Live-action Transformers Movie Producer Interviewed

[AJ]

The most important question - will BumbleBee be the traditional VW Beetle, or the new model...?

Okay, so it's not really important.



:blush:

[JamesMK]

"The plan with the movie is that it will combine live action with CGI. I think it's going to be something the audience has never seen before."
Whoa! Incredibly innovative approach! :rolleyes:

[MDurante]

I'll see it so long as they retain the classic transformation sound from the original cartoon. Let me try to reproduce:

"Wee-wooh-rooo-ooo"

Too much hot chocolate (it's so cold outside...),

- Matthew Durante

[FloydBishop]

If they're going to do it in the old, generation one era, it should be set in the early to mid 80's.

That would mean all of the old music, energon cubes, and Soundwave would be a cassette deck... not a CD player or something else "modern".

http://www.mechaex.com/Trans5Dec.jpg

[hypercube]

If it's set in the 80's would they re-use the awesome "You Got The Touch" song? :p :D


Actually if it's done with the right amount of tongue in cheek and respect for the original "generation one" stuff, it could be really cool. It'd at least get me in there from a stuff-I-dug-as-a-kid angle for sure.

P.S. JamesMK - yeah, sounds amazing eh? what'll they think of next?

[Boone]

Re: Floyd Bishop.

Sound wave & the Spy cassetees!!!:bounce:

I always wanted them in toy form as a kid!!!:bowdown:

[AJ]

Originally posted by Boone
Sound wave & the Spy cassetees!!!:bounce:

I always wanted them in toy form as a kid!!!:bowdown:

Haha! He sits on my desk right now!

:D

[psyop63b]

IF they make this movie, hire this guy!

http://home.comcast.net/~msmith1015/VWVideo.htm

And if it's not too much trouble, hire me too ;)

[Fasty]

Originally posted by MDurante
I'll see it so long as they retain the classic transformation sound from the original cartoon. Let me try to reproduce:

"Wee-wooh-rooo-ooo"



What the heck was that?? Not even close! Everyone knows it's:

"Chickacookacokkacakka"

:thumbsup:

[Boone]

Re: AJ_23.

Fool! It was yours only by chance! It could have been mine - It SHOULD be mine!!!! Give 'im to me!:twisted:

[animatty]

I think this could be such an awesome film. Especially if they reuse "you got the touch" but they have to use the version from Boogie Nights.

[gabe28]

It'll be a cool movie as long as they get the scale of the characters right. Even as a kid I realised that the Decepticons who transformed from fighter jets should be much larger than the autobots who transformed from cars... and megatron who transformed from a friggin hand gun should definately have been much smaller than the jet decepticons.... you get the picture. The scale issue just can't be ignored in a live action movie.

[Fasty]

Originally posted by gabe28
It'll be a cool movie as long as they get the scale of the characters right. Even as a kid I realised that the Decepticons who transformed from fighter jets should be much larger than the autobots who transformed from cars... and megatron who transformed from a friggin hand gun should definately have been much smaller than the jet decepticons.... you get the picture. The scale issue just can't be ignored in a live action movie.

I can't wait to see how they handle Optimus' trailer that just appears when he transforms, hehe

[RobW720]

Ba wheep gra nah wheep ninny baum.

[Simtub]

Originally posted by gabe28
It'll be a cool movie as long as they get the scale of the characters right. Even as a kid I realised that the Decepticons who transformed from fighter jets should be much larger than the autobots who transformed from cars... and megatron who transformed from a friggin hand gun should definately have been much smaller than the jet decepticons.... you get the picture. The scale issue just can't be ignored in a live action movie.

lmao!! lol...yeah the scale issue..hella funny seeing megatron transform into a handgun and starscream or some other huge robot hold him and fire at the autobots! truly out of scale..

same with Astrotrain transforming into a space shuttle and able to carry the entire decepticon crew back to cybertron...isnt he smaller than megatron?

heheh

[claytondouglas]

Originally posted by psyop63b
IF they make this movie, hire this guy!

http://home.comcast.net/~msmith1015/VWVideo.htm

And if it's not too much trouble, hire me too ;)



Soooo beautiful:drool: ...must fight tears of joy


now then ...to all of you people who have this issue with Megatron being out of scale....get over it...its a movie....ok so you need a scientific theory...well here goes....We are clearly dealing with a species that has been living sentiently and intelligently for millions of years. They have mastered space travel...they have lasar guns. Clearly they are smarter than we are....maybe they can master their form on a molecular level......And maybe us stupid humans dont get it cuz were not smart enough:rolleyes:
I dont know.....but I dont think its a point worth dwelling on.
This is gonna be cool....Every kid I knew wanted to see this movie happen when we were young. Anyone who grew up on the toys and watched the after school GI Joe / Transformers cartoon hour, had this thought go through their head ...."what if they made a live action movie"

Hell....if they made a Go-Bots (ghetto transformers) movie, Id watch it too.

