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Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:21 pm
by ReDPATH
Wait I thought Bay said he wanted to potentially bring back Shia down the line?

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... ia-176284/

Unless he plans on combining the new cast with the old cast in TF6 then you can guarantee the bots/cons will only get about 10 minutes screen time from TF6 onward.

Interview bit.

TMZ: So Michael, let’s talk about the fact that… you know.. you had couple of your Transformers Stars… you know… have some not-so-kind-things to say.

Michael: Listen guys, you got to understand, fame is very hard on young people. It’s… I kind of helped raise Shia for three movies. And it’s… it’s really tough. Fame is a very rough thing. And you know Shia LaBeouf is a great, great guy. He’s a great actor. And I have nothing but respect for him.

TMZ: Did you take offense or did it hurt when he said…

Michael: No, No.

TMZ: …His comment about not enough creativity doing these big blockbusters?

Michael: What he’s saying is he wants to be taken seriously. And sometimes when you’re in a blockbuster, people don’t take you seriously. You know? I think that’s what he’s really saying. He’s going through more of a smaller role.

TMZ: He’s in his Art House Stage now.

Michael: You know… listen… he’s only 26.

TMZ: So he will be back?

Michael: He will be back.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:22 pm
by Bubbah
ReDPATH wrote:Wait I thought Bay said he wanted to potentially bring back Shia down the line?

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... ia-176284/

Unless he plans on combining the new cast with the old cast in TF6 then you can guarantee the bots/cons will only get about 10 minutes screen time from TF6 onward.

Interview bit.

TMZ: So Michael, let’s talk about the fact that… you know.. you had couple of your Transformers Stars… you know… have some not-so-kind-things to say.

Michael: Listen guys, you got to understand, fame is very hard on young people. It’s… I kind of helped raise Shia for three movies. And it’s… it’s really tough. Fame is a very rough thing. And you know Shia LaBeouf is a great, great guy. He’s a great actor. And I have nothing but respect for him.

TMZ: Did you take offense or did it hurt when he said…

Michael: No, No.

TMZ: …His comment about not enough creativity doing these big blockbusters?

Michael: What he’s saying is he wants to be taken seriously. And sometimes when you’re in a blockbuster, people don’t take you seriously. You know? I think that’s what he’s really saying. He’s going through more of a smaller role.

TMZ: He’s in his Art House Stage now.

Michael: You know… listen… he’s only 26.

TMZ: So he will be back?

Michael: He will be back.


I read that more as a "he'll be back in the limelight doing blockbusters" or working with Bay again, not necessarily back in TFs ... But who knows what he meant. Bay isn't exactly known for being honest about anything haha

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:29 am
by Just Negare
Hopefully they don't cast any models. Those ho bags can't act.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:13 am
by Sabrblade
Just Negare wrote:Hopefully they don't cast any models. Those ho bags can't act.
What if they cast an actress who also happens to model. :twisted:

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:23 am
by Rodimus Prime
Technically, the Transformers appearing in the films are "models" as well, right? CGI models?

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:36 pm
by Dammitman
I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:55 pm
by Sabrblade
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:03 pm
by SKYWARPED_128
Sabrblade wrote:
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.


Either way, I have a feeling they'll change his name from Buster to something else. They turned Spike into Sam, probably to make the character sound more "normal." Or, they might preserve Buster as a nickname or something.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:14 pm
by Sabrblade
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.


Either way, I have a feeling they'll change his name from Buster to something else. They turned Spike into Sam, probably to make the character sound more "normal." Or, they might preserve Buster as a nickname or something.
Wahlberg is playing the father of the lead role, which is that of a high school girl.

The Witwickys' story is practically done, and using another one kinda goes against the whole "fresh take with new characters" ordeal.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:54 pm
by Rodimus Prime
Sabrblade wrote:
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.



In what DreamWave comic did Buster appear? I remember Spike, but not Buster.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:05 pm
by Sabrblade
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.



In what DreamWave comic did Buster appear? I remember Spike, but not Buster.
He was mentioned in some of the earlier ones, and appeared toward the end talking to Marissa Faireborn in his office in D.C. His face was obscured a bit, though, cutting off the top half.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:12 pm
by Rodimus Prime
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:In what DreamWave comic did Buster appear? I remember Spike, but not Buster.
He was mentioned in some of the earlier ones, and appeared toward the end talking to Marissa Faireborn in his office in D.C. His face was obscured a bit, though, cutting off the top half.


