Is there a new Transformers movie or what?

byngdavid · Post by **byngdavid** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:52 am

I heard there was a new transformers movie and I don't even know what it is going to be about could any of you guys give me an update?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:40 am

Sure. I think I've forgotten a few things tho.

Michael Bay is directing it.
Don Murphy is the main producer.
It's due out for Thanksgiving 2006.
The first draft of the script was written by John Rodgers.
There's to be about 7 characters of each side in it max.
Of which we know Prime, Megatron, Ratchet and Soundwave are in it (right?)
Ratchet will be a fire-truck rather than an ambulance.
Megatron will not be a handgun.
They want Cullen and Welker to do voices.
They haven't really started making it yet.

John Rodgers is actually pretty cool. He has a blog here
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/

Don Murphy...not so cool. He has a board dedicated to the movie here.
http://www.d13satellite.com/donmurphy/f ... &forumid=8
There Be Dragons.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:42 am

It's currently in pre-production so there isn't much to say.

Produced by Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Tom Desanto (X-Men), possibly directed by Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, The Rock, Bad Boys). Executively produced by Steven Spielberg.

Rumours are of a smallish cast of original G1 characters, most with new alt. modes.

Written by John Rogers (Catwoman) and those two chaps who wrote The Island.

edit - Kingy got there first.

maximized · Post by **maximized** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:39 pm

KingMob wrote:Ratchet will be a fire-truck rather than an ambulance.
.

Actually, I believe that he is supposed to be one of those red fire station ambulances, but not an actual fire truck.

Jetfire1138 · Post by **Jetfire1138** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:18 am

i just hope it dosent suck

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:30 pm

Jetfire1138 wrote:i just hope it dosent suck

I'm quite sure it'll look nice, anyway.......

and you can always take an I-pod with the full-feature soundtrack from TF:TM and listen to that while you watch the new film

FlowBizkit · Post by **FlowBizkit** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:32 pm

hi guys!
Are you talkin about a real movie? - i mean it won't be an animation movie.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:12 pm

FlowBizkit wrote:hi guys!
Are you talkin about a real movie? - i mean it won't be an animation movie.

Well, it won't be real either - unless they've found some way of building a load of giant shape-changing robots to film.
It's supposed to be live-action, ie. real, humans and backgrounds (for the most part) and CGI created Transformers. Although I'd imagine the Autobots' car modes will be real vehicles most of the time - like if a human is interacting with them. Or a stunt driver is hidden under the seats for that 'self-driven' look.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:07 am

FlowBizkit wrote:hi guys!
Are you talkin about a real movie? - i mean it won't be an animation movie.

If you can call anything directed by Micheal Bay a real movie

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:11 pm

You sir, are a comedy genius.
And it's funny 'cos it's true.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:19 pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/fullcredits#writers

Where's Don's name?

Has someone been telling porkies?

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:47 am

Rebis wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/fullcredits#writers

Where's Don's name?

Has someone been telling porkies?

Surley he couldn't of lied about his involvment for this long without someone picking it up. Maybe the the nice peopler at IMDB hate him as well, and this is their way expressing that! Is he missing from the credits of anything else he produced?

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:07 pm

Rebis wrote:Where's Don's name?

HURRAH! Karma!

Or... prediction?

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:14 pm

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:04 pm

Seeing as it's a good place to post it...

Thanks to Nevermore from TFA:

http://www.d13satellite.com/donmurphy/s ... eadid=4977

The writers of the script (or is it next version of script based on Rodgers wrote?) decided to go to Mission Impossible 3 instead.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:42 pm

Ozz wrote:The writers of the script (or is it next version of script based on Rodgers wrote?) decided to go to Mission Impossible 3 instead.

Lame

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:43 pm

Very. And I still believe TF will be shelved before long.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:19 pm

hopefully it will get canned and a deent producer will pick it up.

I mean seriously, cant he keep some script writters..

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:53 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:I mean seriously, cant he keep some script writters..

If you were one, would you want to work for him?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:07 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:hopefully it will get canned and a deent producer will pick it up.

Or maybe we'll get an even worse one, or one that has no intention to communicate in any way with the fans, remember, Murphys board is pretty much experimental, I don't think anyone else might do that.

Some of the tf-community will no doubt feel that it's for the best..

I don't want delays. NO. If we get another producer he might be a toddler in inexperience and a mayor in ineptitude. I say the mayhaps a list for Steven Spielberg with good and FEASABLE producers is the way to go, should such horror as f**king development-hell take it.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:12 pm

Something I've been noticing though, and that imdb listing only furthers it; When Murphy first came along he made it feel like this was his baby and he was doing all he could to get all involved really on the boat with what the fans spewing at his website were all about. Now it's been mentioned on his site (that I've seen) he's one of those co-producers, and apparently he's not even notable on the chain to be a mentioned link. Makes sense how he's downplaying how much affect those at his board are really having nowadays.

