5150 Cruiser wrote: Their's an old saying...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
Lets say your correct, and thats the rules in movie making. First movie comes out with all the stuff fans generaly had a problem with was all Bay and Co. Hasbro had no say in production and/or script. Now what anout the second movie? Or the third? They knew about the character not havinf apmle screen time and dialoge that many would have liked to see, not to meantion the "Potty humor".
That old saying doesnt apply here for 2 reasons.
1]The contracts signed arent for 1 movie.Its pretty standard for such contract to have provisions for multiple films.As long as they are done within a specified time frame.
Marvel is experiencing that issue as a problem with both the Spiderman and X-men films.
Marvel is pretty much making their own films now, Marvel studios, but they cant make a Spiderman film because the film rights belong to Sony, they alsdo cant make X-men or related films because the rights belong to 20th century Fox.
2]Not having ample screan time is an opinion, even if its shared by many its just an opinion.The dialog issues are a matter of personal taste, some didnt like it but many did.
They arent going to bow to the opinions and dislikes of a few within the fanbase when the films are being liked and accepted by the general audience.
If hasbro had a problem with it, then before script writing took place those problems should have been addressed then and there.
Again they have to abide by the contract.Unless the product devates in a large way there really isint much say in thev matter.
I'd like to see these links. Cause intill then, everything i have seen points to it being an honest mistake.
like I said the info is lost to me now.
The only source I can point to right now is a small mention of the interview on TF wiki.
From tf wiki
According to a fan who attended the Australian press conference, Bay had confirmed that he had decided to use the name "Devastator" because he had preferred it
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brawl_%28Movie%29#Notes
the wiki artical refers to a post made by a member over at TFW2005.
But I hears a audio recording of the interview someone made.
Do you have proof that this is the way things operate?
outside of dozens of interviews I have read from film makers and what I learned while working for Marvel I would have to say no.
I dont have proof I can post.
But you can look at how long it took to make some films for clues.
Marvel wanted a Spiderman film made back nin n89 after Burtons sucsses with his Batman, but Sony and Camron had the rights so the film was delayed for years.
It wasnt till Camrons rights lapsed that Sony was able to contract Ramie to do the films.
And now Marvel wants them all back, but as long as Sony keeps producing films within a time frame set in the contract, Marvel cant get the rights back.And its the exact same situation with Fox and the X-films.
I'm not saying Hasbro had no input, but the limits of their input is defined before the contract is agreed to.
Now, with that said, I cant tell you how much input their contrack for the live action films allowed them.
But knowing the kind of film maskers Speliberg and Bay are, I doubt they signed up for any project they didnt have the majority of control over.