The Energon Pub

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I'm kinda wanting to draw a movie style Leo Convoy. I would love to see him on the big screen. In fact, I would MUCH RATHER have the badassness of Leo Convoy on the big screen, rather than Optimus Primal. I don't like Prime as an ape.

I disagree. Optimus Primal is a really cool character and one that while he looks like and takes his name from Prime, is not Prime at all. He's young, inexperienced, and only the leader of a ship, not the whole nation. Plus the ape look is really cool and he gets some cool looks out of it too

True, but you have to admit, Leo Convoy just looks so much more dynamic than Primal. I'm not saying he's a better character since I've never seen the Japanese Beast Wars cartoons and it's hard to top Primal, but I've always loved his design.

He has an interesting design, I'll give that up, and the lion alt mode is a bit more leader-like and dynamic, but I'm not sure of the character. i know a little but that's it

[Ultra Markus]

i dont think any more Bayverse Transformers movies is a good idea unless they completely reboot the series

[YoungPrime]

not even remotely interested in these movies anymore. just show me the toys.

Difficult pal! As the movies haven't even gone into production yet(well....I don't think 5 has? it might be! correct me if i'm wrong) + the toys wouldn't even be in the design stage yet.

As long as there's crap on someone's lawn, Bay-formers will always be in the design stage.

[Zeedust]

not even remotely interested in these movies anymore. just show me the toys.

Difficult pal! As the movies haven't even gone into production yet(well....I don't think 5 has? it might be! correct me if i'm wrong) + the toys wouldn't even be in the design stage yet.

As long as there's crap on someone's lawn, Bay-formers will always be in the design stage.

You owe an apology to dog feces.

[Doubledealer93]

great more half assed toys lines with one decepticon per movie.

[Sabrblade]

great more half assed toys lines with one decepticon per movie.

That's one more than we got in the last movie.

[BumbleDouche]

Great, just shatter whatever dreams I had of a rebooted Movie-verse. "Follow your dreams, the future is built on dreams" - Well, Optimus, I'm gonna have to give up on THAT dream.

[DMSL]

I hated the last movie and now we are getting more of that garbage.

Please stop and let someone at the helm that actually cares about Transformers.

[Rodimus Prime]

great more half assed toys lines with one decepticon per movie.

That's one more than we got in the last movie.

So then officially Lockdown and Galvatron don't count as Decepticons? I figured at least Galvatron would...

[Sabrblade]

great more half assed toys lines with one decepticon per movie.

That's one more than we got in the last movie.

So then officially Lockdown and Galvatron don't count as Decepticons? I figured at least Galvatron would...

Within the confines of the movie's narrative (as Sto would say), AOE Lockdown was never a Decepticon, and Galvatron wasn't referred to as being a Decepticon (but he'd be the best candidate for being a Decepticon of the film's villains).

Plus, in the "Ultimate Transformers Showdown" on the official movie website, Galvatron, Stinger, Junkheap, and the "KSI Prototypes" are all given this unique insignia instead of a Decepticon symbol:

And with Lockdown being a neutral but requiring some kind of insignia for the game, he's just given the promotional AOE movie logo instead:

[OptimalOptimus2]

A Transformers 8! Has the world gone mad?!

[Stuartmaximus]

[Stuartmaximus]

http://news.tfw2005.com/2015/10/23/jon- ... vie-304297

[Rodimus Prime]

I would welcome a Joe/TF crossover. Acually, I think it should have been 1 of the TF sequels, considering how much Bay loves the military. Matter of fact, I was surprised Bay didn't direct any of the Joe movies. Seemed to be up his alley even more than Transformers.

Which Autobot and Decepticon leaders (who have not appeared yet) would you want to see in TF5?

[SlyTF1]

New interview.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/27/ ... ium=IGN%20

[LOST Cybertronian]

IGN has posted a short interview with the head of the Transformers movies writers' room Akiva Goldsman where he talks about the writers' room process and the human aspect of the movies. A snippet of the interview is below, click here for the whole thing.

IGN Movies: I wanted to ask about Transformers and what the writers' room process has been like -- because obviously that's commonplace for television, but not so much for movies. How has it been working with TV heavy-hitters like Steven DeKnight and Robert Kirkman on this franchise?

Akiva Goldsman: The room was honestly as delightful an experience as I've had. I think that we were just lucky enough to have a lot of good folks, all of whom were very generous. You know, I lurked around Fringe, and I learned a lot there. When you have a bunch of people who you respect, who are smart and talented, all trying to help each other figure stuff out, it's good whether you're all in a car heading across country for a road trip or a marriage and a family or a writers' room.

[Deadput]

No matter what anyone in the fandom says in the movies and tv shows humans will always be necessary.




It only works in the comics due to the fact they are not as big as movies or tv shows.

[Sabrblade]

Just gonna say that humans in Transformers isn't a problem. It's how they are used and portrayed that makes them good or bad.

[Deadput]

Just gonna say that humans in Transformers isn't a problem. It's how they are used and portrayed that makes them good or bad.

Exactly

There are good characters, there are bad characters...





Then there's Kicker.

[Sabrblade]

Then there's Kicker.

If nothing else, he was at least competent (and the only human to ever personally fight against Galvatron one-on-one in combat, and live).

Thankfully, he wasn't bad in the Energon comics by Dreamwave. Actually got a couple of cool moments in there.

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

"IGN: Right, and we've heard about that animated movie being an origin movie with just Transformers in it, right?

Goldsman: Yeah, the prequel. It takes place before Optimus and Megatron ever come to Earth."

Wait... what does THAT mean?

[Windsweeper]

After Batman and Robin Akiva Goldsman shouldn't be allowed near any movie production

[Stuartmaximus]

aye.....but just not with Jem!

[SlyTF1]

After Batman and Robin Akiva Goldsman shouldn't be allowed near any movie production

He's written some good movies after that. One **** movie doesn't mean he'd destined to write **** movies the rest of his career.

[o.supreme]

No matter what anyone in the fandom says in the movies and tv shows humans will always be necessary. It only works in the comics due to the fact they are not as big as movies or tv shows.

I have to respectfully disagree. The 1986 animated film is absolutely amazing, and human involvement was minimal, and could have easily been removed. I think it is budget restraints that require human involvement. To render 120 minuets of purely alien worlds and dozens of cinema level CG characters would push the budget to an insanely high amount. Remember we are not talking Pixar. We are talking ILM & other animation houses. Creating CG good enough to interact with the "real world" (I realize sometimes they fall short), still is way more complicated than creating an animated film within its own self contained animated world. I just hope that someday technology progresses to the point that you could have an entirely self-contained cinema level Transformers movie with all CG characters. True it would not work for most films, because well... most films require humans (Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU etc...) but Transformers does not.