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Some old school Italian fans of the Transformers franchise have gathered together to bring for the first time in the country, an expo/convention dedicated entirely to the robots - through name changes and all translation mishaps: Cybertrome!
The event will take place in Rome this coming May, 6-7, featuring IDW artist Guido Guidi as special guest, plus exhibitions, collections, more art, books and comics, plus the live action movie car replicas. Check out more info (in Italian) on their Facebook page.
Artist Extraordinaire Giudo Guidi has posted some artwork he did back a few years ago for IDW's Hearts of Steel Transformers storyline, and the feature of his artwork today is Scourge! Scourge was designed to transform into a blimp with giant scary batwings on the blimp mode and a Gatling gun on his head! Check out the concept art below!
As part of their ongoing Transformers Tuesday attempts, the official socialmedia accounts for The Last Knight live action movie - due from Paramount this June - have posted a new clip of cast member Isabela Moner at the Kids' Choice Awards (as covered here, with a new trailer) talking about her role as Izabella in the film. Check it out below!
Via an unrelated Wonder Woman fan Twitter account, we have news of a preview - though unsure if it'll be new footage - of Transformers: The Last Knight to be shown at the upcoming Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (Saturday March 11) - with cast member Isabela Moner attending the awards, too. Check out the shakey trailer clip below!
Some news from the land of Canada, and the TFcon Toronto event taking place this July - a new guest, in the form of previous editor and current writer on a number of Transformers (and Marvel) books: John Barber! Check out more info below.
We are very pleased to welcome Transformers comic book writer John Barber to the TFcon Toronto 2017 guest list this year for his first TFcon.
John is currently the author of the ongoing IDW comic book title Optimus Prime. He previously wrote The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and was editor of the ongoing series More than Meets the Eye. He will be appearing all weekend meeting with attendees.
We have another update from TFNation headquarters as they get ready to bring another artist to their evergrowing roster - current Till All Are One and Transformers designer and colourist extraordinaire: Sara Pitre Durocher! More details below, so check it out.
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It gives us great pleasure to announce that the artist for IDW’s TILL ALL ARE ONE, Sara Pitre-Durocher, will be making her European convention debut at TFNation 2017!
Sara first came to the attention of the TF comic fans in early 2015 with a series of stunning covers for MTMTE, WINDBLADE and RID before providing interior artwork for the one-shot COMBINER HUNTERS. After guesting on a few single issues, 2016 saw the start of TILL ALL ARE ONE, with Sara as the resident series artist. Covering the struggles of a rebuilt Cybertronian society, Starscream has never looked so delightfully devious!
As an art director at Volta creative studios, TF fans will also have seen Sara’s work elsewhere as she provided colours for many of the Combiner Wars figure packaging art and contributed work to the Transformers Legends mobile game, as well as several other iOS and browser titles.
We advise all our attendees to keep an eye on Sara’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/spewpew/ for details of her commission list, as the event draws closer.
Sara will be signing autographs, talking Starscream, hugging Combaticon fans and selling artwork at TFNation 2017 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. We look forward to seeing you there!
Fellow Seibertronian EvasionModeBumblebee has sent us a link to a new Deadline article, confirming the appointment of the director for the Paramount 2018 Bumblebee spin-off movie, which may or may not follow from the upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight movie!
The name is Travis Knight, which some of you might recognise from the excellent Laika stop-motion film Kubo and the Two Strings - but you can find out more below; give it a read, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub.
Bumblebee, the first spinoff of the Transformers franchise based on a popular character in the series, just landed as director Travis Knight, the helmer of the Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated success Kubo And The Two Strings. That film was Knight’s directing debut. Bumblebee would mark his first live-action film.
This time, Knight will be taking on a very different project, a big-budget 2018 tentpole for the studio. The screenplay, which emerged from Transformers director and Paramount’s writers room project, is from Christina Hodson. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis.
Knight, the son of Nike founder Phil Knight, is also president and CEO of Laika. Based out of Portland, the animation house was founded about 11 years ago and since then has created high-quality and beautifully created features including The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman and Coraline. Along with Kubo, Boxtrolls was also nominated for an Oscar.
We've shown you images and releases about the Transformers: The Last Knight cast and crew, including producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and director Michael May, at Toy Fair in New York last weekend - thanks to two new videos from the Associated Press, we also have some brief interviews with actors Mark Wahlberg and Josh Duhamel. They tease the upcoming Paramount movie, talk about their involvement, their families, their injuries and more, check them out for yourselves below!
Have you bought a TLK Optimus Prime Voice Changer Helmet yet? Well, a certain someone seems to have gotten their hands on one! Michael Bay posted on Instagram a picture of him wearing the helmet (mirrored below) with the caption
You better believe I bought it!!
Here's the photo of Michaelmus Prime (Bayimus Prime?), tell us in the forums if you've channeled your inner Optimus and picked one up!
Not entirely news news in the newsiest sense of the word, but it is nice to get to see the people behind the live-action movies closer to the toys that made that particular slice of the Transformers world possible. That's right, along with the actual movie prop Sqweeks from Toy Fair, Michael Bay, Josh Duhamel, Mark Wahlberg, Isabela Moner (in a new haircut!), Laura Haddock and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura were all in attendance in New York! Check out some shots below, via the various The Last Knight social media feeds.
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