Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead"

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Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

Credit(s): shootfortheedit.com, Michael Bay

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Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594751)
Posted by chrisjbrandon on January 5th, 2008 @ 10:51am CST

I'm not surprised, Bay always said there was going to be "mortality" to the TFs... :-?

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594754)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 5th, 2008 @ 10:53am CST

I hope this is actualy true.

I like Jazz as much as the next guy, but let him stay dead, it gives the series more of an impact that way.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594756)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 10:54am CST

First saw this at TFW2005 this morning.

Now about the other dead guys.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594762)
Posted by Powermaster Jazz on January 5th, 2008 @ 10:57am CST

Whew what a relief. I thought Transformers was gonna turn into Dragonball for a minute there.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594773)
Posted by Agent 007 on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:02am CST

NOOOOOOOOOO! :sad:

I liked Jazz oh, well

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594788)
Posted by crazyfists on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:18am CST

where did the put jazz anyway? maybe i missed it, i don't recall seeing or hearing what they did to his remains.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594794)
Posted by jazzrules on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:25am CST

Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594797)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:29am CST

jazzrules wrote:Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

Just can't accept it, can you, Jazz?

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594808)
Posted by frogbat on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:39am CST

rumours or fake news either way i'd prefer if jazz stayed dead – don't really like it when characters magically come back from the dead - yeah optimus prime included.

unfortunately due to marketing reasons etc they'll be compelled to add many new characters but i'd rather they spent more time on characterisation. I wouldn't be surprised if within 10 - 20 years cgi would come in so cheap they could have a live action tv series...

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594810)
Posted by Autobot Snake Eyes on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:44am CST

Fine. Keep jazz dead. I cant wait for the funeral scene.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594818)
Posted by Unicron Singularity on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:53am CST

Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594823)
Posted by Sunstar on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:56am CST

YES! HAHHAHAAH! I am glad they are keeping death as a permanant situation.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594826)
Posted by Ninja Sixshot on January 5th, 2008 @ 11:58am CST

Liege Evilmus wrote:I hope this is actualy true.

I like Jazz as much as the next guy, but let him stay dead, it gives the series more of an impact that way.

i agree. so let this hopefully shut up the kiddies who think jazz is alive.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594839)
Posted by Autobot032 on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:08pm CST

Corrupted Rodimus wrote:
Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

Crothers would own him? Um...yeah, if he were still alive. You do know that he passed away quite some time ago, correct? O_o

And I, for one, am glad that Jazz will stay dead. I mean, I realize it's science *fiction* but let's not go too far into fiction here, let's keep it realistic. We humans don't usually say "Pwn'd. Haxx0rz. RESPAWN" so why do these robots get the chance to? Seriously, as ridiculous as the concept is (and you have to accept that TFs are ridiculous, that's part of what makes 'em fun) there is such as thing as being too much so.

Ah well.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594841)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:10pm CST

Well you know his constant toy releases may be what's putting that idea in their heads!

Again, I'm glad, but I'm also willing to bet that (if) there is a TF3 he'll be in that.

Part 3 of any series always tries to rehash as much of the first as possible (:|

so that has me thinking it's probable.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594847)
Posted by rhinox555 on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:13pm CST

Autobot032 wrote:
Corrupted Rodimus wrote:
Skowl wrote:Michael Bay, director of the Transformers Movie, has posted on his message board to give fans an update and to debunk the previously reported rumours that Jazz may return in Transformers 2.

Here's what Michael Bay had to say:

No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.

Bay

read his original post by clicking here.

How can there exist way more cooler bots than Jazz? He's the definition of coolness himself. (But still, would be awesomeness with sauce if he was voiced by Scatman Crothers, though. But McCrary or whatever the dude who voiced him, was alright enough. *mumbling* Crothers would own McCrary)

Crothers would own him? Um...yeah, if he were still alive. You do know that he passed away quite some time ago, correct? O_o

And I, for one, am glad that Jazz will stay dead. I mean, I realize it's science *fiction* but let's not go too far into fiction here, let's keep it realistic. We humans don't usually say "Pwn'd. Haxx0rz. RESPAWN" so why do these robots get the chance to? Seriously, as ridiculous as the concept is (and you have to accept that TFs are ridiculous, that's part of what makes 'em fun) there is such as thing as being too much so.

Ah well.

You have never played an FPS,have you? ;-)

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594855)
Posted by Windracer on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:16pm CST

THANK YOU!

I talked to people who weren't even Transformers fans and they said that bringing him back would have been incredibly foolish.

It sucks for Jazz fans, but come on... They very clearly said that they could not save him in the film...

