New Deal between Huahua Media and Paramount Pictures for Transformers: The Last Knight
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Huahua Media has become an exclusive partner in China with Paramount Pictures for the roll-out of Transformers:The Last Knight (变形金刚5:最后的骑士), the next installment in the billion-dollar blockbuster franchise based on the Hasbro toy line.
Details of the deal are still unclear but a statement released by the two-year-old Chinese company trumpeted the deal as particularly groundbreaking for an agreement between a Chinese and a US company in the film industry.
Huahua CEO Wang Kefei joined Paramount’s Chairman and Chief Executive Brad Grey, Megan Colligan, worldwide president of marketing and distribution, and Nic Crawley, President of International Marketing & Distribution to ink the deal in Shanghai on Thursday.
The agreement most likely means that the company will be replacing 1905 Internet Technology as Paramount’s Chinese production partner for the franchise.
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Posted by Va'al on December 5th, 2016 @ 12:16pm CST
The information relates to the Bumblebee spinoff, the animated Cybertron movie, the plans for a sixth and seventh film in the series, Grimlock's return, the Transformers Response Force, characters for the cast members, Sqweeks,
We've selected a couple of juicier bits from the list of 45, but you can still find the full piece here. Read on if you're so inclined!
- Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura says The Last Knight is going to explore the mythology of how Transformers “were created, where did it start, where did they go from being a sort of a slave-race to a sentient race–we’re delving into that aspect of the mythology, so the characters that are involved in there are Megatron before he’s Megatron, Optimus before he’s Optimus, the Librarian, the Quintessons, there’s a whole group of things that have to do with how, in a sense, the Transformers were birthed, and also with how they were divided. What brought up the division, and what were the jealousies involved.”
- The film will have two parallel stories that are leading to the same place, all surrounding one mythology. Di Bonaventura said, “They’re part of the same mythology, but the fact that these two pieces could interrelate, and have quite a span in time in which we’re trying to draw from–one is, in the Transformers’ mythology, billions of years ago, and one is hundreds of years ago, so in that sense, those two ideas came together. At first, we thought maybe they were two different movies, and then they came together.”
- Regarding how much The Last Knight sets up the Bumblebee spinoff and future sequels, Di Bonaventura says, “you’ve got to be careful with that stuff, because then you start thinking about the other movies and not about the one you’re making. I would say, we definitely spent some time going “How does this link up and where are these other things going to go?” So I think in their initial construction in the writer’s room, and the initial sort of thinking, we spent a lot of time on that, thinking about the interrelationship.” He went on to say, “some of the things will have a very direct relationship. You’ll see some things in here that are laying a pipe. You won’t necessarily know that it’s laying a pipe for another movie, but it’s there. So there’s probably, in a really meaningful way, two or three things in this movie that really have a meaningful aspect…and then there’s a bunch of little things. But we’re not making this movie to set up the other movies.”
- With Paramount and Hasbro hoping to make a number of future Transformers movies, Di Bonaventura revealed they have outlines for six and seven. However, they haven’t started writing the scripts because they didn’t want to rush them and needed to see how The Last Knight would change during filming.
- Santiago Cabrera plays a mercenary who’s out to get all the Transformers. He says, “I was a SEAL but I’ve retired and I’m on contract, I’ve been hired –The TRF (stands for the Transformers Response Force) has been formed to fight the Transformers, so my orders are I don’t care if they’re Autobots or Decepticons, we gotta stop this war. So I’m a team leader and I’ve come with my team to fight them and what I find and when I see Cade Yeager is harboring them he becomes the enemy basically.”
- Josh Duhamel says NEST is not part of the film. During an interview, he revealed that it’s a bit of a mystery who he is working for in the film. He explained, “Am I with the US military, the Army, or am I working with a group that’s trying to eradicate all Transformers? Not just Decepticons, but all of them. There’s a bit of a struggle between myself and Santiago Cabrera, and then we’re also working against [Mark] Wahlberg’s character in this. Because he’s definitely working with the Autobots. It’s just a lot of big fun movie shit that we get to do. And what brought me back personally is the fact that you get to do stuff that you don’t get to do anywhere else. Michael [Bay] does stuff bigger than anybody I’ve ever worked with, for sure.”
- Isabela Moner describes her character as a tomboy and says when we meet her she’s homeless and joins Mark Wahlberg and the team in defeating the Deceptions. She’s also the one that brings Sqweeks, who is a mini-Transformer Vespa, into the group as they’ve been together for a while. Apparently Sqkweeks is broken, so the only thing he can say is chihuahua. Moner’s character lost her family in the battle of Chicago.
