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O.K. Help me out here. I just cant think of were the next transformers movie should take place!!!!!!!! I was curious on what you guys are thinking. Please let me know






btw,other than the USA


Jazz 4

Let's see, American film company, American director, American writers, American band name (Hasbro), American actors, American intended audience, American first film, BUT one of the secondary female characters is Australian, so it's obviously going to be set in Australia!

Justicity wrote:Let's see, American film company, American director, American writers, American band name (Hasbro), American actors, American intended audience, American first film, BUT one of the secondary female characters is Australian, so it's obviously going to be set in Australia!

Oh your funny
I'm not saying I dont like America, but alot of movies take place in America so I'm just looking for something diffrent. However, I do appriciate the comment

Jazz 4

Jazz 4 wrote:

Justicity wrote:Let's see, American film company, American director, American writers, American band name (Hasbro), American actors, American intended audience, American first film, BUT one of the secondary female characters is Australian, so it's obviously going to be set in Australia!

Oh your funny
I'm not saying I dont like America, but alot of movies take place in America so I'm just looking for something diffrent. However, I do appriciate the comment

Jazz 4

The reason for that is because the films you're talking about (not most films, just the big Hollywood blockbusters which is not the majority of films, you just hear more about them) are made by Americans. The American film market is huge, so you could expect the ones you hear about to be American and so set in America.

There's also a reason American films take place in America. Right, imagine the cost of taking a whole filming crew, cast, props, set designs, etc across to another state. That's quite a bit already.
Now imagine that same trip but rather than going to another state, imagine it's all placed on a few planes/boats and shipped over to a whole different country. THAT is expensive.
Now consider that all films have a budget. Now consider that CGI effects have to be paid for and realise that exotic locations = less robot screen time. What would you prefer, Transformers in the USA or 2 dimensional, shallow human cast in Russia?

Also in the case of Transformers, it's one big advertising campaign for GMC and a show case for the Army's vehicles so if it weren't set in America it'd be a bit difficult as they wouldn't exactly be disguised... A Peterbilt 379 in the UK??? It'd stick out like a sore thumb! A F-22 Raptor? Don't be so silly, when have they been in France XD
And new bots wouldn't even have modes based on American vehicles so they wouldn't be advertising.
That is the sad truth about TF the movies....


Now, if we're talking about where would we like it to take place if budget weren't a problem and it weren't one big advert then anyone who doesn't say the good ol' UK is a bloody loony!!!

Michael Bay cut his directors fee to keep the movie costs down and to have it made in america with american crews the ones specifically he wanted to work with that is.

This is based on the american interpretation of the G1 franchise which took place primarily in the united states south western region so it was no surprise to me at all to keep it that way for the first movie.

There were also locations namely Iraq or as it was to appear to be Iraq as it had present day military interests in the movie in mind but those scenes were filmed in the California deserts for cost reasons of course...no real reason to ship and film everything over there let alone the logistics of doing so would have been insane to say the least.

There has been "buzz" and I'll leave it at that for now of the next movie or third movie taking place or at least partially on Cybertron and I think they need to do this, it would be hugely more expensive to do so but after what the first movie accomplished their budget should be sufficient enough to do that in any of the two planned sequels.

***Galvatron*** wrote:There has been "buzz" and I'll leave it at that for now of the next movie or third movie taking place or at least partially on Cybertron and I think they need to do this, it would be hugely more expensive to do so but after what the first movie accomplished their budget should be sufficient enough to do that in any of the two planned sequels.

Well of course it would be expensive, it costs to much to transport a film crew to Iraq, imagine the costs for a shuttle to Cybertron

I'm kidding of course, I know it would be expensive for all that GCI. Annoyingly in a few years I'll hopefully be a CGI artist and would work on TF for free XD But Transformers the movies will be done & dusted by the time I'm out of university and have a good job.

Justicity wrote:Let's see, American film company, American director, American writers, American band name (Hasbro), American actors, American intended audience, American first film, BUT one of the secondary female characters is Australian, so it's obviously going to be set in Australia!

No! No! No! No! You got it all wrong. It's going to be Zimbabwe.

You are all wrong! The next film will take place...UNDERGROUND

Actually it turns out to all exist in the autistic kid's mind.

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