Got a title and issue number? :-B

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:28 pm
by Sabrblade
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:In what DreamWave comic did Buster appear? I remember Spike, but not Buster.
He was mentioned in some of the earlier ones, and appeared toward the end talking to Marissa Faireborn in his office in D.C. His face was obscured a bit, though, cutting off the top half.


Got a title and issue number? :-B
Mentioned in "Prime Directive #1" and ongoing issue #9 "Lost and Found". Appeared in ongoing issue #10 "The Route of All Evil".

Also mentioned in book 1 of the Keepers Trilogy, "Hardwired".

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:16 am
by SKYWARPED_128
Sabrblade wrote:
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Dammitman wrote:I can see Mark as Sam's big brother Buster (see original Marvel comics) but let's face it. Bay's movies made their money on name and Peter Cullin alone. The movies were craptacular at best and with Revenge of the fallen just plain crap.
Buster was the younger Witwicky brother in Marvel. He was the older bro in Dreamwave.


Either way, I have a feeling they'll change his name from Buster to something else. They turned Spike into Sam, probably to make the character sound more "normal." Or, they might preserve Buster as a nickname or something.
Wahlberg is playing the father of the lead role, which is that of a high school girl.

The Witwickys' story is practically done, and using another one kinda goes against the whole "fresh take with new characters" ordeal.



Good point.

But then again, Bay said DOTM was his last movie, and yet here he is for TF4. The "fresh take with new characters" thing could mean anything, and there's nothing to stop them from going back on their word and giving us more of the same.

Technically, even if Wahlberg played Sam's older brother, it would still be considered a fresh take as long as the parents and Sam aren't featured in the movie. It'd be a new direction, just with another Witwicky.

Just my two cents' worth.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:02 am
by El Duque
Update: Michael Bay has updated his official website with a message that this informatin is false:

Michael Bay wrote:Actor announcement on some web sites last night about Transformer cast joining Mark are completely false.




Those of you who have been keeping up with the Transformers 4 casting news as it trickles out will likely remember the news from last month that director Michael Bay had narrowed down his list of potential young actresses and actors to play Wahlberg's daughter and her boyfriend. twitch is reporting the selections have been made and we can look forward to seeing Nicola Peltz and Brenton Thwaites in these roles. According to twitch Thwaites will play "Peltz's biker boyfriend", though initial casting reports stated the character was a race car driver from Texas.

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Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:08 am
by Sabrblade
Hmm... they aren't big names, though the girl's known from Shyamalan's The Last Airbender train wreck (she played Katara).

Guess we'll have to wait and see how they do.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:14 am
by PrymeStriker
Gee, more teen demographic appeal. Yay. :-|

At first I was excited. Now, a great big cloud of pessimism hovers over me. I've lost interest.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:25 am
by MINDVVIPE
:lol: The movies are so lame, I'm sure nothing will change.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:27 am
by Sabrblade
PrymeStriker wrote:Gee, more teen demographic appeal. Yay. :-|
You really expected anything else? At least these two look more like high school-aged teenagers this time.

Plus, they're relatively unknowns. They have more of a clean slate to start off with than Shia did, so we'll get to see them in these roles without too much of their past work to base them on.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:58 am
by Burn
HA! More Australians!

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:57 am
by Rodimus Prime
Never heard of either of them. Looking forward to their "performances."

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 2:13 am
by Doubledealer93
dont care who they are. the more i see castings for TF4 the more i dont care about the humans in it. the robots should be the star of the movies. not these idiots. probably the only thing i will care about from the new movie are the toys.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 2:33 am
by Megatronsdemise666
So since someone is supposed to be a racecar driver.
Will that mean the wreckers are back?

The girl is pretty but I hope her role is actually a good role not just eye candy.

And as for the male character. I really dont know.

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 2:59 am
by ausbot
I look at it this way, the crappy movies sponsor the Generations figures!

Re: Transformers 4 casting news ... Mark Wahlberg announced!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:55 am
by Mykltron
It makes to change to have a teenager played by a teenager.