Longtime fan-fave Autobot Hot Rod is finally getting his live-action debut in Transformers: The Last Knight.
In the original animated movie, Hot Rod acquires the Matrix of Leadership (first introduced in the live-action movies with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) from Optimus Prime which transforms him into Rodimus Prime – the new leader of the Autobots.
Transformers: The Last Knight opens in U.S. theaters on June 23, 2017, followed by the Bumblebee spin-off on June 8, 2018, and Transformers 6 on June 28, 2019.
As his name would indicate, Hot Rod’s a young character who’s a little too brash and overconfident, and was first introduced to America in The Transformers: The Movie (1986).