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'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks?
mr_don't writes "Apprently, CNN is reporting that Dreamworks might be in talks with Michael Bay (who directed the bomb Pearl Harbor) to direct a live action Transformers movie. The article says: A November 17, 2006, release date has been set. Bay's credits include the two "Bad Boys" movies, "Pearl Harbor," "Armageddon" and "The Rock." Well, as a child of the 80's I must admit I am interested, but could the movie be directed by Robert Rodriguez instead?"
Why would anyone watch a movie about a giant spool of wire?
I hope Bender gets to play Optimus Prime.
He could be made for that role.
could the movie be directed by Robert Rodriguez instead?
I dunno, Michael Bay could be more than meets the eye...
Looks like someone is inspired...
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After I saw this movie I knew this was going to happen. I just hope it doesn't suck, I'm damn protective of my transformers I had as a kid.
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
I know not reading the article before commenting is a Slashdot tradition, but it's getting a bit much when the submitter clearly hasn't read it.
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Kind of. Transfans have known this to be in the works for a while.. the original projected release date was 2005.. though I doubt that now.
I'm mixed on this.. if its done right, it could be truly awesome...
P.S. Pearl Harbor wasn't a "bomb"--it was a bad movie that did very well at the box office. To suggest that it was a bomb is just plain silly. Pearl Harbor was a plodding movie with a trite script and stilted acting that performed extremely well at the box office thanks to aggressive marketing and some pretty good technical work. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you can go around claiming it failed miserably.)
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Well as long as it looks more like "Bad Boys II" and nothing like "Pearl Harbor" he would be fine for the movie.. but Yes, Robert Rodriguez would be a better choice. Even better would be a CG version from Pixar and Brad Bird!
This movie is going to be fucking expensive. As in reallly really goddamn expensive.
I expect a lot of explosions. Terrible dialogue. An incredibly bad mixture of CGI and reality, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of Air Force One.
All in all, this is a silly prospect. Shouldn't they be working on more interesting things? I'd suggest something but the news of a Transformers live action movie (which isn't really "new news") has left me incapable of thinking on an intelligible level.
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So long as its like The Rock ill be happy...
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Wow, with such a talented director, we can only hope they find a nice, juicy acting role for Sofia Coppola. That would just be the icing on the cake.
That believes that they are going to horibly and completely fuck this up?
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I like Robert Rodriguez, but I don't think he is a good match for transformer. He's better when there's blood to be shed and splattered all over the place. He's all about style and economy. Transformers is all about giant robots doing robot stuff and bashing the hell out of each other.
I'd rather see Michael Jackson, Jerri Curls, and Member's Only jackets make a comeback to remind me how much the 80's sucked. Hardcore punk was the ONLY good thing about the 80's.
I can't see this being decent unless all of the transformers are CGI'd in. Even then...
Personally I think a CGI version should be made. Beast Wars was well done and when they found "the Ark" with the transformers inside I actually felt a tear running down my cheek.
Unforuntately, the latest incarnations of Transformers (Armada, Energon, etc) have ruined it for me. First it became a Pokemon clone only with some big bots collecting small bots to help them fight (gotta catch'em all!). The animation was poor (person stood still in signle frame while energy bolts shot from his arms and shoulders).
I can't see them replicating the coolness of the old movie though. That was just great.
Now we're going to end up with a movie where Megatron finds Unicron and is leading him to Cybertron for lunch and the only concern the Autobots have is whether or not Arcee and Hot Rod are gettin' it on yet. Here's a spoiler: Optimus Prime walks in on them and chases Hot Rod around the oil rig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Metroplex with his rifle.
Recently here in the UK there's been some car commercial (don't know which brand) with a car which transforms into a dancing transformers style robot. It looked so cool that I knew that someone had to exploit it for a movie, yay!
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After Sin City, I hope to hell that all movies from now on are directed by Robert Rodriguez. And they should all star Carla Gugino as the closed-mouthed, naked lesbian.
Michael Bay? Too bad it won't be Lucas. It would crank up the Unintentional Comedy Scale (TM) to 11 to see the actors being more mechanical than the robots.
