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News Credits: 665 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:43 am

Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:51 am

I'm not surprised, Bay always said there was going to be "mortality" to the TFs... :-?

News Credits: 8 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:53 am

I hope this is actualy true.

I like Jazz as much as the next guy, but let him stay dead, it gives the series more of an impact that way.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:54 am

First saw this at TFW2005 this morning.

Now about the other dead guys.

News Credits: 8 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:57 am

Whew what a relief. I thought Transformers was gonna turn into Dragonball for a minute there.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:02 pm

NOOOOOOOOOO! :sad:

I liked Jazz oh, well

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:18 pm

where did the put jazz anyway? maybe i missed it, i don't recall seeing or hearing what they did to his remains.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:25 pm

Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:29 pm

jazzrules wrote:Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

Just can't accept it, can you, Jazz?

Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:39 pm

rumours or fake news either way i'd prefer if jazz stayed dead – don't really like it when characters magically come back from the dead - yeah optimus prime included.

unfortunately due to marketing reasons etc they'll be compelled to add many new characters but i'd rather they spent more time on characterisation. I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 - 20 years cgi would come in so cheap they could have a live action tv series...

Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:44 pm

Fine. Keep jazz dead. I cant wait for the funeral scene.

Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:53 pm

Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

News Credits: 38 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:56 pm

YES! HAHHAHAAH! I am glad they are keeping death as a permanant situation.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:58 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:I hope this is actualy true.

I like Jazz as much as the next guy, but let him stay dead, it gives the series more of an impact that way.

i agree. so let this hopefully shut up the kiddies who think jazz is alive.

News Credits: 668 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:08 pm

Corrupted Rodimus wrote:
Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

Crothers would own him? Um...yeah, if he were still alive. You do know that he passed away quite some time ago, correct? O_o

And I, for one, am glad that Jazz will stay dead. I mean, I realize it's science *fiction* but let's not go too far into fiction here, let's keep it realistic. We humans don't usually say "Pwn'd. Haxx0rz. RESPAWN" so why do these robots get the chance to? Seriously, as ridiculous as the concept is (and you have to accept that TFs are ridiculous, that's part of what makes 'em fun) there is such as thing as being too much so.

Ah well.

News Credits: 8 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:10 pm

Well you know his constant toy releases may be what's putting that idea in their heads!

Again, I'm glad, but I'm also willing to bet that (if) there is a TF3 he'll be in that.

Part 3 of any series always tries to rehash as much of the first as possible (:|

so that has me thinking it's probable.

Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:13 pm

Autobot032 wrote:
Corrupted Rodimus wrote:
Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

Crothers would own him? Um...yeah, if he were still alive. You do know that he passed away quite some time ago, correct? O_o

And I, for one, am glad that Jazz will stay dead. I mean, I realize it's science *fiction* but let's not go too far into fiction here, let's keep it realistic. We humans don't usually say "Pwn'd. Haxx0rz. RESPAWN" so why do these robots get the chance to? Seriously, as ridiculous as the concept is (and you have to accept that TFs are ridiculous, that's part of what makes 'em fun) there is such as thing as being too much so.

Ah well.

You have never played an FPS,have you? ;-)

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:16 pm

THANK YOU!

I talked to people who weren't even Transformers fans and they said that bringing him back would have been incredibly foolish.

It sucks for Jazz fans, but come on... They very clearly said that they could not save him in the film...

Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:21 pm

I honestly hope that this is true and not one of those BS tactics Bay said he was going to pull out of the hat for TF2. It'd be nice to see a continuity where TF deaths are permanent and ANYONE in the chain of command is expendable.

News Credits: 70 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:26 pm

Bay is a huge douche who doesn't get the transformers universe at all. He wants to make another movie with lots of explosions and big robots. The robots are not transformers, they are walking piles of scrap.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:28 pm

The only guy that should ever come back is Megatron. Even then only once, so they eventually have to either replace Megatron with a new character Galvatron or Starscream. OR...they could kill Prime instead and leave him dead.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:38 pm

Jazz's death felt too inconsequential in the movies, but I'm glad dead does mean dead. I hope that applies to Megatron, too!

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:53 pm

Menbailee wrote:Jazz's death felt too inconsequential in the movies, but I'm glad dead does mean dead. I hope that applies to Megatron, too!

Same here. You can't have ur cake and eat it too people. If Jazz died and stayed dead so should Megatron.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:10 pm

Ahem to that...you took the words out of my mouth. If he wants to keep Jazz dead, Megatron has to remain dead at the bottom of the ocean. In terms of where Jazz was placed, it was never pointed out in the movie.