RE : The Transformers in space Rumours....
Modern (SciFi/Comic book) Movies seem to have a tendency to reference something from a comic or other source in some way and then at the same time drastically change things : sometimes those changes are not actually wrong just a little unusual and people sometimes think they are some kind of mistake when they are not.
Examples being the more soft skinned Thing in the previous FF4 Movies and Yellow Jacket being a Villain in Ant Man neither are "wrong" they are just unusual to a casual fan.
At one point fewer member of a casual audience would have been familar with the Black Spider-man costume - but now I think that is a lot more recognisable these days.
Change isn't always a bad thing - like making Batman's costume tones much darker in movies for example.
The concern I have with Transformers Movies is they like to throw references at them that they themselves barely understand or ones that perhaps many didn't even want in the 1st place.
If you were making a list of Transformers you wanted to see in a live Action Movie I can't see Sentinel Prime or Crosshairs being in very many people's top tens for example.
I just wonder if they were to say for example use Quintessons would they be odd creatures indeed - would people even be happy to see the consumer electronics/ Military & security themes of the cartoon in live action form or are those ideas as old hat now as "Lasercores" (instead of Sparks).
I don't object to some version of a Quintesson origin - I just wonder if they have the sensitivity to handle it well in live action form.
If you turn them into tentacle creatures they could be flippin' terrifying. but they'd also be unable to be the sort of character to sustain much dialogue (I wonder if they regret removing Lockdown now as he'd have been good to keep around as a go between).
I foresee if they do go that route of "Transformers in Space" in a little bit - and they do use Quintessons then it will be tricky as heck to get right. (well it's a Live action movie so they won't get it right) so instead I will hope that then embarrass themselves as little as possible when striving for the lowest common denominator again.
I would rather have something like a Movie version of Sky Lynx used as Comic relief than some human "unfunny" comedian though.
I have heard rumours of the series moving towards a space theme and eventually Unicron - but I hope they don't try to do that to quickly - best to leave people hanging a bit on that like Marvel does with Thanos.
As to the idea of where to get Movie rumours from I have found this account on Twitter useful at times in the past : @TFLAMB
Or the related website :
http://transformerslive.blogspot.co.uk/ ... um=twitter