Josh Cooley & Lorenzo di Bonaventura – Transformers One

Josh Cooley & Lorenzo di Bonaventura – Transformers One

David “Quinny” Quinn headed to the Australian Premiere of TRANSFORMERS ONE for us at IMAX in Sydney and also chatted to Director Josh Cooley & Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura!

Joshua Cooley is an American filmmaker and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the animated films Toy Story 4 (2019) and Transformers One (2024), with the former winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Inside Out (2015), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is an American film producer and the founder and owner of Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing the G.I. Joe and Transformers film series. The films he produced have earned over $7 billion at the box office. Bonaventura also produced such films as Deepwater Horizon (2016), The Meg (2018) Plane (2023) and many more!

TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, TRANSFORMERS ONE features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, with Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.

You can watch the trailer for TRANSFORMERS ONE here and also read our review here.

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