And wouldnt it be cool if they didnt get sued by Bandai or Harmony Gold or whoever so they could bring back Jetfire.....aaah hes sitting on my desk as I write

[barpoet]

Yes, the Transformers will be awesome. I hope the are true to the original voices. The nect great project would be MASK :buttrock: then I will become happy to admit I am an old fart!

[nerdhen]

Rock!:buttrock:

BTW- Sound Freaks...
http://www.geocities.com/prime357/tfsounds.html

[monkeygroove]

Man I grew up with the transforers. I think that a live action movie would be cool. I have watched some of the new series that have been done, and was really disapointed. I thank that the new people just missed the point. This movie could be a huge hit, but at the same time it could flop like a fat man at a swimming pool. They need to be careful how they do this.

Watched the clip, and it was awsome, but it still leaves one question unanswered that I have all ways had: Where do the guns go when they were cars?

[gabe28]

I have watched some of the new series that have been done, and was really disapointed.
I think Beast Machines was pretty cool. It was a short lived follow up series to the awful 'Beast Wars'. Anyway, Beast Machines had a cool visual style and interesting storyline. It was really obscure though. I don't think most people ever realised it was ever made.

[Spankspeople]

Look, the commonly explanation for the varied sizes between the Transformers robot and vehicle states is subspace. How else do you explain where Optimus Prime's trailer went most of the time?

Any time something changes into something far larger, or more complex than it originally was? Subspace.

The same goes for characters that just weren't there from episode to episode as well. =P

Oh, and I preferred Beast Wars to Beast Machines because it wasn't nearly so dumbed down... The second you take a cocky gunslinger character and have him accept the fact that he just doesn't use guns anymore, you know you've got a problem.

Visually it was infinitely better, but story-wise, at least the last two seasons of Beast Wars were infinitely superior.

I miss Dinobot... *sniff*

[claytondouglas]

This could start a whole Rennaissance for Hasbro Characters....
Thundercats...the Movie.....:banghead:



EWWWWW!

[gabe28]

Oh, and I preferred Beast Wars to Beast Machines because it wasn't nearly so dumbed down... The second you take a cocky gunslinger character and have him accept the fact that he just doesn't use guns anymore, you know you've got a problem.
Man, I dunno... the episodes of Beast Wars that I saw were just plain terrible. I mean animation AND story. Maybe it got better after a while. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying Beast Machines was amazing. Just enjoyable.

[gabe28]

As for subspace or molecular shrinking/expanding theries to explain scale problems.... naw... just make them the correct sizes. If they had access to subspace and to shrinking/expanding technology, their transformations would be a bit silly and dated technology.

If they do an animated movie, I'd be forgiving of scale issues. But not in live action. My suspension of disbelief is more limited with live action I guess.

Man, I am sounding like such a nerd. Bottom line though, I can't wait for the movie to come out. I just hope it's not another 'Masters of the Univers' type movie.

[claytondouglas]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gabe28
[B]As for subspace or molecular shrinking/expanding theries to explain scale problems.... naw... just make them the correct sizes. If they had access to subspace and to shrinking/expanding technology, their transformations would be a bit silly and dated technology.

