Paramount Reveals ‘Transformers One’ Trailer, Shifts Release Date Back One Week [Video]

Paramount Animation has revealed the trailer for Transformers One, the first fully-animated film in the Transformers franchise since 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie, released in the early days of the Hasbro toy line.

Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley is helming the new pic from a script by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. It’s touted as an origin story recounting how Orion Pax and D-16 went from brothers-in-arms to becoming the sworn enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron.

The trailer shows off an uncompromising sci-fi style that isn’t often seen in animation coupled with a snarky comedic tone that’ll definitely feel familiar to feature animation viewers. It remains to be seen whether this combination of elements can draw crowds back to the franchise, which has seen diminishing global box office returns since peaking with the 2011 release Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Paramount has pushed back the release of the film one week to September 20, presumably to avoid head-to-head competition with Tim Burton’s …