Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback just got their driver's licences to star in 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'

Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback will be taking on the Beast Wars: Transformers storyline from the late 1990s in the upcoming film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

The title was announced by producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and director Steven Caple Jr. on Tuesday during a virtual event for Paramount Pictures.

The new film will be returning to the action and spectacle that first captured moviegoers around the world 14 years ago with the original Transformers.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

The new movie will incorporate two new human characters who are based in Brooklyn, New York. Elena, played by Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah), is an artifact researcher who keeps having credit for her work stolen by her boss and Noah, played by Ramos (In The Heights), an ex-military electronics expert who lives with his family in Brooklyn.

Fishback and Ramos are both from Brooklyn and they revealed that they had to get their driver's licence recently to work on this film.

"I'm supposed to learn how to drive on a Transformers film. I don't know how to drive. That's some authentic New York for you. I'm looking forward to all of those things," Fishback said.

"I literally got my licence for this movie a couple of weeks ago for this film. I'm serious and I wish I was lying," Ramos revealed.

“I’m playing…an intelligent artifact researcher who works at a museum,” Fishback said. “She’s trying to get a leg up in life but her boss keeps taking credit for the work she’s done, so she’s trying to look for a way to step out and be on her own.”

Ramos said that his character serves as a father figure to his brother. “He’s all about taking care of the people he loves,” Ramos said. “[He comes] from a lower-income home, so Noah’s always hustling.”

The She's Gotta Have It star said that Noah is "amazing with electronics."

“The one thing I love about Noah is his tenacity and his heart, and his will to never quit, in spite of all the crazy things life is throwing at him,” Ramos said. “Then, it’s amazing to see his journey when we venture out into the world, when the humans meet bots and things start to happen and sh*t gets real."

Ramos said that there's no other Transformers movie like Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

"There was two things in the script that almost took me out. I read the script and just threw it across the room," he said with excitement, explaining that he used to watch Beast Wars as a kid.

The seventh Transformers film will also be shot in Peru for five weeks, but Caple Jr. says it will probably "take five weeks to bring the equipment up Machu Picchu," an ancient Incan ruins. 

The film will draw from the animated Beast Wars: Transformers series which focused on robots who transform themselves into animals instead of the vehicles in the other Transformers films.

Audiences will be introduced to Optimus Primal, who is a different character from Optimus Prime. Optimus Primal can transform into a gorilla and is the leader of the animal transformers.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts arrives in theatres June 24, 2022.