But that happens in our world too.....we still use old tech after its been upgraded. Look on our highways....its definitely evident there...I got a friend who uses an AMIGA to make music. Im just saying you can write your way around ANYTHING!! Its Sci-fi...thats the beauty of it. Im sure they will take into consideration all of these concerns

[Spankspeople]

Maybe the Transformers suffer from some form of matter destabilization virus thingy, and their transforming is a natural adaptation to the process... *shrug*

We're talking about giant sentient inorganic looking robots from the 80's for crying out loud. I think you can give them a little freedom here. =P

Besides, they'll probably go with the more children-friendly tanks Megatron, since tanks are less likely to corrupt small children than guns... *eyeroll*

Edit: You may also have been watching the Fox edited "Beast Wars" episodes. In Canada we got the original run as "Beasties"(Horrible name... can't have war in the title, but we can air the episodes unedited... go figure =P) on YTV, and they're infinitely superior. The Fox cuts had to comply with American television standards(which most Fox shows, l"Big guy and Rusty" for example, did not follow) which disallowed any use of projectile weapons, and anything that could be considered terribly violent(That's why, way back when, Gargoyles switched over to laser weapons and stuff). As a result they removed parts of episodes, did a really bad job of editing out things(zooming in on characters faces, for example... really pixely) and some episodes they removed entirely. The result was a horribly butchered series that didn't look quite right with key plot related episodes missing.

Beast Machines was made to work more closely with these standards. That's why the good guys didn't hurt anything sentient, just mindless drones... and nobody died... and there were no projectile weapons, just lasers... and the good guys were nearly pacifists for crying out loud... I felt that this hurt the series a lot... the characters who DID have character couldn't be hurt, so I didn't care about them, and the characters that could have something serious happen to them had as much personality as a block of wood. After the first few episodes this sunk in and I didn't really care about what was going on.

And the toys sucked ass... too much translucent plastic, not enough Transformer. =P

(Sorry, I just don't really like Beast Machines... they killed off all of these characters that I loved, and replaced them with pansies who had the same names... though that wasn't their fault... was it Hasbro who did the toys? They made them dumb the series down to be more kid-friendly after all of the school shootings/violence in the media craze got really big... AND they produced really crappy toys. =P)

Another edit(Can you tell I'm annoyed? Heh...): Nightscream. The character was originally written to have winged arms. The initial sketches of the character, as far as I can tell, had winged arms. The flarking toy, which was based on the character AFTER he was introduced in the series(a first for a Transformer... they're always based on the toys, even if very losely) had winged arms, even though it was covered with an unacceptable amount of translucent plastic(I find that translucent plastic in that series of action figures was used as a way to hide the all-around shottyness... the two that were acceptably decent[Cheetor and Jetscream] had very little translucent plastic)... He actually looked cool with winged arms!

Why the hell did the animators stick his wings on his feet?

I THINK I'm done now... though I may think of something else at a later time... don't mind me, Beast Machines wasn't nearly as bad as I make it out to be, it just seriously pissed me off... =P

[Supervlieg]

I was waiting for this to happen for a while now!

I hope they get the autobots right, and I hope they totally ignore the new transformers altogether. and i hope they include Omega supreme, and I sure cant wait to see cybertron!


I wonder what they will do with the facial expressions though.

[claytondouglas]

finally someone I can relate too....:beer:

[MSmith]

quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Originally posted by psyop63b
IF they make this movie, hire this guy!

http://home.comcast.net/~msmith1015/VWVideo.htm

And if it's not too much trouble, hire me too
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I totally agree!!!! Hire that guy!!!
;)

I personally want to see Devastator....six contruction vehicles/robots that form one giant robot!!!!
(mostly because it's too much work to do myself)

[eevilmouse]

WOW I feel Old.. DOnt any of you remember the First episodes of the Series? They Crash on Earth, and the Computer (think they called it Cybertron, but that was also the name of the planet they were from) anyraite the computer Changed their form so they can blend in with the World. All the autobots got turned into cars, and the Deciptacons got turned into planes. Granted it glossed over Mega-tron, and Soundwave. Anyrate, You learn from the Show, that Mega-tron and Soundwave Shrink when they transform..Who cares how, Its accepted they do it.

[Spankspeople]

WOW I feel Old.. DOnt any of you remember the First episodes of the Series? They Crash on Earth, and the Computer (think they called it Cybertron, but that was also the name of the planet they were from) anyraite the computer Changed their form so they can blend in with the World.

"Explore! Explore! Repair! Repair!" - Teletran 1

Hehe, my brother got the first couple of seasons on DVD a while back... lost my videocassettess a while ago... =P

[claytondouglas]

Hell yeah!.....and it wouldnt be right unless you had soundwave...possibly the coolest character....personality wise.
I know there only gonna base it on G1 but Metroplex would be cool...A whole city that transforms.....
Im so pumped for this thing!

