Robert Kirkman on Involvement in Transformers Writers Room

Windsweeper wrote:He is to writers what Michael Bay is to directors.

Windsweeper wrote:I will never be happy with the inclusion of Akiva Goldsman.

He is to writers what Michael Bay is to directors.

Sabrblade wrote:Watch you guys finally get a movie set entirely on Cybertron with no humans, but it's the Bumblebee movie.

Though, would it just be retelling the events of the Movie Prequel, or would they write a new "How Bee lost his voice" backstory?

tffan01 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Watch you guys finally get a movie set entirely on Cybertron with no humans, but it's the Bumblebee movie.

Though, would it just be retelling the events of the Movie Prequel, or would they write a new "How Bee lost his voice" backstory?

Sad that a Cybertron prequel movie would probably mean writing the events of the prequel comics from out of existence.

Tough they would probably use some elements from the comics like Megatron being the one who took Bumblebee's voice.

Nico wrote:Am I the only one thinking that a Transformers 'cinematic universe' seems like it might be hard to pull off with the continuity of the pre-existing movies? Especially given they've killed of all major and most famous Decepticons which could act as leaders: Starscream, Shockwave and Soundwave and even Megatron (mind you, he's back to life for a second time). I mean, who is left at this point? They've already used The Fallen and I can't imagine Unicron getting used unless they are certain its the big finale.

So that leave us with mostly obscure comic villains like Straxus and Japanese-continuity villains like Overlord, Deathsaurus, Zarak (who wouldn't be Scorpinok in this continuity) or...maybe Dark Nova or Violen Jiger but seriously nobody remember these guys exist and rightly so.

I swear, if we get Magmatron in movie form or something equally bizarre and unlikely I'll eat my own shorts.

• The writers' room (which we reported on multiple times) has plotted out a lot of mythos for the Transformers universe and beyond, and artists were brought in too. Out of the group work, The Last Knight and the 2018 Bumblebee spin-off were chosen. The preparatory material has been printed, but only distributed to 'insiders'.
  
• Things work in five-year business plans, as confirmed by Hasbro's Brian Goldner.
  
• Paramount are looking for a different director than Bay for the next movie - and that means the 2018 animated Bumblebee on. This does not mean that Bay is definitely out. Let's make that clear!
  
• The elements started in Transformers Age of Extinction and now The Last Knight will spill over into possible GI Joe and MASK stories and plans, so we'll have to wait and see what those elements actually are!

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

Burn wrote:

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

So basically the Knight Rider resurrection from a couple of years ago.

Paramount are looking for a different director than Bay for the next movie

Munkky wrote:While I do plan to watch The Last Knight, TF6, and probably the Bumblebee movie as well,

Sabrblade wrote:

Munkky wrote:While I do plan to watch The Last Knight, TF6, and probably the Bumblebee movie as well,

TF6 is the Bumblebee movie.

Munkky wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Munkky wrote:While I do plan to watch The Last Knight, TF6, and probably the Bumblebee movie as well,

TF6 is the Bumblebee movie.

Is it? I was going by the Wikipedia page, which says TF6 will be the 2019 movie made after the Bumblebee spin-off.

Burn wrote:

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

So basically the Knight Rider resurrection from a couple of years ago.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Burn wrote:

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

So basically the Knight Rider resurrection from a couple of years ago.

I remember that. I actually thought it was semi-decent actually, but I dabble

JazZeke wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Burn wrote:

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

So basically the Knight Rider resurrection from a couple of years ago.

I remember that. I actually thought it was semi-decent actually, but I dabble

It was awful. It's pseudo-science was so terrible, so stupid that it would make Doctor Who roll his eyes. One time they identified a killer by scanning the residual sound waves in a room. I couldn't stand to watch it.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

JazZeke wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Burn wrote:

Kurona wrote:From what I know of MASK, the Transformers movie format would be perfect for it since the main characters are actually human and hence where the focus should be (character-wise), while the transforming CGI stuff is basically just their cool mechs for the action scenes. Could be decent.

So basically the Knight Rider resurrection from a couple of years ago.

