JazZeke wrote:And a movie that copies the premise of IDW's -Ations would be brilliant. Some humans stumble into the middle of a covert alien war going on right under our noses. Bring back the "disguise" element. Have the robots actually talk in their car modes and you can still characterize them while saving a shitton on the CGI budget. This is painfully obvious stuff to anyone with half a brain.
That's one of the main reasons I thought of basing new films on early IDWverse. The Holomatter Avatar's are a great way of keeping the cost down. Easier to show personality to the general audiences too.
ZeroWolf wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The first three stories of IDWverse could easily be adapted into a potential trilogy.
Megatron: Origin - Stormbringer - Infiltration
Potentially using some of the Spotlights as character background pieces to flesh out the principle cast. If they really want the next Transformers films to stand out from Bayformers, adding character depth to the Cybertronians themselves would do that easily.
See i would put infiltration first, with Megatron origin, stormbringer and another pre-earth tale as a prequel trilogy. The main -tion series would be a fine trilogy with a bit of tweaking (if the commitment is in place to set nova prime up as a thanos type enemy then by all means leave the dead universe hints there)
See, there is a method to my selection. Origin first to give us the dawn of the War. Your protagonist being Megatron himself will surprise many accustomed to Bayformers.
The "Beginning" movie.
Stormbringer next gives us why their Civil War bled out beyond Cybertron. Namely an Engine of Destruction forced them to leave a dying world. I also put Stormbringer here as it does have some connected scenes to Spotlights and such. Making it the kind of film with hidden teasers of sequels.
Infiltration would, through Hunter, Verity and ...Jimmy! (couldn't remember him offhand)show us how their civil war became a galaxy-wide Great War. Keep most of it the same IE Ratchet as the Autobot POV, explaining the Six Phase Protocol to the audience.
This is important. As instead of robots mashing into each other ala Bayformers, they would be demonstrating this is a strategic, calculated war effort. Fought across multiple fronts with clear structure and battle scenarios in place.
Continuing with IDWverse beyond that:
1)Swap out D-Void for Unicron (obviously)
2)Ignore AHM, the retcon and everything else from the -Ations that it messed up. Don't need anymore depictions of the Sunbow war onscreen.