[claytondouglas]

dude that was sooo cool....:drool:

[Supervlieg]

Let them work in this baby

http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/images/ourcollection/Neo/unicron/images/Unicron6.jpg

[claytondouglas]

best thread ever!!!!!!!!:buttrock:

[gabe28]

claytondouglas,
Just saw the quote at the bottom of your posts. Go to The Punk Group (http://www.thepunkgroup.com/) and check out the audio/MP3 section. First song. Think you'll like it.

[gigatron]

WHAT? Real action live movie WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I don't wana get banned lol, but i wana continue the woo woo.

Transformers are like my childhood.. thingamajig! NICE!

Lets hope its not power rangers all over again heh.

[gabe28]

If I had my choice, I'd prefer it be fully computer animated (not cell shaded either). I can understand why studios wouldn't go for it though. Sci-Fi animated movies have mostly met with death at the box office lately... Titan AE, Iron Giant and Final Fantasy.... though in fairness the Iron Giant was the only one really worth seeing.... yet it failed too. I guess Jimmy Nuetron did pretty good, but it's not the kind of Sci-Fi I'm after. Back to my point though... live action Transformers... I dunno... I'm hoping for the best but does anyone remember Robot Jox? I didn't think so.

[Fasty]

Resizing the Transformers? Fully CG (including the people? that always looks nice..)?

I'm just glad gabe28 isn't making this film ;)

[gabe28]

I'm just glad gabe28 isn't making this film
LOL!!! Yeah, maybe I'm digging too deep. Ultimately, I just hope it's a fun movie.

[claytondouglas]

I remember robot Jox......That movie is the reason there was no Transformers movie in the eighties. Producers were kicking the idea around for awhile and then that movie got released and some execs just scraped the idea citing it would be "far too difficult". I guess they thopugh robot jox ruined the genre...which in a way it did.

[gabe28]

hehe... Robot Jox is even more evil than I had first imagined?!?! Egads!!!

Seriously, though, I have a hard time picturing a 'good' live action Transformers movie. Man, oh man, would I love to be proved wrong though.

Truth be told, it'd be a lot easier to make a live action G.I.Joe or Thundercats movie... not that I'm suggesting it.... and they better not trudge up those f***ing Gobots either..... *shudder*...

[gabe28]

Now that I've really thought about it for a while I take back my suggestions for an all computer generated movie. I now am thinking that a 2D/3D mix would be cool. Like Iron Giant... NOT LIKE TITAN AE!!!! Not the same drawing style as Iron Giant but the same technology. Very well drawn and clean hand drawn elements with very well matched and clean cell shaded 3D elements. Tough to do but just look how cool it looked in Iron Giant... then again that movie lost a boatload of money. Atlantis had some cool 2d/3d mixture too.... too bad the story was sooo bad.

[claytondouglas]

Originally posted by gabe28
Now that I've really thought about it for a while I take back my suggestions for an all computer generated movie. I now am thinking that a 2D/3D mix would be cool. Like Iron Giant... NOT LIKE TITAN AE!!!! Not the same drawing style as Iron Giant but the same technology. Very well drawn and clean hand drawn elements with very well matched and clean cell shaded 3D elements. Tough to do but just look how cool it looked in Iron Giant... then again that movie lost a boatload of money. Atlantis had some cool 2d/3d mixture too.... too bad the story was sooo bad.



it probably would be good, Gabe, but I think youre missing the point. There has never been a successful live action Giant Robot movie. This would pave the way for the genre. WETA is working on concepts for an Evangelion movie, but I think the story is questionable at best. There is talk of a Mechwarrior movie...but the story has been reported to sound lame.
Weve all seen enough giant robot animation. The titles are limitless and most are pretty shitty. But there are a few gems.
Reanimating these would do nothing for the series.....Its time someone stepped up to the plate and gave us some live action
giant robot goods. The closest weve gotten is A few selected star wars scenes, the big mechs in Revolutions, Ed209....

Maybe Im crazy.....but I think Transformers would be fine live action.

