Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Casts Michelle Yeoh, Pete Davidson in 2023 Movie

Michelle Yeoh will lend voice to Airazor the Maximal, while Pete Davidson plays the Autobot Mirage.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Akhil Arora, Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 12 October 2022 18:05 IST

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Michelle Yeoh; Pete Davidson

Highlights

Transformers 7 is a sequel to 2018’s soft reboot film, Bumblebee
Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Lauren Vélez part of cast
It will introduce the Beast era of robots — Maximals and Terrorcons

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has cast Michelle Yeoh and Pete Davidson in voice roles. In an Instagram post, director Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II) dropped behind-the-scenes videos of the actors performing their lines for the franchise film, based on Hasbro's Transformers action figures. Yeoh will lend voice to Airazor, the Maximal who can shapeshift into the beast form, a pelican. Davidson, on the other hand, plays Mirage, the crimson-themed Autobot, who mysteriously died in 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Mirage aka Dino was originally played by sco Quinn (Platoon), who ed away from a heart attack, a week into the release of Everything Everywhere All at Once, plays one of the Maximal , who are descendants of the Autobots (the good guys).

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Yeoh and Davidson a Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a 1990s globe-trotting adventure, that will introduce the Beast/ fauna race, Maximals and Terrorcons, to the existing battle on earth between the Autobots and Decepticons. Michael Bay, who directed the first five films in the series, returns as producer. The seventh Transformers film will reportedly be set in Brooklyn, New York, before heading into other locations, including Peru.

The Hailee Steinfeld-led (Transformers film grossed $468 million (about Rs. 3,850 crore) globally, against a production budget of $135 million (about Rs. 1,110 crore). Dylan O'Brien voiced the titular Autobot in the movie, though currently, there's no word on his return.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is slated to hit theatres on June 9, 2023.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Release Date 9 June 2023
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast
Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Vélez, Dean Scott Vazquez, Tobe Nwigwe, Sarah Stiles, Leni Parker, Michael Kelly
Director
Steven Caple Jr.
Producer
Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, Duncan Henderson

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