Michael Bay: TF2 Characters and Script Template Done

A full template, great, it gets them to work letting the writers just flesh it out later. Absolutely no problem with that!

I respect him for keeping things on track.

However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

However I do have to say I look forward to what's in store for us, it seems like he's going for a progressive story with this franchise and not just repeating more of the same ol' like most movies do.

oh shit.....

Speaking as a professional writer - this could be bad. It makes me uncomfortable to regulate three veteran script writers to "ghost writer" status. My strongest fear is that the pacing of the storytelling could be off and may not lend itself to developing stronger characters or a compelling plot.

But speaking as a Transformers fan - I want things blown up. Michael Bay, I have faith you can deliver.

caricter developmet, fascinating, cinsiderng all bay does is blow sh*t up

Wait has he finished writing the entire script or just the outline and concept designs? I pray to all that is holly that he didnt write the script himself. If he wrote it himself not only will he never stop bragging but it will most likely suck. A lot.Sure the explosions will be awesome as will the battle scenes but the dialog and story (if any) will be horrid.

EDIT: I just thought of this.

Man I'd hate to have to read a Bay written script.

It'd be like reading a 2nd graders report on the New Years Eve fireworks.

Not to mention that he has probably changed all the "lame names" like Ratchet and Bumblebee to "cool names" like Hacksaw and Destroyer.

The poor writers will probably have to spend more time making his script usable than they would have spent writing their own from scratch.

Well done Michael! I am sure that it will be as much of a success or more successful than the 2007 movie!

ah...fuck.

Like him or not, folks, you have to give him credit for sticking to this project and showing commitment to the franchise.

Ultra Magnus wrote:I can't deal with that now!

My feelings on this script and I'm sure Magnus would feel the same.

Just when you thought that prospects for a second Transformers flick couldn't be any worse...

Like him or not, folks, you have to give him credit for sticking to this project and showing commitment to the franchise.

Um, no you don't. He'd only deserve credit if he handed the project off to somebody with a clue about how to make a movie and go off and make a car commercial.

Hmm, if Bay finished writing it. And he's added character development. Why do I see lines like this coming up.

Sam: So, Sunstreaker what do you do?

Sunstreaker: I enjoy blowing up cars and buses with massive firey explosions that can be filmed by 37 different helicopters.

Sam: Well, thats great, hey Bumblebee what are you doing?

Bumblebee: Not now Sam, me and Ironhide are playing Massive Car Explosion 5000 for the X-box 360, it has 8000 more renderings of explosions than the PS3!

Mountaindewbot: EXPLODE YOUR THIRST EXPLOOOOOODE!

Liege Evilmus wrote:However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

I want to apologize to everyone for this - I really didn't know how to phrase the title. It needed to be short but clear, and after 10 minutes I still didn't know how to put it.

If anyone else has a better, more appropriate title - please let me know, it's been one of those days and I can't think properly...

Well, I just hope he will do a good job, and hopefully better than on the first movie, or at least good as the first. I liked the movie, but I doubt there will be ever any TFs movie or cartoon I'll like better than the good ol' G1 (especially season 1, 2 and the 1986 movie). But I'm really anxious and looking forward to it, of course! Make us proud Michael Bay! And put there Soundwave, Shockwave, Prowl and Astrotrain. If you want a new challenge, how about doing a triple changer?

Well if you notice its an outline for the real writers. So the bad parts of this news aren't as bad as some may want to think.

Or so I hope.

Skowl wrote:

Liege Evilmus wrote:However the headline initialy did make my heart sink a bit.

I want to apologize to everyone for this - I really didn't know how to phrase the title. It needed to be short but clear, and after 10 minutes I still didn't know how to put it.

If anyone else has a better, more appropriate title - please let me know, it's been one of those days and I can't think properly...

Respectfuly...

- Bay finishes TF2 template script

- TF2 progressing w/ Bay outline script

- TF2 outlined, don't panic yet

- Liege Evilmus Kicks Ass

I think any of these would work

Let the fleshing out begin The strike is officially over.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hollywood_la ... 38wqxxFb8C

Call me a hater, but I must give credit where credit is due.

I too have completed outlines for countless Hollywood blockbusters- it took some serious drinking, at truck stops, during all night benders that went late late into the morning- and let me tell you- writing on napkins with activity crayons (the cheap kind) is tough stuff.

