Turns out the Transformers One title and the origin plan has been around for quite a while as I found two references to it in the site archives going back to 2015 and 2017. It was just so long ago that I completely forgot about it. Suffice it to say, this has been a movie literally eight years in the making.
No explanation on what the "One" part means but guessing part of it is a reference to the "Generation One" label that is used to zero in on the 1980s version of the characters in toys, cartoons, and comics. The story is set millions of years ago entirely on Cybertron, before the Transformers civil war started when Optimus Prime and Megatron were young and friends rather then enemies. Sentinel Prime in the Bay movies was a mentor of Optimus that betrayed him. In the IDW comics continuity, he was the leader of the planet who turned his position into a dictatorship who would tolerate no dissent. A leadership that was stopped by Megatron and Orion Pax working together. Pax succeeds him as the next Prime, named Optimus Prime. At this point I suspect the Bay film continuity will have little influence on the film story while the comics may provide inspiration but likely the story will go in a different and simplified direction compared to the IDW stories. Alpha Trion is essentially the wise old teacher with great advice, who seems to know everyone and everything who took a particular shine to Orion Pax. Elita, also called Elita-1 in the comics and cartoon universes, is the girlfriend of Orion Pax/Optimus Prime. There is way more to her story then that but I suspect that will be the core purpose of the character in the movie.
No explanation on what the "One" part means but guessing part of it is a reference to the "Generation One" label that is used to zero in on the 1980s version of the characters in toys, cartoons, and comics. The story is set millions of years ago entirely on Cybertron, before the Transformers civil war started when Optimus Prime and Megatron were young and friends rather then enemies. Sentinel Prime in the Bay movies was a mentor of Optimus that betrayed him. In the IDW comics continuity, he was the leader of the planet who turned his position into a dictatorship who would tolerate no dissent. A leadership that was stopped by Megatron and Orion Pax working together. Pax succeeds him as the next Prime, named Optimus Prime. At this point I suspect the Bay film continuity will have little influence on the film story while the comics may provide inspiration but likely the story will go in a different and simplified direction compared to the IDW stories. Alpha Trion is essentially the wise old teacher with great advice, who seems to know everyone and everything who took a particular shine to Orion Pax. Elita, also called Elita-1 in the comics and cartoon universes, is the girlfriend of Orion Pax/Optimus Prime. There is way more to her story then that but I suspect that will be the core purpose of the character in the movie.
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