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Paramount has found the next hapless hero doomed to try to follow in the shoes of the immortal Cade Yeager, as
Deadline reports that Anthony Ramos has signed on to star in one of the studio’s upcoming
Transformers films. Probably still best known for his co-starring role in the original Broadway cast of
Hamilton, Ramos’ most recent major role was in the still-delayed
In The Heights. Now, he will take on his true destiny: Staring at a ping pong ball and pretending that it’s a giant robot who is also a dinosaur that is also somehow a car.
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We love a found family story around these parts especially if the family also happens to be giant robots that can turn into trucks.
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Hasbro has announced a new partnership between its Entertainment One studio and Nickelodeon to release a brand new
Transformers animated series. Unlike the recent fare like Netflix’s
War for Cybertron trilogy which has presented a darker, G1-inspired take on the canon for older fans this new show seems much more in line with series like
Transformers Animated or
Robots in Disguise: a light-hearted action-comedy take on Optimus and pals.
Or maybe not Optimus and pals, specifically: interestingly, the show isn’t a retelling of the classic Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Deadline reports that the series is about a group of a new kind of Transformer that seeks to find their place in the world, whether that world be Earth or Cybertron, after being adopted by a human family.