But it's worth it. Man oh man, does it make some good movies.

It makes cool characters like Dispensor and the up and coming Nintenja, "the street talking wise cracking transformer ninja/video game system." He's a great character, with memorable lines like, "Nintenja gonna put his game on!"

I also draw lots of figure eights and dot the insides to make them into breasts. This reminds me to put more breasts in the movie.

And when I think of breasts- I think of explosions.

I think of robots who only live to explode.

The Explodicons.

And their evil enemies, the Bra-tobots.

The Explodicons fight the Bra-tobots by exploding. Huge explosions that wipe out cities, and rip the Bra-tobots wide open with firm masculine hands, exposing the millions of glistening, beautiful, jiggly, naked-

But working like this let's me also focus on making what was successful the first time around, even better.

SoooTrypticon wrote:Call me a hater, but I must give credit where credit is due.

I too have completed outlines for countless Hollywood blockbusters- it took some serious drinking, at truck stops, during all night benders that went late late into the morning- and let me tell you- writing on napkins with activity crayons (the cheap kind) is tough stuff.

But it's worth it. Man oh man, does it make some good movies.

It makes cool characters like Dispensor and the up and coming Nintenja, "the street talking wise cracking transformer ninja/video game system." He's a great character, with memorable lines like, "Nintenja gonna put his game on!"

I also draw lots of figure eights and dot the insides to make them into breasts. This reminds me to put more breasts in the movie.

And when I think of breasts- I think of explosions.

I think of robots who only live to explode.

The Explodicons.

And their evil enemies, the Bra-tobots.

The Explodicons fight the Bra-tobots by exploding. Huge explosions that wipe out cities, and rip the Bra-tobots wide open with firm masculine hands, exposing the millions of glistening, beautiful, jiggly, naked-

But working like this let's me also focus on making what was successful the first time around, even better.

I do this constantly for nil with nothing more than hope edging me on, and still have to wake up for a crappy 9-5 which always runs over every friggin day. Frig, case in point, its 11:41pm, and I'm still working even at HOME!

Considering a night of drinking in a dive as work is a blessing envy you for enjoying!

Cause for some of us, the 2 seconds with out the phone ringing in the morning while sneaking a sip of coffee on the can is our only chance at free time in the day to mull over back of the mind thoughts that we need to get to that not only beat ideas like Dispensors ass, but drag us deeper cause we haven't been gifted with union jobs that let us just drink and play Guitar Hero waiting for an idea while a bong gets passed around.

Yet somehow we still trudge on and do what we can while producing our ideas, while still paying rent with a job based so far away!

Poor professional writers having to drink all night hoping to think of something new, while rubes like so many of us do it naturaly even when we don't want to, and are lucky enough to be underpayed and struggling to pay the rent.

Here's hoping their bars are generious on buy backs

I smell just a little bit of that misinformation that he promised earlier on in the project.

Wrote the whole thing himself? He knows that'd roil a few people.

If Michael Bay had done Star Wars... the explosion of Death Star wouldn't have been computer-generated

[quote="Liege Evilmus"Poor professional writers having to drink all night hoping to think of something new, while rubes like so many of us do it naturaly even when we don't want to, and are lucky enough to be underpayed and struggling to pay the rent.[/quote][/quote]

Wait. Lucky?

Well... I have but one request, Megatron back more powerful thn ever and using his cannon alot more

I didn't have high hopes for this movie anyway.

I say "Well done Mr Bay". Instead of whining about the writers strike he didn't let it put too much of a spanner in the works and created a plot outline. This should give the writers a running start as all they have to do is think along those lines and fill in the bulk.

SoooTrypticon wrote:I think of robots who only live to explode.

The Explodicons.

I would buy the Explodicon toys... I'd just leave them MIB for safety reasons.

The Merchandise-obots and the Cash-in-icons

I hope we will see Megatron and the other Decepticons return. I definately don't want those dead already.

Okay we get it now, haters. You don't like Michael Bay.

Will TFM2 go upward like Spiderman sequal? Or will it go downward like the Matrix sequal?

I don't know. But you gotta respect the man for going forward despite not knowing a darn thing about Transformers when he came in.

