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Roberto Orci has said his goodbyes for himself and his writing partner Alex Kurtzman on Don Murphy's Message Board. With 104 days until the Transformers Movie opens, their work is about to finish. The following has been taken from Roberto Orci's post.

"Our involvement in Transformers is finally coming to an end. As such, this will be our last 48 hours on this forum. From now on, anything you want to say about Transformers will have to go through the official site if you want it to get to us.

Alex and Michael Bay and I have been re-writing and making the movie as good as it can be until the last possible minute. We are almost out of time. We think you are gonna like it.

Alex and I want to thank Don Murphy and Tom Desanto for having the original instinct that Transformers could be a live action ground breaker.

We especially want to thank everyone on this board, who informed and challenged our thinking all along the way, and who participated in a cutting edge experiment in fan interaction.

All the best,

Bob and Alex".

Uhm...well...goodbye...

wow

Don't come back now you here.

I think it's great that they have been communicating with the fans. I can't wait to see the final product of the script. I enjoyed the rough draft from February 2006. It's what really turned me from having a few too many negative thoughts about the movie to really thinking this has the potential to be a big summer blockbuster. I still have my reservations about some of the robot designs ... but I think the storyline is pretty solid.

Eh, good luck, and bye.

The storyline may turn out good, but the makers of this film are never going to be able to change my opinion as to the TFs' appearances.

I wish the best for the writers, though.

Eh, they seem like decent folk. My best of wishes to them.

Makes me wish they posted more than....Twice on here. I would have liked to have wished them luck in a more monitor to monitor fashion. Ah well.

TheMuffin wrote:Makes me wish they posted more than....Twice on here. I would have liked to have wished them luck in a more monitor to monitor fashion. Ah well.

True, and I wanted to apologise to them. I was a rather harsh opinionated and I hate to admit, close minded person, to their writing on this film, but I don't have any vendetta towards them. I wish them the best of luck.

In the future, stay the f*** away from our childhoods. We wouldn't want any more of our favorite characters publicly raped in a similar fashion, would we?

Don't let that door hit you in the @$$ on your way out!

So they have basically said they've been re-writting the script (i'm assuming the TF bits as everything else has been filmed) right up until the last possible minute, thus proving it was all still a work in progress, and people are condemning their work. And without even seeing the final product. Some of the people on this site truly make me ashamed to be a part of this fandom.

Even if you don't like what they churn out, at least they took the time to communicate as much as they could with the "fandom".

I can't say I think the script is solid. I don't think we needed another "how / why TF's got to Earth" story. You know, really, did we need yet another conflicting continuity. I'm glad they're gone, but the damage is just beginning.

We're all hoping the script is a quality product.

Let's not turn this into a Bashing thread alright?

Fanboys will never be satisfied. I'll be enjoying the movie while you are all bitching and moaning at 2 AM on chatboards to nobody but yourselves about how your childhood was "ruined" by the film. Throw in some anime porn and your night is complete.

"Don't let that door hit you in the @$$ on your way out!"

Amen to that!


"Your failure is now complete!"

Congrats on f'n over the majority of the original fan base. We will be sure to remind you regularly and even in 10 years when VH1 has a special on major movie fk ups and how you guys thought you were smarter than the fans. I can here it now....

This is one thread that there shouldn't have been any bashing.

They had the common courtesy to thank us TF fans on this board who gave constructive criticisms. That is something I have yet to see from Bay or Murphy and, yet, some of you are posting to this thread as though it is another TF movie bash session.

"Stay the F^(k away form our childhood!" What kind of **** is that come on, you sound like Steven Colbert(he still rocks though.).

I appreciate their willingness to listen to fans, and I'm looking forward to the movie. It was cool that they wanted to communicate with us about the movie, even though in some areas we might have been ignored (such as megatron's and starscream's designs). however as far as I'm concerned that was the design staff, not the writers. Looking forward to the movie, even though theres alot of what I've SEEN that I don't agree with, hopefully the story and characters more than make up for what I feel are slight short comings (again mostly design wise. To me Starscream's design should be used for a waspinator toy, while megatron just looks nothing like megatron has, or for that matter most transformers in general)

thanks for your hard work in trying to make this a good movie. Hopefully, the movie is gonna rock, although again I am still alittle doubtful in some areas.

I assume by "listen to the fans" you guys meant "placate the fans with a false sense of input and then proceed as planned"? Right?

I wonder which Ipod will be brought to life? Nano or Shuffle...toughie.

Anyway, thanks for writing a sub-par, unintelligible, typical hollywood dreck script.

See I was positiive!:)

Burn wrote:So they have basically said they've been re-writting the script (i'm assuming the TF bits as everything else has been filmed) right up until the last possible minute, thus proving it was all still a work in progress, and people are condemning their work. And without even seeing the final product. Some of the people on this site truly make me ashamed to be a part of this fandom.

Even if you don't like what they churn out, at least they took the time to communicate as much as they could with the "fandom".

*Sigh*

I request to see your tickets stubs for White Chicks, Kangaroo Jack, Catwoman, Eragon, Bloodrayne, Alone in the Dark, and Little Man since I not allowed to judge whether or not to see a film by:
-Trailer
-Promo Art
-Photos
-Director
-Cast
-Script
-Designs
-Cast and Crew Interviews
-Respect for the Source Material (my personal favorite)

Predaprince wrote:This is one thread that there shouldn't have been any bashing.

They had the common courtesy to thank us TF fans on this board who gave constructive criticisms.

Uhhh... on this board?

Are you talking about way back when they posted on here?

Well, I'll wait until I see the movie before I really harp on their writing, but I have to admit that the lies haven't made me particularily happy with them. Lies like "The Megatron-Starscream dynamic will definently be retained" or "we were fans of Transformers from the very beginning!"