Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback had been dreaming about writing something together for a few years. The two actors, both native New Yorkers, would meet up from time to time and talk about what it could be. They knew that it would have to be “epic” and “so Brooklyn.” But they would have never predicted that their first chance would come in the form of a “Transformers” movie.
“We had no idea it would be this epic and this Brooklyn,” Fishback told The Associated Press, sitting beside Ramos, her friend and “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” co-star in Las Vegas last month.
They’d made the journey to attend CinemaCon, a convention of the world’s theater owners to help drum up buzz for the new film that debuts June 9. Though technically the seventh “Transformers” movie, “Rise of the Beasts” is both a franchise prequel, set in 1994, and sequel to 2018’s “Bumblebee,” which was set in the 1980s.