Also: Shootouts! Car chases! Usage of the armed forces! Carbomyans! I've yet to see a person lose with these combined.

Cool new robots and lots of them, thats all that matters for TF2 people.

The script will probably suck regardless of who rights it cuz you can't please everyone anyway.

Rejoice!!! TF2 will be out on schedule!!!!!

Great, another half assed Transformers movie, with big explosions and special effects and very little in the way of a plot, and more bad acting from Shia LaDouche and Megan "Airhead" Fox.

Big Convoy wrote:Great, another half assed Transformers movie, with big explosions and special effects and very little in the way of a plot, and more bad acting from Shia LaDouche and Megan "Airhead" Fox.

Not liking Megan I can understand, but Shia? That dude is awesome. Ever seen Holes? Great movie. Disturbia, another awesome flick. Shia rocks man.

All I can say is that I had low expectations before the 07 Movie, but now the bar has been raised, a lot. Hope all the best and success to Mr Bay

Man, I just don't get why there is so much hate for Bay.

Good thing the strike is over.

It will be too scary to let Bay write the TF script.

A script by Michael Bay.. I wonder how that might sound...

OPTIMUS PRIME rolls majestically into view, followed loyally by his AUTOBOT companions. SAM and MIKAELA stand in awe, seeing their old friends pull up. A brilliant, heartwarming feeling as Sam is reuinited with BUMBLEBEE, who transforms and raises the boy up in his arm. The others transform also and tower over the kids like gentle giants BEFORE EXPLODING AND KILLING EVERYONE. BUILDINGS FALL. CARS CRASH. ALIENS PLUMMET FROM THE SKY AND DESTROY EVERYTHING. ITS MAYHEM! CHAOS! CARNAGE! PARKED CARS ERUPT INTO FLAMES! THE TRANSFORMERS HAVE UNLEASHED AN ORGY OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH UPON THE CITY IN A VICIOUS, FIERY FRENZY! THERE ARE NO SURVIVORS! ONLY DESTRUCTION, DEBRIS AND EVEN MORE EXPLOSIONS!

Mmm... maybe not

Before Bay blows up everything, let's at least, for one single time, see Prime transform in full view.

I don't think that is possible because a recent interview with one of the computer animators revealed that the movie bots don't have a realistic transformation. He mentioned that parts fly around during the transformation. This is the main reason why we don't see transformations in full view in the first movie.

I think it is interesting that Hasbro and Takara are already working on the Transformer designs this early for the next movie. In the first movie, the movie designers gave the final bot designs to Hasbro and Takara; and those two companies said 'crap- this is going to be tough to engineer the transformations because we figure out the transformations first, then the bot designs; not the other way around.'

So, I wonder if Hasbro & Takara are having more influence on the bot designs for the second movie.

They should. So that we'll have more accurate toys. Not parts flying around behind the screen.

Auto Bot wrote:Before Bay blows up everything, let's at least, for one single time, see Prime transform in full view.

He somewhat did, on the highway after Bonecrusher's tf. Problem is, all that detailing from the close-up transformations is obscured in such a faraway shot. This particular transformation resembled a truck model totally crumbling and folding into a jagged humanoid shape on all fours. So yeah, the full-screen Prime tfs wouldn't have been as pretty. The other autobot tfs looked pretty good, however.

I'll sum it up for you.

BOOMatron: IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZER!

BOOMcee: Why, sure, I'll let you check under my hood, Optimus.
BOOMtimus BOOM: lulz i iz perv!

BOOMscream: LOL WUT?

BOOMblebee: im in ur house, lubricatin on yo momma!

BOOMwave: YO!! I IZ RAPPA! FO SHO!

BOOMBOOM McBOOM: lol i pwn u all wit mah *insert brad here* brand blasta!11!11!!!!1!one!!1

Now repeat for two hours.

That scene may have shown more than just Prime's butt, but it's still too close. And too dizzying. Like bread crumbs falling and reforming.

I'd like to see something like, "Autobots, transform and roll!", and Prime transforms clearly from a standing still position. Where you can clearly see which part goes where.

During the encounter with S7, when more S7 vehicles are coming, all Autobots transforms, except Prime. That scene is really disappointing. He commands everybody to transform. And yet chooses to just hop around himself.