Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 11:25AM CDT

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An article published from Broadcasting and Cable provides new details about the progress of Transformers: Prime, or at least Roberto Orci's and Alex Kurtzman's feeling on it. In the article, largely speaking about Stephen Davis and his work on the HUB, the two speak somewhat fondly of him (Davis) and their work on the project. From the B&C:

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek feature, Fringe, Alias), who wrote the Transformer movies, are also helming the animated Transformers TV series for Hasbro and The Hub. Davis’ A-Team approach is working “remarkably brilliantly,” Kurtzman tells B&C. “There is a stigma about things being done by committee creatively, but there is so much to be done, so much of a well to draw from,” Kurtzman says. “Everyone feels protected to do their best work because the message from the top down is that you’re supported in your vision.” Kurtzman adds that he and Orci would “like to work with [Davis] forever.”

Click here for the entire article.

For those out of the loop of course, Transformers: Prime is the new cartoon debuting on Hasbro's HUB television channel. But you probably knew that, or not.

Credit(s): Broadcasting and Cable.com

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Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068849)
Posted by Axalon_Prime on April 28th, 2010 @ 11:45am CDT

Man, I really hope this doesnt turn into movie-verse animated. How many more Camaro Bumblebeetoys can they do?

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068854)
Posted by Solrac333 on April 28th, 2010 @ 11:58am CDT

Why couldn't these guys just work on some other franchise and destroy other canons? #-o

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068861)
Posted by KingEmperor on April 28th, 2010 @ 12:12pm CDT

When they said that they DON'T want to return to writing TF again at the risk of "getting stale", I assumed they meant the TF franchise as a whole...

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068869)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 28th, 2010 @ 12:30pm CDT

Weren't we already told this?

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068884)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 28th, 2010 @ 1:17pm CDT

Well at least we'll now know if it was these two morons that ruined the movies or if it was just bay.

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068887)
Posted by Requiem Prime on April 28th, 2010 @ 1:23pm CDT

GOOD. GOD. NO! The actors in their last truly horrible movie didn't even know what was going on. I'll bet THEY (the writers) didn't know.

Okay, okay; *deep breath*. Maybe Bay is the problem. Star Trek was a lot better (that is to say I enjoyed it, not that was merely not bad), so they can tell a fairly decent adventure. Who knows, perhaps their style is better suited to a show format.

You're killing me Hasbro

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068892)
Posted by Dagon on April 28th, 2010 @ 1:39pm CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:Well at least we'll now know if it was these two morons that ruined the movies or if it was just bay.

As under the radar as such a revelation will probably fly, and as much as movie fans will deny that anything movie related was less than tremendous, I think this is a pretty solid statement. If you bad mouth the story or the actual film, the 'blame' for 'ruining' the films is always shifted around from these two to Bay to me as a human being who had nothing to do with the movie, so I think yes, this may give us all a party where we can at least say "Well, look at how Prime turned out...." before we get lynched by movie fanatics.

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068900)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 28th, 2010 @ 2:09pm CDT

Requiem Prime wrote:Okay, okay; *deep breath*. Maybe Bay is the problem. Star Trek was a lot better (that is to say I enjoyed it, not that was merely not bad), so they can tell a fairly decent adventure. Who knows, perhaps their style is better suited to a show format.

They also did The Proposal, which I found to be both hilarious and heart-warming. I think it was just Bay's tampering that affected the movies. If you watc hthe audio commentaries, Bay points out a lot of things in the movies that we didn't like yet he did like because they were his ideas (mostly some random humor stuff).

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068901)
Posted by BattleRoller23 on April 28th, 2010 @ 2:11pm CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:Well at least we'll now know if it was these two morons that ruined the movies or if it was just bay.

Bay.

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068905)
Posted by Vicalliose on April 28th, 2010 @ 2:18pm CDT

At this point, I'm fully assuming that this show is what Clone Wars is to the Star Wars franchise.
So even if it is any better than the writing for the actual movie, it still takes place within a scrap continuity for me, thus I wont be watching it.

On the bright side of this, I wont be wasting any money on the toys for TF: Prime so I can stay focused on the Generations line, and any TFA toys I still want! :APPLAUSE:

Edit:

Megatron Wolf wrote:Well at least we'll now know if it was these two morons that ruined the movies or if it was just bay.

I'd take things like this as a guide into that matter.

TFWiki wrote:Orci and Kurtzman said the twins' portrayal was not in their script, that they were disappointed in the characters and admitted that they could understand if others were offended by the characters.

Re: Kurtzman and Orci on Transformers: Prime (1068931)
Posted by T-Macksimus on April 28th, 2010 @ 4:03pm CDT

Keeping in line with what some of the others are also saying, I don't think it was these 2 that were responsible for what folks are hating most about the TF films. Even with Star Trek they had to keep in line with what Abrams had envisioned for the movie. In the case of Transformers:Prime, these boys, I'm sure, will have everyone at Hasbro watching them like hawks. They may be as thrilled as 2 kids in a candy store to be working on this project but I'm also pretty sure there will be feeling more pressure on them to NOT screw this up than Bay ever placed on them for the movie scripts. The movies only gave them the chance to have a majority of fans pissed off at them. TF:Prime will give them the chance to have ALL the fans PLUS Hasbro ripping them new ones if they screw this up.