Movie News!!

[Shanti418]

Don was feeling generous to those horrible peons who huddle around him looking for scraps, so he answered 13(really 14) questions they had about the movie.

http://www.d13satellite.com/donmurphy/s ... enumber=12

Or, if you want the abbreviated version (yes, some of these are already common knowledge):
1) 'Some' of the Transformers DO arrive in pre-historic times
2) Optimus Prime WILL have his traditional look as a cab-over semi
3) If the movie were made as the script is right now, it would NOT be over 2 hours long (following the page=minute rule)
4) Soundwave IS in the movie with a more conventional alt-mode
5) There will be NO Dinobots in this movie
6) Bludgeon is NOT in it
7) NO characters remain with a Cybertonian alt-mode
8 ) Megatron WILL be a tank
9) A gestalt does NOT make an appearance
10) Soundwave WILL have minions
11) MORE than 4 Autobots and Decepticons appear
12) NO one on this forum has guessed what Soundwave's alt-mode will be yet
13) Transformers identified by name DO die
14) Nick Stahl could play a part


Also, here's another relevant post from John Roger's blog:

What no one is REALLY getting is that this film is NOT entirely what you are expecting.
We are NOT doing a cartoon.
We are NOT doing CGI.
We ARE doing a real live action film with CGI in it.
It IS an origin film.
You will get many injokes and you will love the characters and the action.
John does NOD to the comics and the series
BUT it is designed to make $400 million which means people will groove on it who have never heard of TF before and think that you guys are cool for liking TF.

Additionally, Rogers said earlier on Don's board that Rachet will NOT be an ambulance, but more akin to a fire truck or one of "those trucks that help people and ****," as Don puts it.

Hey, has s*** always turned into **** when you put it on the board? huh.

[BB Shockwave]

Ratchet as a firetruck... Why, oh why? Ambulances are not politically correct?

I'm worried no-one asking about Shockwave. Don propably thinks of him as "the other Soundwave guy, without the funny voice".

And, let me guess... Soundwave will be a toaster! With Toastvage and Butterbeak!

[Señior's Covenant]

I really want to get over it. I want to tell myself it's no big deal and just try and enjoy the fact there will be A Transformers movie that is live-action/cgi. But I just can't get over the fact it seems a bit unfair. Namely to the diehard fans. I don't think, quite ******* honestly, that it is too much to ask in regards to having such a film (naturally to be a series of films) made as a close adaptation of the original comic continuity as acceptable (which is well worth the effort) rather than just a generalized adaptation of Transformers period, designed to make top dollar from the masses and give nothing but "nods" to the solid comics (much like the cartoon got at every turn during the DW saga).

Am I bitter?

*Sigh*

[Shanti418]

Yes, yes you are.

I like Nick Stahl, though.

[spiderfrommars]

I don't. Well, he was a bit bland in T3 anyway.

Everything else looks fine to me so far. If anyone ever thought Bludgeon was ever going to be in this movie they were probably on hard drugs.

[Guest]

What no one is REALLY getting is that this film is NOT entirely what you are expecting.
We are NOT doing a cartoon.
We are NOT doing CGI.
We ARE doing a real live action film with CGI in it.
It IS an origin film.
You will get many injokes and you will love the characters and the action.
John does NOD to the comics and the series
BUT it is designed to make $400 million which means people will groove on it who have never heard of TF before and think that you guys are cool for liking TF.

Interesting that the only sentence that doesn't suffer from capital emphasis is also more of a command than a statement.

[Optimus Prime Rib]

I was wondering if I was the only one that saw that

[Shanti418]

I'm just excited that people will think I'm cool for liking TF. I think that's truly what's been missing in my life for all these years.

[Emperor_Starscream]

soundwave is not a cassette player....then his minions are no more cassettes, so what will be them?

well i hope this movie will be a good one

[Best First]

I'm just excited that people will think I'm cool for liking TF. I think that's truly what's been missing in my life for all these years.

That was desperate punt on hispart wasn't it?

[spiderfrommars]

I think, worryingly, thats what the people on his board crave more than anything else.

[Darth Aux]

I think, worryingly, thats what the people on his board crave more than anything else.

Nope, I'm already cool. I just have what my friends call "A geeky side" that is my TF collection and comic books.

But hey, it's rubbing off, my mate bought a Decepticon logo T-shirt.

I didn't feel so bad about my TF stuff after I stopped using the "I use them as references for my art work" excuse.

[Metal Vendetta]

Since I repaired the broken screen on my mp3 player and repainted the outside, I added a faction symbol and I now refer to it exclusively as "The Decepticon". I believe I'm approaching the need for help right now.

...tho' what a Decepticon would be doing carrying my GF's Kylie mp3s around is beyond me...

[Brendocon]

...tho' what a Decepticon would be doing carrying my GF's Kylie mp3s around is beyond me...

Diabolical new scheme for world domination?

I mean, if Kylie can take over the world through music, why can't the Decepticons?

Hang on - I think I've just come up with a cartoon episode... the Decepticons as pop stars! Or was that an episode of Action Force? Oh, what the hell - nobody'll notice... now to write the blandest script I can...

[Señior's Covenant]

If anyone ever thought Bludgeon was ever going to be in this movie they were probably on hard drugs.

*Reads*

*Gets it*

*Slides bag of unidentified substance off to the side with foot*

*Is still bitter*

I'm just excited that people will think I'm cool for liking TF. I think that's truly what's been missing in my life for all these years.