Scarlett Johansson Says Transformers One Looks So Cool
212The last time an animated Transformers movie made it to the big screen, audiences everywhere experienced a story that wasn't afraid to get deeper and more emotional than anyone could've asked for a feature-length take on a Saturday morning cartoon made to sell toys. It's been nearly 40 years since The Transformers: The Movie released and only now is there movement on yet another animated film. Transformers One will tell the origin story of the relationship between young Optimus Prime and Megatron on their home world of Cybertron, exploring how they ultimately fell apart on different sides of a conflict. Such a story needs serious depth and heart to pull off and according to Scarlett Johansson, it definitely delivers.
Johansson, who plays Elita in Transformers One, sat down with Collider's Steve Weintraub during a press junket for Asteroid City where she discussed her reaction to the film. Although she couldn't give much information on her role within this first chapter of the Transformers story, she had plenty of praise for writer-director Josh Cooley for bringing it all together with the gravitas it deserves. She's also the latest member of the film's team to be in awe of the animation work done by Industrial Light and Magic to make the film something wholly unique. She said:
"Yes, I’m playing Elita. I’m working with Josh Cooley, who is an incredible writer-director who I adore and have worked creatively with in another capacity. The film doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen before, it looks so cool! The texture of it is so awesome. And because Josh wrote it, it just feels very… I don’t know, it’s got a very dramatic feeling about it. It’s funny, but it’s got so much heart to it like all of his stuff does. I don’t know, I think it’s a different way of approaching this IP. I think it stands on its own, it’s pretty exciting."
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