Summary

• Finally explore Optimus Prime & Megatron's friendship turned rivalry in the Transformers One animated movie.
• Transformers One sheds light on Cybertron history, serving as a prequel to the mainline Transformers lore.
• The film's focus on origins promises to offer longtime Transformers fans a deeper understanding of key characters.

Transformers One is on the way, and it is finally showing the Optimus Prime and Megatron story that the live-action movies ignored. The live-action Transformers managed to explore many aspects of the beloved franchise, with it being pretty fleshed out throughout each movie. For too long, however, the Transformers live-action films ignored one of the saga's most important stories, something that Transformers One is set to fix.

An animated Transformers movie titled Transformers One is in the works, with the highly-anticipated animated entry in the beloved franchise set to release in late 2024. The film is set to take an entirely new approach to the franchise, recasting many of the iconic characters and acting as a prequel to the mainline Transformers lore. The film has a lot of potential, with this prequel setting meaning that it can finally explore this key Transformers storyline.

Optimus Prime & Megatron's Past As Friends Is The Focus Of Transformers One

Finally Exploring Cybertron History

Transformers One is taking on a part of the saga that the live-action movies didn't, with the prequel's focus being on Optimus Prime and Megatron's past as friends. Optimus Prime and Megatron are the main protagonist and antagonist of the Transformers franchise respectively, with them being two of the series' most iconic characters. Surprisingly, however, their past has been given very little development in Transformers movies, which is why Transformers One is so exciting.

Transformers One will be an origin story, set on the planet Cybertron. It will focus on Orion Pax and D-16's transformations into Optimus Prime and Megatron, highlighting their friends to enemies arc. The animated adaptation is the first project in a while that has attempted to cover this story, which is why it is so exciting for many longtime Transformers fans.

Transformers' Live-Action Movies Never Explored Optimus & Megatron's History

It Was Sadly Ignored

Despite the importance of Optimus Prime and Megatron to the live-action Transformers movies, the films never explored their history together. The Transformers movies started out by giving a greater focus to the humans, with Optimus Prime and the rest of the gang arriving to Earth in their current forms rather than having him be Orion Pax.

Megatron's different antagonistic roles throughout the Transformers movies meant that the films didn't have the room to explore this origin story, causing it to sadly be ignored. While the Transformer franchise's Earth-based adventures were given more focus in the live-action movies, Transformers One is finally focusing on their origins on Cybertron, meaning that Optimus Prime and Megatron's relationship can finally be explored.