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You've got be kiddiing. My 5 year old loves the toys, but a movie out of a marketing gimic for cars?
I guess I just never understood the premise of the transformer universe.
So, based on that resume, we can expect the following:
This will be the most incredible movie, EVER!
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The ones I watched when I was in elementary school, which rocked? Or all the lesser generations since which sucked? That, regardless of who is director, is the most important question.
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20 years ago, transformers would have been described as giant robots that transform into other things. Now CNN says they 'morph', depite the face that their name contains in it the word used to describe their shape-changing. What's worse is that the word 'morph' became popular because of the terminator in T-2, where it's used to describe something noticably different from what the transformers do.
I'll never understand the media.
Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
they get the original voice actors....Optimus Prime just wouldn't be the same w/ an imitator.
This has been circulating the net for MONTHS. If you visit any of the transformer sites you can see that they've known about this for a while.
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Why do I say it's been around for months? Because they have already secured the voice of the ORIGINAL Optimus Prime! Not that crappy one on the new cartoons, the ORIGNAL voice. The TRUE voice of Prime !
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Will they update Shockwave? Boomboxes are soooooo 80's...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Disney hasn't made a robot movie so there is nothing to rip-off. This has to be a rumor.
In case you hadn't heard, Robert Rodriguez probably won't be doing many major-studio pictures any time soon. His decision to share directing credit with Frank Miller (and, to a certain extent, Tarantino) forced him to drop out of the Director's Guild of America.
And AFAIK, it works kind of like a union thing, the major studios only hiring directors from the DGA.
Rodriguez will no doubt have little trouble finding work... but expect it to be via indie studios.
Why not get a Japanese director insteaD? all the latest Transformers have been made in Japan and although they arn't fantastic they do already use alot of CGI animation, maybe it's time to push it to the next step and screw Hollywood onm this one.
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Optium s Prime has died of prostate cancer. Perhaps our Autobot heroes will wear blue ribbons for him.
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Ee-er-eh-ah-ooh...
This has the potential to be just like "Sky Captain and the [CGI] World of Tomorrow."
Except instead of ruining a perfectly generic universe, they can ruin one that whole generations of children grew up enjoying.
Sweet!
Because in Transformers, the humans riding in Optimus Prime's cab were always the emotional focus.
That way, we could have the transformers cannibalize people, the bad guy could be a Catholic priest Decepticon, etc. The Autobots can use guns, axes, etc to hack their opponents to death, all while smoking and hanging with prostitutes. I think Optimus Prime would look awesome chopping up a bunch of people in the crotch with an axe while on drugs.
The guy who did spy kids 1-3, The Faculty, From Dusk To Dawn, Desperado? Some claim Sin City didn't suck (I'm not one of them), but all he had to do there was xerox a comic book. Oh, and have Tarantino and Frank Miller around to show him where the copy button is, because he probably can't even use a copy machine correctly. I would say Rodriguez is not a better pick.
Im getting in line at a theater, right now!!
From boxofficemojo.com this is the breakdown:
Pearl Harbor:
Production Budget: $140 million
Est. Marketing Costs: $70 million
Domestic gross: $198,542,554 (44.2%)
+ Overseas gross: $250,678,391 (55.8%)
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= Worldwide gross: $449,220,945
So... it cost $210 million to make and market the film, it took in $450 million from the box office ALONE (not including the millions that selling tv rights brings, DVD/VHS sales, pay-per-view spots), and I'm sure the producers are really crying about this "bomb" - crying all the way to the bank...
If they're going to make live-action movies of popular 80's cartoons, then wouldn't a G.I. Joe movie make a little more sense?
I expect a lot of explosions. Terrible dialogue. An incredibly bad mixture of CGI and reality, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of Air Force One.
Are you one of the fortunate ones who have not seen either of the Star Wars prequels?
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If anybody can make a bad movie not just good, but a masterpiece, it's Quentin Tarantino.
They sign him, and the movie will top the charts.
Come on, why on earth would anyone want to watch a movie about giant robots, except maybe the pokemon-age brats around the world. (heh I used to love pokemon, but the important thing is, I don't anymore!).