Hmm...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:54 pm

Scraplet wrote:
Rebis wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/fullcredits#writers

Where's Don's name?

Has someone been telling porkies?
Surley he couldn't of lied about his involvment for this long without someone picking it up. Maybe the the nice peopler at IMDB hate him as well, and this is their way expressing that! Is he missing from the credits of anything else he produced?

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=don%20murphy;s=nm

Which one's him?

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:08 pm

Well, Don Murphy(III) is the producer, and he's got this little tidbit in his bio:

Notable TV Guest Appearances

1. "HBO First Look" playing "Himself" in episode: "From Hell" 2001

So yeah, that's a dead give away.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:17 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Well, Don Murphy(III) is the producer, and he's got this little tidbit in his bio:
Notable TV Guest Appearances

1. "HBO First Look" playing "Himself" in episode: "From Hell" 2001
So yeah, that's a dead give away.

Only if you're familiar with him...

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:05 am

Yeah, but see, the joke was that he was playing himself in something called "From Hell", i.e. he's from Hell and that's why we all don't like him and why he's an ass.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:55 am

From what gossip I've picked up about this, Murphy is apparently in dispute with the imdb somehow, I'd imagine any errors in his entries are probably connected to that.

These writers off to work on the script for the next Church of Scientology recuritment drive, um, I mean MI movie, are working on Rodger's initial draft of the movie, ASFAIK. It's entirely normal to work up a script from original draft several times in order to get the finished work, I thought.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:37 am

Something happened. I remember his old imdb entry's boards were getting lots of trolling.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:07 am

A bit of delay, but no big deal:

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news ... s_id=16944

Delays On Transformers' Production Line

But it's all still pretty much on track(s)
12 July 2005
There's been a few worried geeks online over the past couple of weeks. No, not your average conspiracy theorists, but movie geeks. Movie geeks of a certain age – that generation that grew up with Transformers. Because no sooner had it been announced that their second favourite toy franchise (after Star Wars figures, of course) was about to get a live action movie of its very own – to be directed by, for once, the perfect choice of Michael Bay – than pesky rumours started to creep in, that maybe it wasn't going ahead after all.

Well, fear not. Not much, anyway. The good news to come out of the US press junket for Bay's The Island, is a clearing of the air in regards to the order of events.

See, Transformers is being written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Bay is tipped to direct, with Steven Spielberg as executive producer. Any diehard TV junkie will tell you that Kurtzman and Orci also wrote a great deal of Alias for the show's creator, JJ Abrams – who's now directing Mission: Impossible 3. And guess who wrote that script? Correct. So their duty is first and foremost to go to Rome and oversee the fine-tuning of that project.

Which of course means a delay to Transformers, you see? But it's not sounding like the family sci-fi adventure is fading beyond the horizon. In fact, they gave a good outline as to what the essentials of the story are going to be. "We sat down with Steven Spielberg, and we said that the action scenes in this movie are a given, but he said that that it's the story of a boy and his car and that he wants to bring back the old Amblin movies. It's Back To The Future …great! We're in!"

And so are we, as long as it doesn't involve the most annoying character in the cartoon series – Bumblebee (the yellow Volkswagon bug who, if you remember the character sheets on the back of the toys had a 10 rating of 'courage' but was **** in every other respect, making him and his owner the emotional core of every episode, dammit). We were delighted not to hear the B word used in the current script's lineup: ""The staple characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Jazz… there's going to be ten Transformers in that movie, and if that's not enough, you can go see 2, 3, 4 or 5."

Ahhh, the modern age of making blockbusters raises the prospect of sequels before we've even begun. Orci added "The meat and potatoes are going to be in there, we're just missing the premise for the sequels." One at a time, lads, one at a time…

Bay himself is still yet to sign on the dotted line, and wouldn't be held to any promises, but did confirm that designing for the project was already underway.

So you see? It's still looking good. There's got to be an order to these things. Just keep watching the ad that seems to have started it all and believe like the central character in an 80's Spielberg movie…

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:13 am

Here's Murphy's reaction to similat article:

http://www.d13satellite.com/donmurphy/s ... eadid=4993

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:50 am

"but he said that that it's the story of a boy and his car and that he wants to bring back the old Amblin movies. It's Back To The Future …great! We're in!"

WTF!!! Now I'm confused.

This is gonna be a like an episode of the cartoon where all you see is bumblebee, Spike and all his human buddies, and the Autobots turn up at the end to save them.....

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