- Hot Rod is in the film and he’s got a French accent, but he’s not from France. Bay said “he just likes the accent.”
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on December 5th, 2016 @ 12:37pm CST
“There was something that happened where an Autobot gets killed, and they go, ‘Nope. We will not participate.’ It’s by accident, but they go, ‘Nope, we won’t participate.’
THAT's scary. Please don't be Bumblebee, please don't be Bumblebee. . .
Posted by Sabrblade on December 5th, 2016 @ 12:41pm CST
Read what that says again. It says the DoD refused to cooperate if Bay were to have done that, so he couldn't do that.EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Umm. . .
“There was something that happened where an Autobot gets killed, and they go, ‘Nope. We will not participate.’ It’s by accident, but they go, ‘Nope, we won’t participate.’
THAT's scary. Please don't be Bumblebee, please don't be Bumblebee. . .
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 5th, 2016 @ 12:46pm CST
I'm actually excited for this film more than any other movie of 2017 (with only Logan being on my movie radar as such). Still bloody love that poster too.
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on December 5th, 2016 @ 12:58pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Read what that says again. It says the DoD refused to cooperate if Bay were to have done that, so he couldn't do that.EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Umm. . .
“There was something that happened where an Autobot gets killed, and they go, ‘Nope. We will not participate.’ It’s by accident, but they go, ‘Nope, we won’t participate.’
THAT's scary. Please don't be Bumblebee, please don't be Bumblebee. . .
Sure enough, it does! Thank goodness too, because I really don't want to see another Autobot die the way Ratchet did.
Posted by RAR on December 5th, 2016 @ 2:42pm CST
Posted by DeadRatchet on December 5th, 2016 @ 3:04pm CST
Posted by Ultimate Weapon1 on December 5th, 2016 @ 4:47pm CST
Posted by Deadput on December 5th, 2016 @ 5:34pm CST
DeadRatchet wrote:how baytard comes up with his ideas....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JKfHU6nEg
No one friggen cares about your opinions on Bay so why do you and others spew this garbage and pollute the internet with your god damn opinions.
I'd reckon you and your mongrel kind are more trash then Bay has ever acted.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 5:40pm CST
Posted by JazZeke on December 5th, 2016 @ 5:44pm CST
Deadput wrote:DeadRatchet wrote:how baytard comes up with his ideas....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JKfHU6nEg
No one friggen cares about your opinions on Bay so why do you and others spew this garbage and pollute the internet with your god damn opinions.
I'd reckon you and your mongrel kind are more trash then Bay has ever acted.
Calm your .
People have legitimate reasons to dislike Bay. No one's a "mongrel" for disliking objectively-bad things like sexism, gratuitous military worship, lack of plot, etc. etc....
In fact, I daresay it's even more immature to insult a person just because they don't like something you like.
Posted by Burn on December 5th, 2016 @ 5:50pm CST
JazZeke wrote:Deadput wrote:DeadRatchet wrote:how baytard comes up with his ideas....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JKfHU6nEg
No one friggen cares about your opinions on Bay so why do you and others spew this garbage and pollute the internet with your god damn opinions.
I'd reckon you and your mongrel kind are more trash then Bay has ever acted.
Calm your .
People have legitimate reasons to dislike Bay. No one's a "mongrel" for disliking objectively-bad things like sexism, gratuitous military worship, lack of plot, etc. etc....
In fact, I daresay it's even more immature to insult a person just because they don't like something you like.
JazZeke, replying to comments like this do not help the situation, you've been here long enough to know that. The situation has been dealt with.
For everyone ... in the future, do NOT respond to posts like Deadputs. Simply use the "Report this post" button. Replying to comments like that only make the situation worse.
Back to the wait ...
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 6:18pm CST
Edit: We also have additional images for you, courtesy of Paramount Pictures!
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on December 5th, 2016 @ 8:14pm CST
Posted by JazZeke on December 5th, 2016 @ 8:27pm CST
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Rumor has it the trailer should be released in about 15-20 minutes. Get ready!
