Fans Make Their Feelings Clear On The Transformers One Trailer

Everyone forgets that he's not Optimus Prime yet. He's Orion Pax

What nobody realizes that Orion prime when he gets turned into Optimus prime, he was rebuilt before he gets the mantle. He is a different robot so he would have a different voice.

Some clarification: Peter Cullen wasn’t recast. Peter Cullen has simply never voiced Orion Pax before, only Optimus. They used a different, younger sounding VA for Orion back when he was used in the G1 cartoon. Besides, from all that I’m hearing, it sounds like Peter Cullen will be in Transformers: One, but only when Orion becomes Optimus Prime.

To be fair, when Orion says “On three! One, two…”, Chris does sound like Peter Cullen.

It makes sense. He was Orion Pax and then became Optimus Prime. He "grew up", so to speak. So yeah, he'll have a different voice.

“This looks fine, but man is it weird to hear Peter Cullen not voice Optimus Prime.” Neil Kaplan: Robots in Disguise (2001). Gary Chalk: Unicron Trilogy. David Kaye: TF Animated. John Bailey: Combiner Wars & Several Ads. Dick Terhune: Cyberverse. Jake Tillman Foushee: War for Cybertron Trilogy. Alan Tudyk: Earthspark. I know Peter is the most well known Optimus Prime, and the ideal voice for most. But it’s not like he’s the only actor who’s ever voiced Optimus for 40 years. At this point, we should definitely be used to hearing Optimus be voiced by someone else, as nowadays Peter only voices Optimus for the live action movies. Last time we saw him as cartoon Optimus was the Power of the Primes mini-series way back in 2018.

As much as I love Peter as Prime, he never was the only actor to voice the iconic Autobot leader

Okay but when they went back in time to meet orion pax (in the comics i think) they didnt even recognize him as optimus prime because his voice was so different. It makes sense that Peter Cullen isnt voicing him

IT'S MEGATRONS VOICE THAT'S THE PROBLEM

People have to remember that these are the "Young" versions of the cybertronians. Where Orion is not yet given the title of Prime, and where D-16's jealousy slowly led to his tyranny earning him the name Megatron.

I love it Cheis Hemsworth has done in my opinion a wonderful job of being young Optimus Prime we were introduced to Optimus when he was already weathered and aged I think Chris Hemsworth voiced young hopeful Optimus and did a damned good job at it. You can hear what will eventually become the Optimus we all know and love I'm glad they chose another voice to do the younger version

He fits pretty well for Orion Pax, I do hope Peter Cullen can come in after he becomes Optimus though. Genuinely my favorite voice actor

I couldn’t even tell it was him he sounds completely different in an American accent

This doesn’t surprise me that they had someone else voice Orion Pax. I mean, in the original cartoon, when the Ariel Bots got transported back to the Golden Age of Cyberstron, Orion Pax was voiced by someone else. And Elita One who was Ariel back then, was voiced by the actor who played Jem in Jem and the Holograms

Just call it twitter. No one uses “X”

They should have gotten Dick Terhune, who voiced Optimus in video games and animated cartoons. He's fantastic

I don't need Optimus Prime to sound like Peter Cullen, I just need Optimus Prime to sound like Optimus Prime. Chris is doing a really good job.

As jarring as it is at first, keeping in mind just how long the Autobot-Decepticon war was, and that we are starting a great deal of time before that, with Orion Pax not Optimus Prime, I find it believable that Optimus’ voice could have easily changed over time. After fighting to free Cybertron, then millions of years of warfare, during which countless friends and comrades have been lost in the war, carrying the burden of command, leadership, not to mention injuries he may have suffered as well, having his voice change with time is not inconceivable. Just like I don’t expect Kup from G1 to have sounded the same as he did in the 1986 Animated Film, as he would have when he was a young and inexperienced Autobot.

It is weird to not have peter cullen as prime, BUT, this is a LONG tine before any of peter cullens work in the timeline, so it makes sense to me

Does people ever just let Peter Cullen be? Hes already in his 80s give him a break, and in addition we aren't looking at Optimus Prime, we are looking at Orion Pax.