![]() ![]() Other noteworthy casting choices include Star Trek alum, Leonard Nimoy, as Galavatron, the new character created by Unicron out of Megatron, 1980’s “Brat-Pack” alum, Judd Nelson, as Hot Rod, comedian Lionel Stander as Kup, actor Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, John Moschitta Jr. It was reported that his voice was almost unusable due to his deteriorated health at the time, but it was salvaged by running his voice through a vocal synthesizer. Welles finished his lines for the movie a scant five days before his death in 1985. ![]() In terms of casting choices, the most unique casting choice in the movie had to be that of iconic actor Orson Welles, whose voice appeared in the film as the planet-devouring villain, Unicron. Throughout the course of the movie, the Autobots gained a new leader and new allies, were triumphant over Unicron, and managed to retake their homeworld of Cybertron from the Decepticons, setting the stage for the remainder of the show, which carried onward from the events of the movie.Ĭontributing to the enduring nostalgia for the film are the interesting bits of on-screen and behind-the-scenes information that have come out over the years about some of the surprising casting choices made for the movie, as well as some of the things considered but ultimately rejected in the finished movie. The movie also continued the struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons, particularly during the opening of the film, which led to the death and/or alteration of several legacy characters, most notably Optimus Prime, the Autobot leader, as well as Megatron, the Decepticon leader. The movie primarily focused on the Autobots and Decepticons battling a planet-sized creature, known as Unicron, who devoured planets and threatened their home planet of Cybertron. The movie also introduced several new characters such as Hot Rod, Kup, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Blurr, Springer, and Daniel, who would all go on to be main characters during subsequent seasons of the show. The movie primarily included characters from the first season of the show, since some of the second season characters had not been created yet when the writers began working on the movie. As announced at the beginning of the film by the show’s narrator, the movie is set in then-futuristic 2005, approximately twenty years after the end of the second season of the animated series.
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