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594865)
Posted by Jaw Crusher on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:21pm CST

I honestly hope that this is true and not one of those BS tactics Bay said he was going to pull out of the hat for TF2. It'd be nice to see a continuity where TF deaths are permanent and ANYONE in the chain of command is expendable.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594871)
Posted by Sideshow Sideswipe on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:26pm CST

Bay is a huge douche who doesn't get the transformers universe at all. He wants to make another movie with lots of explosions and big robots. The robots are not transformers, they are walking piles of scrap.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594872)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:28pm CST

The only guy that should ever come back is Megatron. Even then only once, so they eventually have to either replace Megatron with a new character Galvatron or Starscream. OR...they could kill Prime instead and leave him dead.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594874)
Posted by Menbailee on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:38pm CST

Jazz's death felt too inconsequential in the movies, but I'm glad dead does mean dead. I hope that applies to Megatron, too!

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594885)
Posted by Agent 007 on January 5th, 2008 @ 12:53pm CST

Menbailee wrote:Jazz's death felt too inconsequential in the movies, but I'm glad dead does mean dead. I hope that applies to Megatron, too!

Same here. You can't have ur cake and eat it too people. If Jazz died and stayed dead so should Megatron.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594901)
Posted by Cascadia on January 5th, 2008 @ 1:10pm CST

Ahem to that...you took the words out of my mouth. If he wants to keep Jazz dead, Megatron has to remain dead at the bottom of the ocean. In terms of where Jazz was placed, it was never pointed out in the movie.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594912)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on January 5th, 2008 @ 1:18pm CST

I dont believe it. Im not going to believe anything until the movie is near release.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594918)
Posted by emeraldbeacon on January 5th, 2008 @ 1:28pm CST

Jazz COULD still 'return' in the form of a flashback to Cybertron, or could feasibly be brought back if the Allspark were to somehow be rejuvinated - it could bring him back to life, similar to 'jumpstarting' a dead car battery.

None of this would contradict Bay's statement that Jazz is dead. The verb 'IS' is an immediate one - it says nothing about his prior (i.e. flashback) or future (i.e. resurrection) status.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594935)
Posted by Autobot032 on January 5th, 2008 @ 1:42pm CST

Megatron_Wolf wrote:I dont believe it. Im not going to believe anything until the movie is near release.

If you're talking about going on Bay's word, eh, okay. (He's gone back on it a time or two before.)

If you're talking about the fake leaks, then you're wrong. This isn't a leak, this is coming directly from the man himself. So if he's no going back on his word as he has in the past, then we can rest assured that Jazz is dead. I for one am sure of it until I hear otherwise. Now if Darius McCrary actually has proof that he auditioned, recorded or was approached for the role, then I might be inclined to believe Jazz could return.

All McCrary said was that he was approached, but those are his words (if they're even his, I think it was ENI that reported it...)

For right now, all we know...Jazz is dead and until we see something concrete proving otherwise, there's no reason to believe he'll be back.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594959)
Posted by Blurrz on January 5th, 2008 @ 2:16pm CST

Woohoo.. Jazz is Dead! Seriously, I was tired of people believing he was going to come back.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594964)
Posted by woosh on January 5th, 2008 @ 2:33pm CST

What's the deal?
Jazz had whole 3 lines in the movie.
And i won't miss him (even tho i like his design).
I prefer to have shockwave instead of a "reborn" jazz.

And one more thing:
why didn't they cut the decepticons into parts and just me;t them to make forks out of the metal?
IT's obvious: THe decepticons will be ressurected by SOMETHING and will swim out of the water.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594980)
Posted by MYoung23 on January 5th, 2008 @ 2:46pm CST

If Bay was going to continue the dated black stereotypes the movie Jazz had i.e B-Boy stance and decade old slang then he needs to stay dead.

Of course this is the same guy who greenlit the Frenzy and Starscream designs.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594993)
Posted by Zeds on January 5th, 2008 @ 2:55pm CST

He could be just laying out one of the many falsehoods that he himself said he would to ensure that everything in the sequel is a surprise. I just hope that there is a gestalt combiner or two and some dinos in the sequel.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (594999)
Posted by Skowl on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:01pm CST

jazzrules wrote:Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

EVERYONE READ THIS BECAUSE THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M SAYING IT:

He said he was going to LEAK false information. Which means when we receive leaked info from an unknown source - it could be legit or it could be fake, we won't know until it's confirmed (or not).

If Bay or anyone in charge SAYS something, it's not a LEAK - it's official information coming from an official source. Bay never said he would spread false information in official announcements; he would only leak things. You should only be skeptical of information from an unknown or unofficial source.

In short, if it comes straight from Bay or anyone in charge - it's LEGIT. If something just "pops up" online, be a little more skeptical.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595009)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:12pm CST

Skowl wrote:
jazzrules wrote:Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

EVERYONE READ THIS BECAUSE THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M SAYING IT:

He said he was going to LEAK false information. Which means when we receive leaked info from an unknown source - it could be legit or it could be fake, we won't know until it's confirmed (or not).

If Bay or anyone in charge SAYS something, it's not a LEAK - it's official information coming from an official source. Bay never said he would spread false information in official announcements; he would only leak things. You should only be skeptical of information from an unknown or unofficial source.