...Michael Bay for the pitiful excuse of a movie Pearl Harbor turned out to be. I blame Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett for sucking so bad at acting. For this one need only look to the casting director. Michael Bay is good at directing pure adrenaline fueled action sequences and he'd done three that in my opinion are tough to top; 1) the attack sequence of Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, 2) the car chase between the H1 and teh Ferrari in The Rock, and 3) the F-18 approach/ bombing of Alcatraz in The Rock. Keeping in mind that The Rock never aspired to be the next Citizen Kane, I'd even go as far as to say that it was a pretty decent action movie.
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there will be boobs in this movie.
how can a film - thats going to take a long period of time to make -ever be called "Live" ? Action Movie - yes . But its only "Live" if its happening as you watch it. This is obviously impossible.
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Why is it that people feel the need for something to be "Hollywoodised" in order to somehow proclaim it's greatness to the world. "They should make a movie of this!" Why? Why is it nessesary to transfer something to the big screen? What is it about a movie that will somehow make something better?
Hollywood rewrites tend to be trite compacted affairs, dumbed down for the censors. They almost invariable bastardise and demean the material they base themselves off. Go ahead mention the Lord of the Rings. I have only one thing to say. The Doom movie will not be set on Mars and there will be no hell demons.
This movie will suck. This is not conjecture. This is solid fact. Trying to compress the entire series(es) of transformers into 109 minutes intended to appeal to the lowest common denominator, WILL result in a dissapointment for fans. the very same fans who keep saying "They should make a movie of this!". Let me tell you something. They shouldn't.
Be careful what you wish for.
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... welcome our Transformer overlords.
I think they should have Bender in there somewhere.
...let the guys who did this movie do Transformers!
Apprently? That like the Apprentice mixed with a Bentley?
I wonder if we'll be fortunate enough to hear Spike curse again... (Since he directed "Bad Boys II", I can always hope...)
You're all missing the real issue here.
The submitter used a colon after a verb; clearly, this is the more important issue at hand.
What does this mean?
Did the movie bomb? (Fared poorly at the box office?)
Was the movie da bomb? (Good, eg critically acclaimed?)
Did they bomb pearl harbor? (historically accurate!)
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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I think there is potential emotional resonance focusing on the Jewish one. Some good back-story is a possibility, balancing the life of a transformer with that of an observant Jew, living as a religious minority in an uncaring, unchanging world, observing the horrors of the purging of the Warsaw Ghetto while posing as a lamp post.
Pearl Harbor was a Disney film intended to be a "feel good" romantic yarn about war staring big-name pretty actors and it had, as I recall, a PG or PG-13 label.
A typical Family Guy episode would be rated R if it was in theatres. The MPAA would take one look at Glen Quagmire with a hooker and slap "R" on there.
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"The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots..."
They're called autobots and decepticons, dumbasses!!! geez, does no one remember their 80's trivia?
I hope they don't ruin Transformers, but instead, ruin Gobots, which no one has ever seem to care about...
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I hope i don't leave the theater crying like i did for the last Transformers movie when Optimus died.
will any of the bots sport corporate sponsor logos? And if so, will the bots made by Ford blow up spontaenously like defective Fords in real life? The death toll could be even higher than the last Transformer movie if everyone blows up with the slightest bumps during chases and fist fights. Oh the humanity!
is if these guys do all the robotics.
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at least when you go see his movies, you are almost guaranteed to see a bunch of things blowing up, which usually is worth the price of admission for me (yah, yah, yah I have a strong bias towards B quality action movies like Delta Force). For this particular movie, I cannot think of a better director for the job, but I guess we will all wait and see. The guy who I would pick second to Bay to direct this movie would be Roland Emmerich who did Independence Day, Godzilla, the Day After Tomorrow.
If this movie goes anfd uses the dumbass plotlines and moralistic BS from these new cartoons (transformers energon and so on) I swear to god i am gonna bomb cyberton back into the steam age.
According to one of the industry's leading insider websites, the movie has grossed almost 450 million dollars worldwide. That means...
