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News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:05 pm

Transformers Movie director Michael Bay recently spoke with Rottentomatoes.com and has announced that, while the Hollywood writers strike may only be hours away from ending (the WGA is expected to make an annoucement tuesday night), he has already prepared an outline himself and is determined to have the film finished for its June 26th 2009 release date.

Read the article on Rottentomatoes by clicking here.

It looks like the Writer's Guild strike could end any day now. But while Michael Bay is not only ready to jump back into development on Transformers 2, it turns out he's already finished writing the story.

"I've been writing Transformers 2," said Bay. "We've got our characters all designed. I always write all my scripts, my movies anyway so at least I've got something to give the writers. It's like a template. We have a really good outline so I worked on that."

It might be a tad unorthodox, but Bay has high pressure demands. "We had to because I want to make my date. I'm not going to let the strike take me down."

Now that the major effects of transforming moving parts have been figured out, Bay has all sorts of new characters in store for the sequel. "When you do your first movie, you break the back of it. Now we can have a lot more fun. We can actually make the depth of these characters more fun and a lot more interesting characters. To see actually what you can achieve visually, you never know. When you go into a movie, you never know visually. I think I've got a lot of fun, interesting, funny characters."

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:13 pm

A full template, great, it gets them to work letting the writers just flesh it out later. Absolutely no problem with that!

I respect him for keeping things on track.

However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

However I do have to say I look forward to what's in store for us, it seems like he's going for a progressive story with this franchise and not just repeating more of the same ol' like most movies do.

News Credits: 21 · by **Skice** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:16 pm

oh ****..... :BOOM:

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:23 pm

Speaking as a professional writer - this could be bad. It makes me uncomfortable to regulate three veteran script writers to "ghost writer" status. My strongest fear is that the pacing of the storytelling could be off and may not lend itself to developing stronger characters or a compelling plot.

But speaking as a Transformers fan - I want things blown up. Michael Bay, I have faith you can deliver.

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:24 pm

caricter developmet, fascinating, cinsiderng all bay does is blow sh*t up

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:28 pm

Wait has he finished writing the entire script or just the outline and concept designs? I pray to all that is holly that he didnt write the script himself. If he wrote it himself not only will he never stop bragging but it will most likely suck. A lot.Sure the explosions will be awesome as will the battle scenes but the dialog and story (if any) will be horrid.

EDIT: I just thought of this.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:28 pm

Man I'd hate to have to read a Bay written script.

It'd be like reading a 2nd graders report on the New Years Eve fireworks.

Not to mention that he has probably changed all the "lame names" like Ratchet and Bumblebee to "cool names" like Hacksaw and Destroyer. :roll:

The poor writers will probably have to spend more time making his script usable than they would have spent writing their own from scratch.

News Credits: 9 · by **Zeds** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:30 pm

Well done Michael! I am sure that it will be as much of a success or more successful than the 2007 movie!

by **Autobot Snake Eyes** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:36 pm

ah...****.

:BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1 · by **Brakethrough** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:20 pm

Like him or not, folks, you have to give him credit for sticking to this project and showing commitment to the franchise.

News Credits: 3 · by **Autobot Jazz** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:21 pm

Ultra Magnus wrote:I can't deal with that now!

My feelings on this script and I'm sure Magnus would feel the same.

by **polystyleneman** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:44 pm

Just when you thought that prospects for a second Transformers flick couldn't be any worse...

Like him or not, folks, you have to give him credit for sticking to this project and showing commitment to the franchise.

Um, no you don't. He'd only deserve credit if he handed the project off to somebody with a clue about how to make a movie and go off and make a car commercial.

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:45 pm

Hmm, if Bay finished writing it. And he's added character development. Why do I see lines like this coming up.

Sam: So, Sunstreaker what do you do?

Sunstreaker: I enjoy blowing up cars and buses with massive firey explosions that can be filmed by 37 different helicopters.

Sam: Well, thats great, hey Bumblebee what are you doing?

Bumblebee: Not now Sam, me and Ironhide are playing Massive Car Explosion 5000 for the X-box 360, it has 8000 more renderings of explosions than the PS3!

Mountaindewbot: EXPLODE YOUR THIRST EXPLOOOOOODE!

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:14 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

I want to apologize to everyone for this - I really didn't know how to phrase the title. It needed to be short but clear, and after 10 minutes I still didn't know how to put it.

If anyone else has a better, more appropriate title - please let me know, it's been one of those days and I can't think properly...

News Credits: 4 · by **capellamusic** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:22 pm

Well, I just hope he will do a good job, and hopefully better than on the first movie, or at least good as the first. I liked the movie, but I doubt there will be ever any TFs movie or cartoon I'll like better than the good ol' G1 (especially season 1, 2 and the 1986 movie). But I'm really anxious and looking forward to it, of course! Make us proud Michael Bay!

