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Transformers still set to Roll Out in 2005

 

 

Most of the recent information floating around about the Transformers film currently in development sounds like rumors, but there's enough official activity being reported by the producers to get myself and fellow "Trans-Fans" salivating.

 

For those not in the know, icon for a generation of young boys and toy manufacturer Hasbro announced back in June that they secured producers Tom DeSanto (all three X-Men films) and Don Murphy (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) to bring them a full-length, live action film based on their soldiers from Cybertron. Murphy announced a month later that the candidates to helm the project included Robert Zemeckis, Michael Bay and Joseph Kahn (whose only film credit thus far is Torque). Since then Bay has declined, leaving us hoping that Zemeckis will take up the sword. Although it's old news today, Zemeckis was the director who pioneered the seamless visual effects that made Forrest Gump possible, so I'm dying to see what that kind of visual imagination might be able to do with today's effects technology and a big, red eighteen-wheeler.

 

In the past few weeks, there have been some supposed leaked art tests and budget rumors so preposterous they aren't worth mentioning, especially since there's no word yet of a studio picking the film up (although three major studios are reportedly considering it). We do know that DeSanto has written up a story treatment, which will be passed on to a screenwriter soon to be hired by himself and Murphy. The story will revolve around the Generation One characters (seen in the original 80's cartoon), and DeSanto has delved deeply into the old episodes and comic books for inspiration. He does warn that producing a tight, unified plot is of key concern, and says his mission isn't to " try to follow continuity, but get to the heart and the soul of what made it work.."

 

Canadian publisher Dreamwave Productions won the rights to produce Transformers comics a few years ago, and gave the license a promising start. Within the first few pages of it's first issue, Generation One - Series One became the bloodiest TF line so far, a change reflecting the new age of it's audience; it would go on to set up the Autobots as unwilling anti-heroes against the Decepticons who were bent on taking Earth, with greedy arms dealers threatening to make a bad situation worse. Things got more interesting with the first The War Within series, as we learned of the origins behind Optimus' leadership and the loyalty rifts that divided the Autobot generals for and against him. Of particular interest in TWW was Grimlock, who was not the bumbling fool we saw in the cartoon series but a capable military commander who seriously doubted the qualifications of his new leader.

 

From there, however, the franchise began to languish. The Armada line went on for eighteen grueling issues, and instead of being finally given a mercy killing was carried on with the Energon series, which began with issue nineteen. The plotlines carried through other recent series' have also been less than stellar, depending more on flashy graphics than solid stories and characters. DeSanto has claimed, however, that his treatment will be based not on the cartoon or recent comics, but more on the original comics published in the 80's by Marvel. What's funny is that the film is set for a 2005 release, the same year in which Transformers: The Movie was set.

 

The project, however, is slowing down. Technical challenges aside, the source material for the script is so well know and been around for so long that the pre-production should be a snap. This film already has an audience just waiting to hand over their money, made apparent by the vast collections of eighty-dollar toys Those nerdy little fourth-graders who vowed to live and die at the command of Optimus Prime are now thirty years old, with inner children to nurture and professional salaries to burn. In late January, DeSanto claimed that he anticipated closing a deal with one of his three studio prospects within a month; February has now come and gone, with no word. I guess we'll have to wait and see and hope that the deal hasn't soured.

 

Perhaps the Matrix will light our darkest hour?

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I really do hope they make this movie. With today's technology and graphics can you imagin how this movie would look? I think it would look nothing more then phenominal. But they are going to have to come up with a good story line and I think thats whats holding them back right now and slowing things down. Plus they have to find a movie studio to pick the film up. The movie studios are fickle now days as well as directors and such and they will not do anything unless it will make some sort of profit and if they think there will be an audience for it. Well they will have an audience thats for sure because I and alot of TF fans want this move to be made. So lets hope they get it done for 2005 because it would suck BIG TIME if it didnt. So lets hope and pray!

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When the movie opens I hope that a bunch of TF Freaks don't line up early and stand around cosplaying out scenes... That will embarrass all of us Geeks skipping work to see it.

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