[Fasty]

lol Robo Jox!! Yeah that was a bad movie because.. well, it was a bad movie. It didn't capture the imagination and awe that two humungous fighting robots could/should have. Just imagine a full on Transformers war on earth, reducing cities to rubble, fighter jets flying around and transforming mid-air to the original transformation sound before unloading a suitably 80's sounding barrage of lazer blasts! Could be sooooo cool, to say nothing of Unicron, a TRANSFORMING PLANET!! :drool: Who cares about sizes and stuff, as Willy Wonka once said this is "pure imagination" :thumbsup:

[Pibre3d]

Ahh Transformers. Great nostalgia!
gabe28 what are you talking about?! Full cg? What really would be cool, if the movie was fully live action. Man, they would have to build real live size robots. Now that would be cool. :D
But then you would have a real sub-space problem. A theory I don't mind at all by the way. You cares? As long as it looks cool. People are too rational these days.

The story should be placed in the 80's. So no new beetles or discmans or mp3-players for that matter. I would love to see Laserbeak come out of Soundwaves chest. Kinda hard to imagine when Laserbeak is a cd. And hopefully they make not just a few of the Transformers. Like just 3 Autobots and 3 Decepticons. I want to see lots of Transformers, they don't all have to play a role, but just for eye-candy. And a tranformer like Devastator or Suprion would be great. Imagine them walking in the city streets.
Oh and Megatron has to be a gun that will fit in any hand. Regardless wether it is a human hand or a transformer hand.

[gabe28]

I admit that a live action could be really cool... IF... it is done right. Hell, that would rule!!! But how can I not be skeptical? As claytondouglas said, there has never been a good giant robot movie. Sure we all want one but I'm not sure that just because we now have computer graphics that they'll still make a decent movie. Fasty's vision of a transformer war on Earth destroying cities and what-not IS COOL AS HELL but I really doubt this movie would be given the kind of buget it would need to realise a vision like that.

This is one thread I'd love to be wrong about though. Believe me, Transformers helped me get through one sh***y childhood.

[claytondouglas]

This is one thread I'd love to be wrong about though. Believe me, Transformers helped me get through one sh***y childhood.
[B]


I heard that.....

As far as budget is concerned. Well, Godzilla got its money....and aside from revamping Godzilla to look like a giant lame ass iguana, the effects were pretty damn good. If only Godzilla had stepped on Broderick early on in that movie.....we wouldnt have had to endur that love story.

Im not sure why you dont think this movie will get a budget decent enough. Transformers has earned its place among the cult classics. Batman got its cash, even as the franchise got worse....they still get dough to make these films, even if the previous one sucked horribly. I think Transformers will do fine its first time out.....or at least I pray it does

[Pibre3d]

Why did they never make a live action with stop-motion Transformer movie, Ray Harryhausen style! Whoohoo that would have kicked ass! Well one of the first things I tried when I got a videocamera on my hands, was to try to make transformer stop-motion animation. (but those darn things kept falling over)

please ignore this post. I couldn't help myself. I'm just being silly. I won't happen again. :blush:

[Fasty]

Originally posted by Pibre3d
The story should be placed in the 80's. So no new beetles or discmans or mp3-players for that matter. I would love to see Laserbeak come out of Soundwaves chest. Kinda hard to imagine when Laserbeak is a cd. And hopefully they make not just a few of the Transformers. Like just 3 Autobots and 3 Decepticons. I want to see lots of Transformers, they don't all have to play a role, but just for eye-candy. And a tranformer like Devastator or Suprion would be great. Imagine them walking in the city streets.
Oh and Megatron has to be a gun that will fit in any hand. Regardless wether it is a human hand or a transformer hand.

PERFECT!! :love:

[claytondouglas]

word!!!!

[gunslingerblack]

DUDE transformers movie is gonna kick so much ass, i just can't wait to see some sneak peek visuals on it, lol i dont even care if it's the side of a truck with the autobots symbol on it haha i wanna see something, someone could make some stuff up and i would be happy, someone mentioned reviving thundercats i think it would be a totally good idea but all cg i dont think thundercats belong in live action, ive run the idea through in my head a few times and i think they would work a whole lot in cg, lol im an 80s kid too anyone remember jayce and the wheeled warriors? now thats hardcore, haha would it be really extreme if the giant robot genre brought back a live action of VOLTRON haha i would go just because it's voltron haha how random am i?

punctuation anyone?

[Gnome]

.




---- I will sell my soul to work on this movie ---




.

