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Dylan O’Brien Voices Bumblebee in Upcoming Film

December 3, 2018 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
Bumblebee Transformers

Dylan O’Brien is the voice of the titular character in the upcoming Bumblebee film. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told IGN in a new interview that O’Brien (The Maze Runner, American Assassin) will provide the voice of the Autobot, who is speaking under his own power for the first time in the live-action franchise. O’Brien is part of a voice cast that includes Hailee Steinfeld, Pamela Adlon, John Cena, Stephen Schneider, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Jason Drucker, Kenneth Choi, Ricardo Hoyos, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Grace Dzienny, Angela Bassett, and Justin Theroux. It releases on December 21st, 2018.

“Dylan has that great quality in his voice of youthful exuberance, and also sort of trustworthiness,” di Bonaventura said. “I think those are the two qualities that we wanted Bumblebee to have…Since we were approaching this as an origin story, we felt that it was appropriate that you got to hear his voice, that’s the simple logic that we employed. The longer term implication of that is different. But the short-term implication of that is, since we really are resetting the mythology, essentially, of who Bumblebee is. And so, that seemed to us to be the appropriate, to get the chance to hear what he sounds like.”

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.