Interview with Screenwriter Christina Hodson on Transformers Bumblebee Movie, and Reshoots

I am SO excited to announce that I will be HOSTING the 2018 MTV EMA’s in Bilbao!!! I might just have to perform a new song while I’m there. I can’t wait my loves! #MTVEMA @mtvema

Amelie wrote:The levels of photoshop weirdness going on in that photo is staggering.

Amelie wrote:The levels of photoshop weirdness going on in that photo is staggering.

Rodimus Knight wrote:I use photoshop a lot and I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "weirdness"? It seems like the average use of photoshop for promotional materials.

Amelie wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:I use photoshop a lot and I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "weirdness"? It seems like the average use of photoshop for promotional materials.

She has two shoulders. On the same side of her body.

Rodimus Knight wrote:Nah, it's just Shoulder Cleavage. lol

Boobs! Just photoshop boobs and cleavage everywhere!

On a more serious note - I might actually bother to see this movie in the pictures. I didn't on any others after the 2007 one and the Bumblebee movie looks (at least) some step in the right direction.

Hasbro’s TRANSFORMERS and Universal CityWalk Present Buzz Weekend

Who:
Jorge Lendeborg Jr., one of the stars of Hasbro and Paramount Pictures upcoming new film Bumblebee, will officially kickoff Buzz Weekend at Universal CityWalk.

What:
Buzz Weekend is a 2-day celebration of everyone’s favorite Transformer, Bumblebee and kicks off on Saturday, October 13 at 12 noon in anticipation of his first movie out December 21!

More Than Meets the Eye activities for the whole family include:

· Bumblebee’s ‘80s Dance Party
· Airbrush Tattoo Station
· Bumblebee Green Screen Photo Booth
· Fun Bumblebee and Transformers content on the Giant Screen
· Display of the Latest Exciting Bumblebee and Transformers Products

When:
Saturday, October 13 – Sunday October 14
12pm – 4pm

Where:
Universal CityWalk
5 Towers Stage (located adjacent to the Universal Cinema)
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Come and #JoinTheBuzz

Bumblebee is in theaters December 21, 2018
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.

SillyMcGilly wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:That footage fills me with absolute dread. Keep that G1-stuff out of my movieverse, cheers. Those scenes don't even gel. It's like it flips to some video game and back again.

If you consider that AoE and TLK opted for more smooth and humanoid designs, this actually fits. I admit I was confused at first, but once I realized it was real I was so so happy.

People, this is a reboot. Call it that or not, they're TRYING to break continuity of design. Remember when Marvel redesigned Hulk in the MCU? Yes Tony Stark appeared in The Incredible Hulk, and just like with this Transformers movie, Marvel intentionally forgot about that movie's ideas and designs WITHOUT ruining the plot continuity too much, EVEN with the change of an actor for Bruce Banner. I think a series of giant TRANSFORMING METAL ROBOTS who can CHANGE THEIR DESIGNS PURPOSEFULLY makes MUCH more sense to experiment with, and can work beautifully.

Plus this is an incredible way to kickstart the possibility of successful Transformers movies once again by adding LITERAL familiar faces to make jaded fans to the movies become more curious, AND to draw many new fans into the brand as a whole by giving them a big screen representation (or remake) of that original cartoon in a way. It works, and it works beautifully, regardless of everyone who don't want their pissing and swearing messes of metal to be touched with the ichiness of those horrrrribly outdaaated Saturday morning caartewwns. (And yes, I do enjoy SOME of the movie designs. Hell, I loved Dark of the Moon.)

Also shatup, Astrotrain looks awesome.

Deadput wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote: Keep that G1-stuff out of my movieverse, cheers.

Isn't it a little late for that?

What are they gonna do just suddenly take it out of the movie? Go back in time to change it?

As much as I like the previous films we have had 5 films for us, I think it's time for a little fanservice for those who haven't had a live action version of the G1 designs.

Preach it.

Named after Arnie’s iconic action hero (“with the proper pronunciation like the awesome Barbarian, not the awesome talk-show host,” confirms director Travis Knight), the canine companion is just another thing for Bumblebee to try and get his metal head around when he joins forces with Charlie. “When Bumblebee encounters this creature, he tries to figure out how to communicate with him,” Knight tells Empire in the upcoming Review of the Year issue. “Him just trying to exist in a normal human domicile does not go very well.”

From the trailers, Bumblebee is looking like a warmer, more Amblin-esque entry into the series, and is the first live-action Transformers movie not to be directed by Michael Bay. Read Empire’s Bumblebee trailer breakdown with Travis Knight here, and read plenty more about the film in the December issue of Empire, on sale on 1 November.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:So I remember saying during the whole craze of the G1 designs that the protoforms we say in the first movie were probably forms they adapted for travel and not their actual cybertronian forms. And it turns out I'm partially right: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transition_form This actually gives a canon explanation as to how we can have G1 style Cybertronian forms despite their appearance in the first movie.

Sabrblade wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:So I remember saying during the whole craze of the G1 designs that the protoforms we say in the first movie were probably forms they adapted for travel and not their actual cybertronian forms. And it turns out I'm partially right: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transition_form This actually gives a canon explanation as to how we can have G1 style Cybertronian forms despite their appearance in the first movie.

That page is talking about specifically the comet/meteor modes as the Transition forms, not the rocky robot modes of the Protoforms.