![]() In terms of Optimus Prime, Cullen highlights that the character is a good example of "leadership, as well as "honour and courage" for children. It's a very rewarding life."Ĭullen also did some work with NASA, specifically the OPSPARC project, the Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge for elementary, middle and high school students. "It's all very special to me when it involves kids and the effect that it has. "We travel together to a lot to these conventions and I look forward to it, because it's just non-stop laughter. ![]() "Working with Frank, that was the beginning of a huge, huge ongoing career," Cullen said. Cullen still celebrates Welker's talent and creativity. Especially with Frank Welker."Ĭullen met Welker on 1979's Mighty Man and Yukk, and the pair have been friends ever since. "It was an opportunity to work with other actors and replenish that absence of performing. "I was a seven-day-a-week, in-front-of-a-microphone for years and it was a story of constant work, and then finally into cartoons, when the cartoons were massive. ![]() there was really no time for for acting in film or television," Cullen said. "In voiceover, it just took off with commercials and movie trailers, cartoons. From the National Theatre School of Canada and summer stock theatre in New York, he also did one-hour radio shows for CBC and television work for the public broadcaster, as well. "I look forward to it always."Ĭullen has an achieved an impressive career going back decades. "It is an opportunity to say thanks," Cullen told Yahoo Canada. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)įew voice actors are as beloved as Montreal-born Peter Cullen, most famously known for voicing Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.Īs the 82-year-old makes his way to Toronto for Fan Expo Canada, Cullen said he feels "honoured" to continue to have the opportunity to meet fans - Canadians in particular - at fandom events. The film arrives in theaters June 9, 2023.Peter Cullen attends Paramount's "Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts" premiere at Kings Theatre on Jin New York City. I've done Rocky with Creed, and you bring the nostalgia that fans want, but also bring something they aren't expecting, and the Terracons are that." The Terracons are a new threat to Optimus Prime, and it's something I pride myself on when entering the franchise. The director added, "We wanted to expand the universe, you have the Autobots and the Decepticons, and I would say my new flair to this is the Terracons. Part of the new news, if you've seen the other movies, you're going to see villains you've never seen before and a lot of elements we've never done before." How do we find a new set of villains and priorities, saving the world is left to the Autobots and in this case the Maximals. We have exhausted I would say the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons. When previously talking about the movie, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said, "We wanted to give the audience a lot of new (elements). The synopsis reads: “Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.” The movie looks like it’s going all out on the action like those previous Michael Bay movies, but I’m not convinced that this is going to tell a great story like Bumblebee, though. A trailer was recently released for the film, which you can watch here. The movie also stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Valez, and Ron Perlmanas Optimus Primal.
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