It's number 60 on the ALL-TIME domestic takes, and number FIFTY-TWO all-time worldwide.
But you read on rotten tomatoes that it was a bomb, and you're sticking to it.
John Rogers who wrote the Catwoman screenplay (the first draft at least) is writing the screenplay for Transformers. He has a blog over at Kung Fu Monkey
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I dunno, I just thought this thread felt empty without a narrow-minded and baseless complaint. It happens every time anime is mentioned, why not Transformers?
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I assume I'm not alone in thinking the plot will be:
The TV series followed a variation of that plot every time. Personally, I always thought it sucked when I was a kid.
"Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? Cause Pearl Harbor sucked, just a little bit more than I miss you..."
According to Transformers: The Movie , the Decepticons attack Autobot City in the year 2005. In the assault, Optimus Prime is destroyed, and the Autobots are left in the gravest situation yet.
To make matters worse Unicron is flying around eating planets.
Isn't anybody else worried?
Nowadays with these ultra-blockbuster-super-duper-small-country-sized budgets, what they mean by live action is "We'll have live actors dancing around in front of a blue screen, and absolutely everything else will be computer animated." I mean, it's almost like calling Bakshi's Lord of the Rings films "live action".
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If it looks like this Commercial and has the original characters then I'll watch it.
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"Pearl Harbor," "Armageddon" and "The Rock."
So, we're in for a movie that's either utterly implausable, but pretends to be plausible ("Armageddon", "The Rock"), or one that's completely insipid ("Pearl Harbor").
Combine that director with the "Transformers", and we're about to get a horrible movie that completely ruins the "Transformers" franchise. Step aside, Episode 1.
Robert Rodriguez left the DGA and thus the studio can in all likelyhood not hire him....
Don't forget, Hollywood is a Union Shop.
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Robert Rodriguez quit the Directors Guild of America, which almost assuredly counts him out of a lot of opportunities.
Stupid Hollywood rules.
Where Pearl harbor went wrong was not in the acting. It was the mere fact that the movie was more about a stupid love triangle then it was about the actual attack. If a movie is called Pearl Harbor. It should be about Pearl Harbor. Otherwise call it another lame Michael Bay Movie.
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
Hollywood is raping my childhood!!! AvP, Jason vs Freddy, Star Wars, Terminator... now they go and mess with my after school cartoon with a live action version? What's next a live action G.I.Joe?
Once again I'll get my hopes up and "hope" that this will not be a let down. But I do not expect much from this movie since it will be very difficult to do. It will be likely targeted to kids and make it a G rating, thus making it a tame and actionless flick. Even the original transformers movie wasn't geared towards kids, which made it that much more better.
Note: Spider-man, X-Men, and Hulk were at least not let downs. I also hope that Superman V will not be a let down also.
This guy is totally in luck; the movie producers can certainly use his help!
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As I recall, there are no humans in Transformers. It's all robots that change shapes. What's the "live action" part? Are they planning on building motorized models of the robots?
...from the producers that brought you "Air Guitar"! Starring Timmy as Optimus Prime and his brother as... oh wait... his brother wants to be Optimus Prime, too...
As both a Pixar junkie and a Transformers junkie, I have to say that I can't see any way on Primus' own Cybertron for Brad Bird to ever do a "popcorn movie" based on a licensed property.
He pissed off enough people to get fired from three different studios when he was working "in the system"; I can't imagine the toy-based dictates of Hasbro being any easier to deal with.
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That's a question you should ask YOURSELF, Micheal Bay?
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Not only has he debuted a video with really well done morphs (to be followed by hundreds of pretty bad copycats), but he's a morph himself.
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If the actors can pull it off, this could be an awesome movie.
I hope it looks more like this commercial then Jar Jar.
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I'm sorry, his treatment of Sin City may be nice, but it's because Miller already did the storyboards for him. Anyone who sat through all three Spy Kids movies in the theatres (with my nephew) can give you about 5000 reasons to distrust his direction.
Perl harbor cost $200 million to make, and made back $197 million. Thus, it did not make back a profit. That's the definition of a bomb.
