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News Credits: 1350 · Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:30 pm

I wasn't defending that bit of the scene though. I'm just defending humans killing a tf. I'll give you that bay should never write a movie (RotF could have been a different movie had it been completed after the writers strike), I'll also give you that it was a complete waste of devy but I suspect hasbro wanted to sell toys which is fair enough. But humans should be allowed to kill tfs. We are a very capable species at building good effective ways to kill things. Tfs would be no different.

News Credits: 19 · Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:45 pm

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Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:04 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I wasn't defending that bit of the scene though. I'm just defending humans killing a tf. I'll give you that bay should never write a movie (RotF could have been a different movie had it been completed after the writers strike), I'll also give you that it was a complete waste of devy but I suspect hasbro wanted to sell toys which is fair enough. But humans should be allowed to kill tfs. We are a very capable species at building good effective ways to kill things. Tfs would be no different.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with humans killing a TF, just how it was handled in that instance. It seemed out of left field and bit clumsy.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:19 pm

Yeah but again it was written by bay, and no doubt endorsed by hasbro and paramount who wanted the film out on time. Still I rather a more traditional combiner in the next film or one of the spinoffs, I'm not picky

News Credits: 37 · Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:59 pm

Apparently Hasbro's new Allspark Pictures will be overseeing the content in future TF movies. As much as I like Bay's raw and "don't give a damn" style of directing, I guess this'll be good news for the people complaining about his style not being fitting for a movie aimed at selling toys to children. I'm just glad Transformers has its own studio now.

http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/01/17/hasb ... ies-307848

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:26 pm

It will be interesting to see how they handle the toy lines for the main movie and its sister movies, once they get going of course.

Which other movies are supposed to take place within the movie universe now then?

News Credits: 19 · Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:15 pm

pity Bay could'nt've tackled a live action Challenge Of The Gobots instead of Transformers! as noone yet has done that.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:51 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:pity Bay could'nt've tackled a live action Challenge Of The Gobots instead of Transformers! as noone yet has done that.

The irony in that is that the GoBots five-part pilot featured a greater military presence in just those five episodes than there ever was in the entirety of the G1 cartoon.

News Credits: 19 · Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:31 pm

funny thing is....some of the transformers voice actors also did voices for the Gobots! which includes Peter Cullen & Frank Welker, so they could've also done the voices for the live action characters too! had there been a live action Gobots movie

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:08 pm

Via a number of sources across the internet, but converging to an interview that director Michael Bay (and John Krasinski) sat through with Dean Richards of WGN Radio, we have news that the new instalment in the Paramount Transformers live-action movie series will see a return to Chicago during the filming process. While they don't mention too much, Bay did say:

he plans to be back in Chicago sometime later this year. The film is scheduled for a 2017 release, with plans already in the works for two more "Transformers" movies after that. Billion-dollar revenues will do that.

"You going to blow up Michigan Avenue again?" Richards asks Bay in his interview (at the 5:40 mark). "No, we're gonna find a new street," Bay said. "But I love Chicago." And then, referring to some of the city's systemic problems, including gun violence, added dryly: "We'll come in with some Transformers to even it out."

Check out the full interview - which is about 13 Hours - here.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:11 pm

So 2 more movies planned bringing the total to 7...now is that numbered films or does include unannounced spin offs.

News Credits: 19 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:30 pm

spin offs

Probably

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:41 pm

Poor chicago. 3 movies in a row getting blown to scrap :lol:

News Credits: 3642 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:48 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Poor chicago. 3 movies in a row getting blown to scrap

Don't forget about Spike Lee's Chi-Raq!

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:57 pm

Seibertron wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Poor chicago. 3 movies in a row getting blown to scrap

Don't forget about Spike Lee's Chi-Raq!

Chicago should be renamed the survivor city. It has been destroyed and tormented all too much

Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:59 pm

I guess there's little incentive to make something differen, when you make the same movie three times in a row and make hundreds of millions of dollars every time.

Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:30 pm

2017 release date? lol how will they get this movie finished by then?

News Credits: 19 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:33 pm

griftimus prime wrote:2017 release date? lol how will they get this movie finished by then?

Please! it's Michael Bay! he'll throw it together at the last minute(or the film will feel like he did)

News Credits: 226 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:01 pm

griftimus prime wrote:2017 release date? lol how will they get this movie finished by then?

Six months filming, six months post-production. There will be a lot of work already done in pre-production. It's quite feasible really.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:55 pm

Check out the full interview - which is about 13 Hours - here.

good lord that is a long interview

News Credits: 2 · Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:58 pm

NICE!!!

News Credits: 47 · Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:58 am

Knowing Bay, he'll get it done.

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Jan 31, 2016 3:19 am

As we had heard in a recent interview, the next Paramount/Michael Bay Transformers live-action feature will see a 2017 release date - but thanks to My Entertainment World and fellow Seibertronian Survivefan23, we have confirmation of the beginning of the works (though not a definite location other than the Chicago stories): May 2016. Do you think there is enough time to make it all work? Let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

Title: Transformers 5
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Shoot Date: May, 2016
Location:

Sun Jan 31, 2016 4:08 am

Apart from some lackluster elements the first Transformers movie was good. ROTF was a bit of a mess story wise and didn't make much sense. It has it's nice moments, but it still is a pain to watch with althe butchered story, lore and robots. DOTM was better since it had more robot interaction and the story, although "borrowed" from a G1 episode, was a lot better. The last Transformers movie was horrible, ihe story was as thin as paper, we have a "Decepticon" working with humans and instead of Trasnforming or converting the robots suddenly fall apart like Lego and rematerialize in another form. That is not what Transformers is about. I have seen the movie once and never want to see it again. It was ROTF all over again. This new movie, although i hope it is good, will probably be the last nail in the coffin.

News Credits: 54 · Sun Jan 31, 2016 5:04 am

DMSL wrote: DOTM was better since it had more robot interaction and the story, although "borrowed" from a G1 episode, was a lot better.

So it's better because it was using a G1 story?

Well great because everyone knows that G1 is the almighty god of Transformers and anything trying to be different is trash.

DMSL wrote: The last Transformers movie was horrible, ihe story was as thin as paper, we have a "Decepticon" working with humans and instead of Trasnforming or converting the robots suddenly fall apart like Lego and rematerialize in another form. That is not what Transformers is about. I have seen the movie once and never want to see it again. It was ROTF all over again. This new movie, although i hope it is good, will probably be the last nail in the coffin.

Well good thing is there were no Decepticons working with humans in the last movie you must be confused with Lockdown a character who is not a Decepticon or an Autobot.

Another good thing is that the Transformers do Transform it's the human built robots who Transform different I mean how dare they try to make them seem different from the real ones something new heresy I say!