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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 9, 2009 13:11:24 GMT
It is the year 2013.
Michael Bay has turned down Transformers 4 in favour of "Armageddon 2: When Meteors Fall Out of Fridge Doors and Land on Chihuahuas". Hasbro and Paramount need a new director, new writers and a new origin for the Transformers.
As Transformers fans, the powers that be have turned to YOU to guide them. They need advice on which director to hire, which writers to employ and a decent plot that reveals the origin of the Transformers.
What are your suggestions?
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Post by Nigel on Oct 9, 2009 17:49:12 GMT
Actually, my suggestion would be not to make any more once Bay has finished. Rather, leave it a few years then start a new Transformers film "franchise" from scratch.
This is something that I thought back when the first film was released (and have never got around to posting about), seeing the box office response and its technical achievements: Transformers achieved the cinematic stature of the likes of Superman and Batman (if not necessarily the same stature as the source material), whereby once the current "franchise" has run its course, then in time it would return to the cinema in a new form. (Blimey, that was a long sentence.)
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 9, 2009 18:11:10 GMT
Whether it's a re-boot like Batman Begins or the same continuity, I think that a film called 'Transformers: Origins' should definitely, definitely _not_ a be a flashback film _showing_ the Transformers' origins. It should be a present-day, Earth-based _search_ for the truth as to the Transformers' origins, with all kinds of theories and beliefs being posited, evidence and arguments for and against different theories, and so on. It should leave the audience arguing with each other about what they reckon was the truth when they leave the cinema.
Everything from Primus/Unicron to naturally evolving gears and cogs, from nanobots to the theory that they are not from another planet at all but built by humans and programmed to believe they are from another planet, should have a place in this film.
Dunno about writers and directors, though. I struggle to think of a film I like which has such a mystery plot as I've just described. (The way I've described it, it sounds more like the pitch for a hook-the-audience-and-drag-it-out-for-five-years-and-then-make-up-a-resolution-when-you-get-cancelled TV series, which is not what I want at all.)
Martin
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Oct 12, 2009 10:03:42 GMT
Everything from Primus/Unicron to naturally evolving gears and cogs, from nanobots to the theory that they are not from another planet at all but built by humans and programmed to believe they are from another planet, should have a place in this film. Don't forget the Quintesson origin and the Beast Machines one! And what the hell, let's throw in the GoBot-esque one IDW hinted at. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2009 12:17:35 GMT
maybe sam gets teleported into the distance past, and is revealed to actually be Optimus  |
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