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Actually the news is that Micheal Bay is in talks to direct. That is a brand new revelation. There has not been a director attached until now. For some reason I remember hearing something about Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman), but that was probably just rumors. This however might be the first mention of a TF movie on Slashdot, and for many people, Slashdot is the ONLY stuff that matters.
This is the kind of project Bay was born to direct - with his way over the top frantic action style (such as Bad Boys II bridge car chase scene).
I would prefer to see TA made into a movie, instead of Transformers.
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this... go to http://www.citroen.co.uk. Check out the TV ad for the C4.
... Someone, for the sake of all humanity, kill Michael Bay before he makes movies again.
I mean, how else is he going to be stopped?
Someone needs to tear out his black, oozing, horrible-movie-loving heart and toss into the cleansing fires of Kali.
Did I mention he should die?
(and he should take Uwe Boll with him.)
The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, which believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, the other by Megatron, which espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life.
Sure hope this movie happens, and that it doesn't suck. But I don't expect much.
Why would the CGI be bad? There's plenty of good CGI, and plenty of bad. Not to mention that since most of the possible CGI would be robots, several factors are removed or minimized: No crazy texture maps, and little->no facial expressions. Joints don't have to be seamless. You can see some gap between the arm and wrist for example.
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A live action Transformes movie would be pointlessly expensive and lame.
They would be better off bringing back the original Transformers series using modern animation, and targeting it as scifi for adults rather than a silly cartoon for kids.
The original US Transformers generation 1 series had a more personal, emotional, sci-fi aspect to it than do the modern shows like Transformers Armageddon. Granted, it had its 80's cheese factor (like, how many oil rig workers do you know who wear hard hats all the time on land and write touchy-feely entries in their diary every day?) But it also had better-written dialog and stories that were delivered with a more serious and measured touch.
The newer shows have better animation and dropped the corny 80's feel, but in the process picked up the corny 90's feel and all the horrible attributes of those ridiculous american-anime shows like YuGiOh and DragonballZ: terrible dialog spoken too fast and characters who do nothing but boast stupidly at each other constantly about their superior fighting powers like it's a pissing contest.
If they would just return to the original writing, characters, and story, but do it all using modern animation (maybe CGI), and target it more as scifi for the 20+ crowd instead of as cartoons for kids, then I think they'd really have something.
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I'm wondering if they'd make the following adjustments to the Transformers characters to really make the whole movie more "realistic" and proper to the 21st century:
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Michael Bay is a slick technician, but not the right age for fandom. A Transformers movie isn't really a place for an auteur to provide vision, so it comes down to a good script and a willingness for everyone involved to have a good time.
I give it a 50-50 chance
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The passion around the whole Transfan culture gives me the creeps. These guys make S&M Klingon cosplayers look well-adjusted. I particularly like Tom Franck's take on the lot (scroll down to "NEW GEEK HIERARCHY"). I guess I'll never understand the culture of worshipping toy commericials. Now worshipping TOYS I can understand... >:>
Wow, I hadn't seen that before. Such a movie might not suck after all!
You're not helping any by modding up trolls that are either blatantly lying or are too stupid to get their facts straight.
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They feature the original characters and not some of the newer tosh.
I'd personally be just as happy to see Transformers: The Movie remastered and re-released at the cinema. It would be awesome to watch that on the big screen.
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I'm sure most of us 80's kids watched the Transformers series, Transformers the Movie, and had a few (if not all) the toys. So I would like to ask as a fan of the Transformers, please oh please don't mess this up by moving away from the original story or trying to put people in costumes like they are some kind of Power Ranger robot thing.
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Michael bay and transformers???
Hope he sticks with the cartoons and leave the slow motion flapping american flag on planet earth!
"Live Action" is part animation in just about every movie these days. The "live" actors are starting to be replaced with CG if they need to sneeze. Those of us with CG backgrounds can see it all clearly. Its worse to see a human CG swap for us than to just make the whole thing CG.
I say just make the stuff all animation since people identify with that better, and so what if american adults still don't take animation seriously. Its transformers people! The plot should turn off anyone over 12 anyway.
