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[Skowl]

Transformers Movie director Michael was present, alongside other creators who worked on the film, during a VFX Technology presentation on the Sony Movie lot. Michael Bay spoke about the upcoming Transformers Movie sequel, and how the film was prepared in case of a prolonged writers strike (which will now no longer be a cause of delay for the film, as the strike ended last night).

Of note is Bay making mention of the writers returning, and a story that will see deeper robot characters as well as a "geriatric robot"

Read about the event on Variety editor Anne Thompson's detailed blog post by clicking here.

[Liege Evilmus]

Taking all bets:

Vector Prime or Kup.

[Orion_Prime48]

Im betting Kup

[Burn]

Taking all bets:

Vector Prime or Kup.

Or bullshit to stir the fanboys up.

Cue Trunks and SoooooooTrypticon.

[SavageCam]

I'll go with Alpha Trion. Possibilities:

1. Flashback - Probably Prime, maybe someone else. Some sort of memory about how Prime was chosen to lead/informed of some enigmatic threat/cryptically told of some secret weapon/knowledge

2. Quest - Autobots are looking for something (Matrix?) with which to combat Galvatron/resurrected Megatron/Unicron/other threat and find a cave/facility/vault on Earth/Cybertron where they encounter the aging guardian (a la Indy and the Last Crusade) OR Alpha Trion is the old sage that guides them on the quest

3. Rescue - Decepticons are holding him as bait for a trap/extracting information to further their plans and the Autobots must save him.

Yeah, most of those have been done before and whatever. Given the fairly basic story of TF 1, I went with some familiar, well liked ideas.

[First Gen]

Im going with Trion on this one. Or Vector Prime cause he's probably better known to younger generations.


Someone who will be able to "solve the mystery of the cube" im guessing.

[Liege Evilmus]

You guys jumped the gun on my round 2 balck horse pick

[Skowl]

I say Brakedown/Breakdown, since Hasbro owns the trademark on that name and the younger audience will remember his character from TF: Cybertron.

Vector Prime would just confuse the average movie go-er since it's another Prime.

Kup's name is probably no longer reserved for Hasbro, unless they pull out the 'ol "Autobot Kup" trick again.

Alpha Trion is probably too complex a character to do in this movie series, someone like him has alot of backstory, which the films seem to lack.

I'd dig Brakedown in the movie series, you could do something really cool with his design in the movie style, if you wanted to do a similar looking robot...

[i_amtrunks]

Like the thinking Skowl.

Sorry Burn, I had trouble following what you meant?

[Sideshow Sideswipe]

Dear Michael Bay,

Please show the robots for more than 20 minutes of the two hour movie. Keep the F$^*ing camera still so we can see the robots, which is why we came to the movie.