TRANSFORMERS 8: RISE OF UNICRON (2025) — First Trailer
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Gal Gadot
Tagline: “Planets have heartbeats. Today, one wakes hungry.”
Transformers 8: Rise of Unicron (2025) raises the franchise to apocalyptic scale with a first trailer that feels less like a sequel and more like an extinction-level event. The footage teases a world where the battlefield is not a city, a continent, or even a planet’s surface—because the planet itself is becoming the enemy.
A World Awakening from Beneath
The trailer opens on a terrifying phenomenon: space-bridge rings flaring across the globe as Earth’s crust begins to deform, sprouting titanic “horns” as if something colossal is pushing outward from within. The implication is immediate and horrifying—Unicron, the planet-eater, is stirring beneath the surface.
Cade Yeager Returns
Pulled back into the fight, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) is forced to confront a threat unlike anything he has faced before. This time, survival depends on more than brute force and Autobot firepower. Cade teams up with Dr. Liora Hale (Gal Gadot), a cyber-linguist decoding a rust-borne prophecy with a chilling warning: save the world that is the enemy.
Autobots vs. Extinction
As the Autobots rally—Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee—the trailer hints at a Decepticon cabal willing to gamble on total annihilation if it means power in the aftermath. The stakes are not victory or defeat. The stakes are whether Earth remains Earth at all.
Trailer Highlights
The trailer delivers a rapid-fire showcase of spectacle and momentum, including:
A desert convoy sequence that flips into triple-changer combat
A low-orbit skydive onto a growing Unicron spire
A neon street chase where Mirage phases through traffic
A cathedral of gears inside Earth’s mantle, where time seems to grind and reality warps
The final tease is the most ominous: the only possible move is to split the “hive-soul” before the world devours itself from the inside out.
Review Impression
Rise of Unicron plays like a metal opera of scale and dread—thunderous visual effects with real weight, needle-drop energy, and fist-pump hero beats. Wahlberg brings grounded grit, Gal Gadot adds cool precision, and Optimus Prime’s oath lands like a battle hymn.
If this trailer is any indication, Transformers 8: Rise of Unicron (2025) aims to deliver the biggest and darkest Transformers event yet—where saving humanity may require fighting the planet beneath their feet.