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You know, it could still be really cool and quite inexpensive...
...if they made it something like this!
plus explosions of course.
oh yes.
you know that one i mean... no no! not the techno-rock theme from the show, that's played out, i'm talking about the old school hair-metal rock ballad!
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Holy shit.
A "live action" movie? That son of a bitch will crater like a Durandal when it hits the theatre. Anything but pure CGI will fail, and it won't even fail spectacularly like Terri Shievo's parents. It will just be a miserable failure like that Super Mario movie.
I'm punching the ignore button on this one.
New! From the director who brought you Pearl Harbor and the screenwriter who brought you Catwoman! It's....your childhood being beaten with a baseball bat. Sigh.
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He's like the mexican equivalent of Quentin Tarantino: independent, very talented, and known for gory, violent movies. Probably moreso than Quentin.
Transformers is a child's cartoon. Do we really want this great old-school saturday morning favorite to become some shoot-em-up action movie? Granted much of the old series was flying around and shooting things, but not with a lot of real "action"; once you got hit you went down but didn't die. It was all very child friendly but cool at the same time.
All i'm saying is a director that's less impressive will do fine for this film. What about the guy who did X-Men? As long as it looks pretty and has tons of CG I don't think you can go wrong with the Transformers.
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your sig is funny. Just thought I'd point out though that while there may not be a "we" in "team," there is a "team" in "team."
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I actually used to have someone that would tell me that stupid little saying. It was annoying crap like that which made me unable to work with him.
The passion around the whole Transfan culture gives me the creeps. These guys make S&M Klingon cosplayers look well-adjusted. I particularly like Tom Franck's take on the lot (scroll down to "NEW GEEK HIERARCHY"). I guess I'll never understand the culture of worshipping toy commericials. Now worshipping TOYS I can understand... :)
Such as the live action dragon ball z movie.
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I expect a lot of explosions. Terrible dialogue. An incredibly bad mixture of CGI and reality, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of Air Force One.
here's the pitch clip that was shown by Dreamworks during the recent discussion with Michael Bay. apparently the studio want the film to be very different from Bay's style, which is good.
I'd rather see Voltron.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The story is a dupe, the topic is boring, the facts weren't checked. WE GET IT!!
This is yet further proof. When there are no more comics/cartoons/TV shows/books to license, tinseltown will collapse under its own gluttonous weight.
While I hope the live action Transformers is cool (read: not suck), I seriously hate Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheiner. All they can direct is a series of improbably explosions linked together by flat dialogue.
I stopped at a store on the way home from work today. Parked next to a BIG black car, no idea what this beast was. It first caught my attention because it was idling and it was LOUD. Second thing that caught my attention was this bumper sticker: "Losing my faith in humanity one person at a time." I got a chuckle out of that.
Got a bigger chuckle when I went back out to my car later and the car was still idling. With a dude leaned up against it talking on his cell phone.
Chuckle #2.
People who lock themselves out of their running cars shouldn't have holier-than-though bumper stickers. >:D
That is why we see movies like Transformers or Doom being made. If Sin City does well and makes a lot of money. I don't think a movie studio is going to give two shits if the director is in a union or not. If they can use him to make money, they will try to.
If they want Rodriguez, the union is not going to stop them.
I do admit that there are people out there that are more interested in making a good movie then money. Although, even when I rent "Finding Neverland" I'm still __FORCED__ to watch a commercial for a Chevrolet Montana Mini Van if i want to watch the movie.
Now, please do not reply how they are not actually coming to my house and tieing me down to the couch to watch it. If they do not let you fast forward or skip beyond a commercial, there intention is to make you watch it.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
The "news" coverage of this movie is fucking ridiculous.
Several names were publicized to have signed on to the project only to sign right back off. Don Murphy's had the message boards up for, what, a year now? And we still know absolutely nothing about this movie except that it's maybe about the TransFormers and C0M1NG S00N!!11 OMGWTFLOLPLZBBQ+1.