[Zithen]

I loved the Transformers in my childhood. They were (and still are) my favorite toy.
And as much as I would like to see a real live action Transformers movie, I think it's going to be very tricky to get it done right.
No matter how you slice it, the Transformers were certainly targeted for the 5-12 age range, I think. Obviously for boys. Now that we've all grown up, it would be nostalgia for us, but it still can't neglect it's targeted audience, which is kids. So the tricky thing would be is to satisfy kids (that are currently watching Transformers) and adults. Or should it be more PG-13, more mature and for teens+? The comics and movie may have been a bit more mature and darker than the TV series. For kids/family or teens/adults? Which tone should it be? I don't think you can shoot for both.

Also, the Transformers was heavily influenced by Star Wars and the classic boy facination with car/plane model toys. A live action movie, therefore, must have the budget to accomidate the lavish special effects, like a Star Wars, otherwise it will be a disappointment. It must also play on the appeal of fast cars and planes, (car stunts, areal fights, crashes etc). And, of course accomplish all this without loosing sight of great characters, both human and machine.

I think it's a big risk, actually, because it could easily go in the wrong direction. CG robots may work, but I doubt it would make for much realism to see it throughout the film. I would say do some motion control of real models and use CG when you can't do it any other way.

Star Wars/The Road Warrior/Top Gun/ID4 is the visual style I think it should be ultimately. So there's no way it could be anything less than 150 mill. And since it's more a cult fav TV show/toy than a more widely popular and enduring comic like Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc, it's a big risk. So they should be thinking long and hard about how to put this on the screen.

To put the setting in the 80s is a very interesting idea, though.

[Supervlieg]

I think it would rock cg wise. Since it's way more easy to make a believable car in Cg then it is to do an organic creature.
And I hope they do the intro LOTR style, so that you have the back story in a few minutes and are ready for the real action.

Whatever thy're going to do, they better damn well keep them hands of the transformer theme and the tune for the transitions between the scenes!

[parallax]

1 reason i think the Transformers film will have a better chance at the box office, is that the power of the format is much, much bigget then Final Fantasy or Titan AE.
Entire generations grew up with the series. The whole 22/30 year old generation were bombarded with the Transformers.

It will succeed if they will keep with the old touches such as those stunticons forming Menasor :) :)
Anyone remember the episode in wich the autobots camouflage themselves as the stunticons?? They even got to merge!!!
greatest episode ever!

The scale issue really doesn't matter also, films are all 'bout deception anyway. Furthermore, i think a large portion of the audience is 'conditioned' in seeing starscream carrying Megatron.

No for some pointless fanboy replies:

:applause: :bounce:

I'm going to pick up the DVD of the original series right away..

[Acree]

I might not have been arund for G1 but I have seen the movie and if the series was anything like that then they better start replaying it after they finish this movie, well that's what they usually do, isn't it?:shrug:

Anyway will starscream still be the same I thought he got blasted?:rolleyes:

I wonder if we'll see unicron that could make a nice twist!:twisted:

I really really really hope they dont do what they did to thunderbirds, dude they totally messed it up, coz why the hec would they all be on the space station at once???

Anyway if they stay true to the original transformers where can they go wrong!!:thumbsup:

[T Bomb]

I just hope they have the crazy hair metal theme from the original movie somewhere in this new one. You guys know what I'm talkin about:
*guitar riff, guitar riff, guitar riff(getting louder and louder)* and then "TRANSFORMEEERRRRRRRRRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[claytondouglas]

I want to see a Robotech movie....SDF1 .....destroids.....valkryes....mmmmmm

[201]

What's the deal with people wanting this to take place in the 80's? In the interview, DeSanto only says that he wants to pay "homage to 1980's movies and gets back to the sense of wonder that Hollywood has lost over the years".

Personally, I think it would be dopey to have this film take place in the 80's unless they set it up so that a present day character is remembering something that happened in that decade. I don't remember anything in the cartoon that limits the story only to one era (aside from the vehicles/devices, which for the most part still exists now). There are still cassette players and old VW Beetles today, so it's not like they have to use cd players or the New NB's.

I don't know, I think the movie will work better if it took place in the present day.

[Fasty]

Setting it in the 80's would be just another drawcard to make people want to see this movie! Oh man it could be soo rad!

[CENOBITE]

well, I see it set in the 'slighty ahead of our future' sort of thing. I think Desanto meant the TYPE of naive- iconic film that we were used to in the 80's, not set it in the 80's... then it would be more along the lines of a parody.


Now if only Orson Wells was still alive...

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.