Directed by Steven Caple Jr. the scene was cut from the film because it was too dark.
The leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, voiced by Peter Cullen, is seen fighting one of the Decepticons’ robots called Transit, voiced by John DiMaggio. Although in this movie there are no Decepticons that appear at the end.
Transit appears in one of the deleted scenes as an alternate bus mode. This bus station is also featured in the full movie upon seeing Optimus for the first time in the movie.
The exclusive video posted by IGN also emphasizes the background to the events of the film. A city bus decorated with posters. beverly hills police iii which corresponds to the period of the film. .
removed scene shows their brutal fight at the bus stop, with animations that vary from the beginning to near the end. Some of the rendering and finishing animations look sketchy.
The scene was supposed to end with Optimus Prime killing Transit and throwing him into the Hudson River, where he would join dozens of other Decepticon corpses slain by the legendary Autobots.
Optimus Prime battles the bus-based Decepticon Transit in a newly released scene from Transformers: Rise of Beasts. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. it cut the scene from the finished film after test audiences found it too dark.
Director Steven Caple Jr. in an interview explained that “when we aired it, people were like, ‘Shit, it’s kind of dark.’ It was kind of dark, but I thought this was a movie I wanted to make, but then I started to get Realized that this movie is dark and it feels a little bit darker. So we took that back…”
The scene was eventually cut, but late enough in production that John DiMaggio was still credited as Transit over the end credits.
John DiMaggio is no stranger to the Transformers, having previously voiced Leadfoot in the Transformers: The Dark Side of the Mooncrosshairs on Transformers: Age of Extinction AND transformers: the last knightas well as other characters in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts what is it stratosphere.
