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Hot Rod to appear in Transformers: The Last Knight

August 4, 2016 by Ricky Church

As production continues on Transformers: The Last Knight, Paramount Pictures has confirmed another new face to the franchise and its a name longtime Transformers fans will well recognize. Hot Rod, the rambunctious and rebellious young Autobot, has been revealed as a member of the cast in what seems to be a repainted deco of Bumblebee.

Hot Rod was first introduced in the animated Transformers: The Movie in 1986 and voiced by The Breakfast Club‘s Judd Nelson. He’s high spirited, but too quick to action as proven when his meddling allowed Megatron to deliver a fatal blow to Optimus Prime. By the end of the movie, however, Hot Rod was revealed to be The Chosen One, destined to destroy Unicron and took up the mantle of Rodimus Prime. Despite wearing the Prime moniker, fans never really took to Hot Rod or Rodimus as the G1 series continued, mostly due to the fact he inadvertently killed Optimus.

As Optimus searches for his ‘creators’ and rumours swirling that Unicron will be the big bad of the movie, are we going to yet again see Optimus die and another Prime take his place?

SEE ALSO: Optimus Prime faces a new enemy in billboard art for Transformers: The Last Knight

The Transformers: The Last Knight cast is confirmed to include the return of Transformers: Age of Extinction star Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, Josh Duhamel as Lieutenant Colonel Lennox, Tyrese Gibson as Robert Epps, as well as a new role for Isabela Moner (100 Things to Do Before High School, Growing Up Fisher) as the film’s female lead, Izabella. Jerrod Carmichael, Laura Haddock and Santiago Cabrera also have roles, with Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, Thor) playing an unspecified role. Returning Transformers are so far Optimus, Bumblebee and Drift with newcomers Sqwueeks and now Hot Rod while the Deciptons have Megatron (apparently now abandoning the Galvatron name), Barricade and Onslaught.

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Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Michael Bay, Transformers, Transformers: The Last Knight

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