
Peter Dinklage voices Scourge in "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" (Image credit: Paramount Pictures)īack on Earth in "Rise of the Beasts," we're given the sparse group of tired human characters in a setup straight out of an old TV afterschool special, with Anthony Ramos as Noah Diaz, a former military electronics engineer living in Brooklyn trying to get a job to help pay for his sick little brother's mounting medical bills. "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts"' animal-themed robots were first introduced in the classic late-'90s cartoon series called "Beast Wars: Transformers." As seen in that vintage show, Maximals and Predacons (a Terrorcon faction in the film) represent the next evolutionary phase of the former denizens of Cybertron, transforming into land animals and birds instead of vehicles and planes.
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Its value is quickly explained to be a futuristic device that opens portals to Energon-rich planets around the galaxy and acts as the Autobots' way home.Īfter these evil Terrorcons invade a jungle planet inhabited by Maximals, the peaceful animal-machine hybrids led by Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman), the android ape is entrusted with the glittering doohickey and escapes to find a suitable world to hide it from these robotic ruffians. The blink-and-you-miss-it plot involves a rare cosmic thingamajig called a trans-warp key that the planet-devouring Unicron and its Decepticon-like villains led by Scourge (Peter Dinklage) are in desperate need of to dominate the universe.