And put there Soundwave, Shockwave, Prowl and Astrotrain. If you want a new challenge, how about doing a triple changer?

by **Starlock** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:35 pm

Well if you notice its an outline for the real writers. So the bad parts of this news aren't as bad as some may want to think.

Or so I hope.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:55 pm

Skowl wrote:
Liege Evilmus wrote:However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

I want to apologize to everyone for this - I really didn't know how to phrase the title. It needed to be short but clear, and after 10 minutes I still didn't know how to put it.

If anyone else has a better, more appropriate title - please let me know, it's been one of those days and I can't think properly...

Respectfuly...

- Bay finishes TF2 template script

- TF2 progressing w/ Bay outline script

- TF2 outlined, don't panic yet

- Liege Evilmus Kicks Ass

I think any of these would work :wink:

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:19 pm

Let the fleshing out begin :-)

The strike is officially over.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hollywood_la ... 38wqxxFb8C

by **SoooTrypticon** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:58 pm

Call me a hater, but I must give credit where credit is due.

I too have completed outlines for countless Hollywood blockbusters- it took some serious drinking, at truck stops, during all night benders that went late late into the morning- and let me tell you- writing on napkins with activity crayons (the cheap kind) is tough stuff.

But it's worth it. Man oh man, does it make some good movies.

It makes cool characters like Dispensor and the up and coming Nintenja, "the street talking wise cracking transformer ninja/video game system." He's a great character, with memorable lines like, "Nintenja gonna put his game on!"

I also draw lots of figure eights and dot the insides to make them into breasts. This reminds me to put more breasts in the movie.

And when I think of breasts- I think of explosions.

I think of robots who only live to explode.

The Explodicons.

And their evil enemies, the Bra-tobots.

The Explodicons fight the Bra-tobots by exploding. Huge explosions that wipe out cities, and rip the Bra-tobots wide open with firm masculine hands, exposing the millions of glistening, beautiful, jiggly, naked-

But working like this let's me also focus on making what was successful the first time around, even better.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:25 pm

SoooTrypticon wrote:Call me a hater, but I must give credit where credit is due.

I too have completed outlines for countless Hollywood blockbusters- it took some serious drinking, at truck stops, during all night benders that went late late into the morning- and let me tell you- writing on napkins with activity crayons (the cheap kind) is tough stuff.

But it's worth it. Man oh man, does it make some good movies.

It makes cool characters like Dispensor and the up and coming Nintenja, "the street talking wise cracking transformer ninja/video game system." He's a great character, with memorable lines like, "Nintenja gonna put his game on!"

I also draw lots of figure eights and dot the insides to make them into breasts. This reminds me to put more breasts in the movie.

And when I think of breasts- I think of explosions.

I think of robots who only live to explode.

The Explodicons.

And their evil enemies, the Bra-tobots.

The Explodicons fight the Bra-tobots by exploding. Huge explosions that wipe out cities, and rip the Bra-tobots wide open with firm masculine hands, exposing the millions of glistening, beautiful, jiggly, naked-

But working like this let's me also focus on making what was successful the first time around, even better.

I do this constantly for nil with nothing more than hope edging me on, and still have to wake up for a crappy 9-5 which always runs over every friggin day. Frig, case in point, its 11:41pm, and I'm still working even at HOME!

Considering a night of drinking in a dive as work is a blessing envy you for enjoying!

Cause for some of us, the 2 seconds with out the phone ringing in the morning while sneaking a sip of coffee on the can is our only chance at free time in the day to mull over back of the mind thoughts that we need to get to that not only beat ideas like Dispensors ass, but drag us deeper cause we haven't been gifted with union jobs that let us just drink and play Guitar Hero waiting for an idea while a bong gets passed around.

Yet somehow we still trudge on and do what we can while producing our ideas, while still paying rent with a job based so far away!

Poor professional writers having to drink all night hoping to think of something new, while rubes like so many of us do it naturaly even when we don't want to, and are lucky enough to be underpayed and struggling to pay the rent.

Here's hoping their bars are generious on buy backs :cry:

by **Booda** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:48 pm

I smell just a little bit of that misinformation that he promised earlier on in the project.

Wrote the whole thing himself? He knows that'd roil a few people.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:00 am

If Michael Bay had done Star Wars... the explosion of Death Star wouldn't have been computer-generated :lol:

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:51 am

[quote="Liege Evilmus"Poor professional writers having to drink all night hoping to think of something new, while rubes like so many of us do it naturaly even when we don't want to, and are lucky enough to be underpayed and struggling to pay the rent.[/quote][/quote]

Wait. Lucky?

:???: