A few updates in what is becoming the traditional "Don Sunday Event" over on DM.net. Some news for fans, including the opportunity to compile a "greatest hits" movie that will be shown to Michael Bay to show him what fans consider the defining moments of the franchise.

 

Check out the original thread here.

 

Initial Line Producer Meeting Happens!  Tom Desanto and I sat down this week with Ian Bryce, the chap who will be responsible for the budget and schedule of the meeting.  He worked with Michael Bay on THE ISLAND.  We learned that the budget is gonna be around $125m if Dreamworks can wrangle it; that Michael is thrilled but the deal is NOT yet finished; and that we will have enormous pressure on us to get the film done right.  But right it will get done!

 

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A Proposal to the Friends of Transformers!  Okay, now this is certainly unique in the annals of fandom. I want to have access to a ONE hour reel (maximum).  The purpose of the reel is to use a reference for what the fans like best about the property.  It’s not that we all don’t know TF- I thought it would be great to actually have a physical reference reel that Bay, the actors, the producers, Spielberg- everybody could play it as a sort of ‘make sure we include as much of this as possibleâ€? thing.  The winner will get something cool. I promise, once I figure out what it is.  Here are the rules for this unofficial competition- 1) Whatever I say goes 2) you have to have access not only to your own cartoon dvds but also a way of editing them together 3) less is more 4) the first FIVE people to email me at Mrdonmurphy @ hotmail.com will be allowed to participate and given an address to send them to- the sooner I get them the better.  After that, if none are chosen the winner, I’ll open it up to five more.  Once more- a dvd/reel that is less than an hour that summarizes everything about the Transformers that the fans love.  I don’t think any producer has ever opened this up like this before- let’s see what happens.

 

(BUT TO BE CLEAR and I thought I was- this is NOT "what I think should be in the film" but "important Blot in the history of TF")

 

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COMICON! I figure wherever I am I’m gonna have to come back from filming to do the ComicCon panel that Dreamworks is planning.  Dudes this is gonna rock…they are thinking about having a big Optimus truck giving away stuff outside.  If you wanna hear more about it, you can, only at the Don Murphy .NETwork.

 

That’s my Sunday musings for the week.  Enjoy yours.

 

Don Murphy

Commander in Freak of Stooges

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It should be noted that all five (extended to six) slots to compose a movie reel have been filled. These have gone to the following board members:

 

Mike Cassidy; Sppower; Jolin; B Elkin(?); Prowl and Jason Condit

 

One of these members, Mike Cassidy, suggested that:

 

What if we discussed it and used a few reference threads to make sure the 5 people making reels included all that was mentioned or atleast all that was heavily regarded.

 

Also, if you can make a compilation reel you can easily export it to a low res avi for community rating aswell.

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Don's response:

 

 

Good idea- use this thread and I will keep it stuck.

 

And then yes- we'll keep it linked to the site.

 

But it has to be a nice job!

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So, there you go folks. Post your "top moments" in the thread listed above and hopefully one of those composing the reels will include some of your top choices.

 

I mentioned comic moments as well and hopefully it'll be possible for people to include still of comic pages in their reels.

 

A pretty impressive opportunity for fans, I'm sure you'll agree.

That is pretty sweet. If that doesn't silence the Murphy haters, I don't know what will.

 

 

 

 

oh who am I kidding :roll

 

 

 

Very cool though. Wish I'd been quicker on the draw - I would have loved to cut something together for them.

Who else is thinking at least four of those submissions will be along the lines of MTMTE+TF:TM+Selected shots from cartoon+Character list

Who else is thinking at least four of those submissions will be along the lines of MTMTE+TF:TM+Selected shots from cartoon+Character list

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Well you know it ain't gonna be "Child's Play" and "Hoist Goes Hollywood".

 

P.S. I would be shocked if ANYTHING post-TF:TM makes it into any of these reels.

Who else is thinking at least four of those submissions will be along the lines of MTMTE+TF:TM+Selected shots from cartoon+Character list

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Well you know it ain't gonna be "Child's Play" and "Hoist Goes Hollywood".

 

P.S. I would be shocked if ANYTHING post-TF:TM makes it into any of these reels.

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I liked Child's Play.

 

But no I'm not expecting it in there.  I could see some talk of Quintessons and some of the later characters beig mentioned (Hot Rod, Arcee, Kup ... ) but not many of the storylines.  Unless they're taken from the comics ...

gawd :redface :tdown

shame steeljaw didn't get a shot, he's awesome with compiling them for videos

Watch it be a whole 1 hour movie about Gen 3 or RiD :puke I don't trust one person showing off for all of fandom. Too many nimrods out there.

Watch it be a whole 1 hour movie about Gen 3 or RiD :puke I don't trust one person showing off for all of fandom. Too many nimrods out there.

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oh come on. the only ones who care that much are the stick-up-their-butt purists. Don't worry.

DANMIT!!!

 

 

I MISSED IT!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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Thanks a lot for the update, Angelophile. :thumb

 

 

 

*makes weekly visit to DM.net*