In short, if it comes straight from Bay or anyone in charge - it's LEGIT. If something just "pops up" online, be a little more skeptical.

bang-snap

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595019)
Posted by Dropkick14 on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:22pm CST

WHY, they had to kill the black autobot,who knows maybe Bay will bring a mexican bot, and a chinese bot and kill them to. :evil:

Well as long as the new robots are kick ass cool B-)

then I am happy with it. :grin:

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595032)
Posted by driverlock on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:30pm CST

(destoreys some thing)

f@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-x

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595038)
Posted by LastBloom on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:33pm CST

Just remember guys Bay did say he was going to leak false information about the film.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595042)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:37pm CST

LastBloom wrote:Just remember guys Bay did say he was going to leak false information about the film.

didn't you read three posts up???

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595047)
Posted by Tekka on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:40pm CST

Not like Jazz was actually important anyway.

Movie Jazz in 5 seconds: "'sup bitches!" "You wanna piece of me?!" "Argh! I is dead." The end.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595055)
Posted by DetectiveFork on January 5th, 2008 @ 3:46pm CST

Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:Bay is a huge douche who doesn't get the transformers universe at all. He wants to make another movie with lots of explosions and big robots. The robots are not transformers, they are walking piles of scrap.

Well, said. Thank you.

Mortality my ass. Hollywood just doesn't know how to make action movies have emotional impact without killing off a character. Jazz was a guy we knew and loved from the past and should have been a bigger feature in the films, but instead he got very little development just like most of the other Transformers in the film and died just for the supposed dramatic weight. Whatever, Bay.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595119)
Posted by Burn on January 5th, 2008 @ 4:35pm CST

Skowl wrote:
jazzrules wrote:Even though this has come from Bay himself, how can we believe anything he says because he said they were going be putting out a lot of false info to keep us guessing.

EVERYONE READ THIS BECAUSE THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'M SAYING IT:

He said he was going to LEAK false information. Which means when we receive leaked info from an unknown source - it could be legit or it could be fake, we won't know until it's confirmed (or not).

If Bay or anyone in charge SAYS something, it's not a LEAK - it's official information coming from an official source. Bay never said he would spread false information in official announcements; he would only leak things. You should only be skeptical of information from an unknown or unofficial source.

In short, if it comes straight from Bay or anyone in charge - it's LEGIT. If something just "pops up" online, be a little more skeptical.

To me, if I were going to throw people off and feed them disinformation, it'd make more sense to come from an official source, not some unofficial unknown lacking credibility source ...

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595165)
Posted by Overloaded on January 5th, 2008 @ 5:18pm CST

I always taught Sector Seven were going to rebuild Jazz , Megatron and Blackout

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595196)
Posted by Predacon Rampage on January 5th, 2008 @ 5:39pm CST

Well now that it is confirmed(Might be a trick), they just need to keep Megatron dead. If they bring back Megatron they should also bring back Jazz.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595203)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 5:43pm CST

Predacon Rampage wrote:Well now that it is confirmed(Might be a trick), they just need to keep Megatron dead. If they bring back Megatron they should also bring back Jazz.

It's not a trick.
And Megatron is more important than Jazz.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595206)
Posted by Predacon Rampage on January 5th, 2008 @ 5:43pm CST

Dropkick14 wrote::shock: WHY, they had to kill the black autobot,who knows maybe Bay will bring a mexican bot, and a chinese bot and kill them to. Well as long as the new robots are kick ass cool then I am happy with it.

I always thought Cosmos sounded like he had a Spanish accent.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595230)
Posted by Talous on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:01pm CST

Neh, oh well. RIP Jazz

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595234)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:03pm CST

Talous wrote:Neh, oh well. RIP Jazz

exactly. Nothing else to say.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595237)
Posted by Autobot Jazz on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:06pm CST

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sad:

Maybe this is just false info like Bay said he'd give us, here's wishful thinking.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595245)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:09pm CST

Autobot Jazz wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe this is just false info like Bay said he'd give us, here's wishful thinking.

IT IS NOT FALSE INFO.
EVERYONE WITH JAZZ IN THEIR USERNAME NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595253)
Posted by Tekka on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:14pm CST

Now now, there's nothing wrong with them hoping against hope. I want Skywarp in the movie and in Animated, and I'm not going to stop wishing for it just because it's not gonna happen.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595279)
Posted by Omega Charge on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:30pm CST

Maybe there is a slight chance Michael Bay will change his mind, after all, the sequel is at least a year away, but I think he's moving on to bigger and better things. Maybe Jazz will become part of that at the last moment, but I doubt it. But what I am saying is that what MB has just said is currently what he thinks.

Re: Michael Bay: "Jazz is Dead" (595291)
Posted by DetectiveFork on January 5th, 2008 @ 6:36pm CST

Predacon Rampage wrote:
Dropkick14 wrote::shock: WHY, they had to kill the black autobot,who knows maybe Bay will bring a mexican bot, and a chinese bot and kill them to. Well as long as the new robots are kick ass cool then I am happy with it.

I always thought Cosmos sounded like he had a Spanish accent.

Cosmos' accent was based off of Peter Lorre's and Lorre was Hungarian.

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