Yet everyone, including Slashdot apparently, feels this trememndous need to cry out across the internet about every half sentence of possible rumor like it actually has any bearing on a film that's got a damend good chance of never seeing the light of day to begin with.
Enough is enough. Do the fandom a favor and shut up until something noteworthy actually happens.
Really, the whole Transformers premise and storyline are really thin and childish. If you have the huge bufget and SFX, why not do a great BattleTech epic? Really?
although dreamwork's involvement may be new, I had even put a mention about this 'live action transformers' on my cheap blog of sorts (not linked here) but if ya search yahoo groups, you'll find it anyways, yeah, i love all out war mecha type series, this could be a fun movie ^^ hehe, like herbie with laser rifles oh wait that's weird
Do you read the scripts of movies or what...
Why does yahoo do this
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...over on alt.toys.transformers and rec.toys.transformers.moderated (which I co-moderate) they've known for a long time this was in the offing. As you might expect, fans are split in regards to their responses. Some of them are rather upset given that there will be no size-change transformations, so Megatron and Soundwave (if they're in it) won't resemble their G1 selves very much at all.
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transformers is the only children's show with the balls to off 95% of its' characters in the first movie.
let's see pokemon match THAT!
I hope that Main Frame Entertainment, the company responsible for the CG on Transformers Beast Wars and Beast Machines, will be involved in the project. They did an excellent job on those two series, and I was especially impressed with the work on Beast Wars. Great writing there too.
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...but they'll never take my mute! Or my ability to watch it once, know its length and turn the TV off for the time it takes to get past it. I hate DVD commercials you are forced to watch. Usually I eventually get curious and watch the ones on DVD's that DON'T force me to sit through them.
Maybe its just an Anime fan thing though. ^_^
I have to agree. I have seen some movies where affleck really shined, especially the kevin smith movies. (yes, even chasing amy). There are two big problems with affleck: over-exposure, and a tendency to star in really shitty flicks. I think his buddy matt damon is actually the better acter, but when cast properly both of them can be quite good.
And yeah, pearl harbor should have been more about, well, the whole war thing.
John Gulager to direct GOBOTs, the movie. Expect it to be a "B release."
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Soundwave clicks a button on himself, which then uploads the MP3, "Ravage" to some popular P2P networks, encumbered by DRM.
Lawyers then swarm around Soundwave, destroying anything in their paths.
Yeah, lawyers, not robots. Potatoe, potahto.
Ravage, Upload!
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Live action by today's standards probably means 80% CG rendered.
it will be the crappy rip off movie shown on tv, most likely SciFi channel, but Fox and NBC have both been known to do the same
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
one Transformers movie alone is capable of warping one's childhood?
Can we get Bruckheimer in it, too? I totally loved that Tetris movie he did.
Welcome to last summer. The official announcement made waves last August for crying out loud.
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I hated all of those movies
I didn't know Optimus Prime was Jewish?!?!?!
> the original projected release date was 2005
Not quite. The projected release date has always been 2006. 2005 was just a date picked by the fans to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the first movie. On the web forum, Don Murphy mentions they were shooting for a summer 2006 release. More information on the movie can be found on the TF - The Movie roundup page. If the first movie is successful, they plan for Unicron to make an appearance in the third one.
Though many people do not realise it, over 500 episodes of Transformers have been made in their various incarnations.
Here is a brief rundown of the various Transformer shows that have aired in the last 20 years.
American shows
Transformers Generation 1 TV show (American written show, set during 1985-86 and 2005-06)
2) Transformers Generation 2 TV show (modified version of the G1 series that added an annoying 3D space cube animation.
Japanese only series
Transformers: Headmasters (Japanese). Available as an official or partial fandub.
Transformers: Masterforce (Japanese). Available in official dub or sub-titled versions.
Transformers Victory (Japanese series) Available as an official dub, fan dub, or subtitled.
Transformers Zone (Japanese). Available in subtitled or dubbed versions.
Though transforming robots remained popular in the East, the Transformers line was 'rested' for a few years.
