5 Facts about Nelson Shin's 1986 toy based film Transformers: The Movie starring Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles and Robert Stack
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TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE (1986)
Directed by Nelson Shin.
In the future year of 2005 Autobots and Decepticons are still battling an eons long civil war. Shortly after the Decepticon leader Megatron gains a significant victory for his side however, a new, apocalyptic menace threatens to consume all life in the galaxy. Having undergone a transformation and now calling himself Galvatron, will he be able to unleash the power of the Autobot Matrix of Power in time to save his beloved planet Cybertron? |
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5. Hollywood legend Orson Welles provided the voice of the villain, Unicron. It was to be his final film role, dying of a heart attack only days after recoding was completed. It was also the final film of Scatman Crothers, who voiced the Autobot Jazz.
4. In Germany the film was billed as Transformers: The War for Cybertron.
3. The British release of the film includes a Star Wars style scroll of text at the beginning of the movie accompanied by a narrator. It also ends with a voice reassuring viewers that ‘Optimus Prime will return’.
2. Universally panned by critics upon its release, the film failed to return its estimated $6 million budget. However it is believed that its cult status has since earned the film a small profit via DVD and other releases.
1. Leonard Nimoy voices Megatron’s upgraded version Galvatron, essentially replacing Frank Welker in the role. Welker however stood in for Nimoy as the voice of a screaming baby Spock in the film Star Trek III (1985). Nimoy would return to the Transformers universe in 2011, voicing a character in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
5. Hollywood legend Orson Welles provided the voice of the villain, Unicron. It was to be his final film role, dying of a heart attack only days after recoding was completed. It was also the final film of Scatman Crothers, who voiced the Autobot Jazz.
4. In Germany the film was billed as Transformers: The War for Cybertron.
3. The British release of the film includes a Star Wars style scroll of text at the beginning of the movie accompanied by a narrator. It also ends with a voice reassuring viewers that ‘Optimus Prime will return’.
2. Universally panned by critics upon its release, the film failed to return its estimated $6 million budget. However it is believed that its cult status has since earned the film a small profit via DVD and other releases.
1. Leonard Nimoy voices Megatron’s upgraded version Galvatron, essentially replacing Frank Welker in the role. Welker however stood in for Nimoy as the voice of a screaming baby Spock in the film Star Trek III (1985). Nimoy would return to the Transformers universe in 2011, voicing a character in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
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