Anthony Ramostakes the ride of his life inTransformers: Rise of the Beasts.

On Thursday, Paramount Pictures and Skydance released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming movie, which is expected to be thefirst of a planned trilogyafter 2018’sBumblebee.

The sequel — the seventh in the live-actionTransformersfranchise — “will take audiences on a ’90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots” as it introduces “a whole new breed of Transformer, the Maximals, to the existing battle” between Autobots and Decepticons on Earth, according to an official synopsis.

The trailer shows Ramos' character exiting a brand-new Autobot as it transforms from its car form before getting into its Brooklyn-set plot, hinting that “something else has awakened.”

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Anthony Ramos Meets an Autobot in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Trailer

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Old Autobot favorite Bumblebee returns inRise of the Beasts, while the teaser hints at Ramos' character’s interactions with new Transformers and showcases Maximals who take on the appearances of cheetahs, hawks and a rhinos.

During a June 2021 press conference regarding the movie, Ramos said his “head almost exploded off my body” when hefound out the Maximals would be featuredinRise of the Beasts.

“I was like, no one’s ever seen that in aTransformersmovie,” he added at the time. “I read the script and almost threw it across the room.”

The upcoming movie also stars Tobe Nwigwe,Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio, David Sobolov, Cristo Fernández and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, as well asMichelle YeohandPete Davidson, who wereconfirmed to join the film’s voice cast as Transformersin October.

Transformers: Rise of the Beastsis in theaters June 9.

source: people.com