*drinks profusely*
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 8:29pm CST
Posted by SlyTF1 on December 5th, 2016 @ 8:50pm CST
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on December 5th, 2016 @ 8:59pm CST
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:07pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:11pm CST
Posted by SlyTF1 on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:12pm CST
Posted by Highbeam on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:15pm CST
Posted by Bounti76 on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:16pm CST
Posted by ScottyP on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:17pm CST
Also - That did not suck.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:18pm CST
Posted by MenaceRX on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:20pm CST
Posted by crazyfist on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:23pm CST
Posted by JazZeke on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:23pm CST
Though, I did like that song they played in the background, anyone recognize it?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:23pm CST
And holy cow Prime...
Posted by Kurona on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:26pm CST
JazZeke wrote:And right there in the credits, the man who "wrote" Batman and Robin and Lost in Space. Truly there is no end in sight.
Though, I did like that song they played in the background, anyone recognize it?
I think it was from Imagine Dragons.
Posted by Bombilation on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:31pm CST
Posted by breacher on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:33pm CST
Posted by JazZeke on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:34pm CST
Kurona wrote:JazZeke wrote:And right there in the credits, the man who "wrote" Batman and Robin and Lost in Space. Truly there is no end in sight.
Though, I did like that song they played in the background, anyone recognize it?
I think it was from Imagine Dragons.
Well I like them a lot better than Linkin Park, so there is that.
Posted by Randomhero on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:35pm CST
JazZeke wrote:And right there in the credits, the man who "wrote" Batman and Robin and Lost in Space. Truly there is no end in sight.
Though, I did like that song they played in the background, anyone recognize it?
And the script was also written by the duo who did Iron Man. So what? Could be worse. Could be Ehren Kruger again.
Posted by It Is Him on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:38pm CST
Posted by Randomhero on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:41pm CST
Posted by Noideaforaname on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:49pm CST
Waitaminute... GOBOTRON?!
Posted by Bounti76 on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:50pm CST
breacher wrote:Well... that happened. And it looked awesome. Anyways, that dragon you guys claim to be seeing just looks like strafe to me. And what you guys were saying looked like unicron, looks alot like the torn up, mostly dead remains of cybertron from when it was destroyed in DOTM. Regardless, hope this toyline is an improvement over the last one. And I hope it has it's own line, not one piggy-backed onto generations/Titans return.
Watch it again....the dragon is the first (assumed) Cybertronian on screen in the trailer. It has 3 distinct heads, a much longer body than Strafe/Swoop, and actual arms, along with a longer and not-split tail, like Swoop/Strafe.
Posted by Ironhidensh on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:53pm CST
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
Posted by It Is Him on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:57pm CST
Ironhidensh wrote:People aren't going to spend real money to see this, are they?
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
What if you are actually a bug, and you are attracted to trash fires with transforming robots?
Posted by Spider5800 on December 5th, 2016 @ 9:58pm CST
The split in the middle matches how it was only halfway through the portal when it closed in that film.
Posted by william-james88 on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:01pm CST
Ironhidensh wrote:People aren't going to spend real money to see this, are they?
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
Take a look at all the boards, this film will make 1B$ again.
Posted by Randomhero on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:05pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:People aren't going to spend real money to see this, are they?
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
Take a look at all the boards, this film will make 1B$ again.
Nothing wrong with that. General audience loves them and in the end it helps the brand grow more and more.
People who whine and moan saying these movies do more harm than good, I just look over and see my giant CHUG collection with Metroplex and Fort Max towering over them and laugh.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:06pm CST
It Is Him wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:People aren't going to spend real money to see this, are they?
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
What if you are actually a bug, and you are attracted to trash fires with transforming robots?
guilty
Posted by PrymeStriker on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:09pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:10pm CST
It's like this cover was done for a Michael Bay movie. Interesting.
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:15pm CST
Still, I'm excited that their bringing Josh Duhamel back. He was one of the better things in the last trilogy.
Posted by JazZeke on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:16pm CST
Seibertron wrote:Here's the song ...
It's like this cover was done for a Michael Bay movie. Interesting.
Not bad, not bad a'tall.
Posted by Ironhidensh on December 5th, 2016 @ 10:19pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:People aren't going to spend real money to see this, are they?
I mean c'mon, how many times can you jump a shark only to land in a trash fire?
Take a look at all the boards, this film will make 1B$ again.
That saddens me more than anything else that could possibly said. It may be time to take a hiatus from the boards again.
No matter how many logical explication are given, I just can't wrap my head around how people can enjoy this crap. The same with twilight, or 50 shades, how this stuff makes money is beyond me.
The single worst part? The more money this crap kakes, the farther away we get from ever having a movie that shows off the deep characterization and storytelling potential that the Transformers mythos actually posses. Sometimes, success isn't worth the cost.