture For a tale too massive to be live-action, Academy Award-winning director Josh Cooley's origin story, Transformers One, turns to a unique style of animation, inspired by the original G1 designs.

JOSH COOLEY: For me, as a filmmaker, it's about the film that we're making now. But knowing that this story does lead to future stories, I think that's just part of where we are in the lore, and so the big thing for me was like, “Okay, we all know Optimus and Megatron are enemies, what they'll become, but in this story we're seeing before, Orion Pax and D-16. So that relationship was everything for me.

COOLEY: I gotta say, absolutely. I'm not the first one to want to go out and see a movie in 3D. I do think animated films look fantastic in 3D, but when they first showed me the first footage of this film, the test they had done in 3D, my mind's still blown. It looks so good, and actually makes the storytelling even better, which kind of pissed me off. I was like, “God, it even looks better. Most people aren't gonna see it this way.

COOLEY: I'll just say this, we have a scene that's basically a flashback but is told in a way where our characters live within the flashback, are experiencing the flashback in real time, almost like AR in a way, and that was a very complicated scene. But it looks absolutely stunning. ILM knocked out of the park.What Is 'Transformers One's Target Audience? One of the things I'm curious about is the trailer footage and the footage I saw at CinemaCon.

COOLEY: Well, the fun thing about doing this film is this is a sci-fi film. Earth doesn't exist. We're on another planet. We're in space. There could be different types of villains out there — not just robots. So that was a huge plus for me. It was like, “Let's make a film that's not just about robots, but about anything else that's out there.” So, there are other threats.

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