The Beast Era
In 1996 the toy line was relaunched. After the disappointing sales of the Generation 2 series, vehicle modes were abandoned and animal forms introduced. Optimus Primal transformed into a gorilla and Megatron became a dinosaur. The Beast era was set years after the original series 300-1000 years, depending upon your source) and introduced two new factions - the Maximals and Predacons.
Beast Wars - The Autobots and Decepticons are gone and the Maximals and Predacons have made peace. This peace is broken by Megatron (a namesake, not the original), who travels back in time in an attempt to change the course of history. In most episodes he is thwarted by Optimus Primal and a small band of Maximals. The animation shows its age, but it is probably the most intelligently written TF show made (season 2, in particular).
Beast Machines - The Beast Wars are over and the Maximals return to Cybertron. They find that Megatron has captured the sparks (soul) of every Transformer on the planet and created an army of mindless drones called Vehicons. Best remembered for the strong religious overtones, huge explosions and scenes of the Maximals running away.
Japanese Beast series
While the US got the second and third season of Beast Wars, Japan received two spin-off series that focused upon other planets.
Beast Wars 2 (Japanese). Leo Convoy (lion) Vs Galvatron (dragon).
Beast Wars Neo (Japanese) - The Maximal leader, Big Convoy (a wooly mammoth) faces against the evil Magmatron. Unlike earlier Convoy/Prime toys, Big Convoy has a removable matrix in his chest.
Autobots and Decepticons return
Hasbro's initial plan was to create a followup to the Beast Machines series called Transtech. This would feature vehicle TFs with animal moulding. However, it was later abandoned and Hasbro made a deal
The original animated TRANSFORMERS movie was one of the best animated films ever made. If they can surpass that scale in the story told, and do some complex battle sequences that make sense and have a point, this could be good.
I'm reminded of the story that got me interested in Slashdot in the first place. It was years ago, and I saw Slashdot on a friend's computer screen, and there was a story -- like this one -- about plans to make a live action DragonBall Z movie. Me -- still a huge fan of Dragonball Z -- my hopes were raised sky high, and I read the entire discussion, because I'd love a Dragonball Z movie -- especially if WWE's Shaun Michaels were somewhere in the cast.
Anyway, that story was much like this one, and my hopes were raised, but the Dragonball Z live action film was never made.
Slashdot -- you accepted this story about this Transformers movie, so I hope you're not just getting my hopes up again.
Another good live action movie would be about the Thundercats.
"I am a fictional character."
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies...cause Pearl Harbor Sucked, and I miss you.
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silly prospect? F U. its obvious you cant think on an intelligible level.
TRANSFORMERS. MOVIE. AGAIN.YES.
nuff said.
for action and comedy. They were good - if you can stand Martin Lawrence, anyway.
Besides, this is the Transformers. How good can it be? It's a badly conceived, badly animated TV show. So how much worse could it be?
I'm waiting for the live-action GI Joe movie. I like Destro and Storm Shadow and Zartan and of course the wonderful Cobra Commander!
Then I'll wait for the live-action GI Joe-Transformers movie - since that's a comic book now.
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George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino aren't members of the DGA so Rodriguez won't have any issues.
Lucas wasn't even a member when he made Star Wars.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
Crappy rip-off wha!? You mean they made ANOTHER live action movie with sentient machines that transform into vehicles!???
MUST KNOW MORE.
I can't honestly see how on earth it's going to appeal to a large enough demographic to make back the cost of the CGI. It won't use the same characters/visuals as the current kids' cartoon, and the look will be markedly different from the 80s series, not to mention probably rebooting the continuity yet again.
Nostalgia only goes so far.
This is werid...I heard Reports out this movie a long while ago...
And it was meant to be directed by steven spielberg..Strange how its changed.
I dont see anything wrong with the idea of the movie. With CGI graphics they could make realistic transformers.
I dont know if u guys have seen the car advert where the car turns into a transformer type robot and dances....that looks amazing and kinda makes you think how well this film could look
and not a single wise crack about the parent post? I think we've established one fact about /. -- we unanimously love Transformers. =)
Looking at that list of series' almost makes me feel ashamed that I've only watched G1! Worse still, it makes me feel real old, finding out that the movie is 20 years old!!