I remember that. I actually thought it was semi-decent actually, but I dabble

It was awful. It's pseudo-science was so terrible, so stupid that it would make Doctor Who roll his eyes. One time they identified a killer by scanning the residual sound waves in a room. I couldn't stand to watch it.

Like I said, I thought it was semi-decent. I was also 13 at the time and had no background information on it at the time. It was something fun to watch before going to bed

TulioDude wrote:I imagine the Bumblebee spin-off being like a movie interpretation of the RID cartoon(2015),with Bumblebee forming his own team to fight a menace that lingers on Earth.

Sabrblade wrote:

TulioDude wrote:I imagine the Bumblebee spin-off being like a movie interpretation of the RID cartoon(2015),with Bumblebee forming his own team to fight a menace that lingers on Earth.

Unless it's a prequel set on Cybertron showing us how he lost his voice (*RIP Movie Prequel comics* )

TulioDude wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TulioDude wrote:I imagine the Bumblebee spin-off being like a movie interpretation of the RID cartoon(2015),with Bumblebee forming his own team to fight a menace that lingers on Earth.

Unless it's a prequel set on Cybertron showing us how he lost his voice (*RIP Movie Prequel comics* )

In my mind,the most likely thing would be few flashback scenes,maybe even to show something the carries to the present,and Bumblebee in the present,with him remembering or telling these events.

The talk off a bigger universe makes me feel like they wouldn't so eager to forget the other stories,at least not from here onward anyway.

Also, unless I'm misremembering, isn't the Bumblebee movie going to be animated?

Sabrblade wrote:I don't think the filmmakers really hold much regard at all for any of the movie-based comics, since none of those comics had any bearing on the films themselves, and have all been virtually ignored by the films anyway. None of the films have ever given any acknowledgement of the comics' stories within the films' own onscreen narratives. If they wanted to, the filmmakers could easily create their own brand new backstory for how Bumblebee lost his voice that completely ignores the Movie Prequel comics, so long as it wouldn't conflict with what we've seen in the first four films.

Since 2015, Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has become a big name in the world of cinematic universe franchises. In collaboration with Paramount Pictures, he not only created a braintrust that would help formulate the future of the Transformers series, but also went on to do the same thing with Hasbro and brands like G.I. Joe and ROM: Space Knight. We haven't seen an actual product from this process just yet, as none of the developing projects have made it to release -- but the methodology is continuing to spread, as the same approach that's going into the construction of the recently-announced Extreme Cinematic Universe.

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[Liefeld:] So I kind of was thinking, 'I'm going to go to this meeting and maybe I'll get a good look at some Dark Tower stuff,' and what ended up happening is he goes, 'I want to hand you this giant black leather-bound equivalent of a phone book,' and it said, "The Transformers Bible." This thing is awesome and Akiva goes, 'I just want you to know, there's only eight of these in existence. Michael Bay has one, I have one, the head of Paramount has one, and the five other people involved have them.' So I flipped through it, and it's every treatment, outlines, screenplay, for the lineup of Transformer films that they have planned, that he was a showrunner for...

So he said to me, he said, 'It's pretty cool, right? I'm like, 'Yeah!' He's like, 'I ran this room; this is what we came up with. This is what I did on behalf of Paramount.' He goes, 'In a couple months, I'm going to go run the Hasbro room, and we're going to do the same thing for ROM, Micronauts, G.I. Joe. We're going to put together this Hasbro Cinematic Universe, and then he said, I would like to do yours next. And I said, 'Uhhhhhh, Okay, WOW!'

Burn wrote:This should have been titled "Akiva Goldsman acknowledges the awesomeness that is Rob Liefeld"

Burn wrote:Actually an 80's kid. Thank you for your incredibly pointless post.

SlyTF1 wrote:An app went live yesterday, showing new pictures of TLK, and even giving the history of the Transformers from the beginning of time. There's some crazy stuff in here that potentially hints at the direction the movies are going to go in after TLK.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transfo ... 19083?mt=8

I read some of it, but not all. Apparently there are some inconsistencies between the history that's presented in the app, and what's actually happened in the movies.

Sabrblade wrote:Judging from just those screenshots, the Lore looks like it might be mostly but not precisely Aligned-based.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Judging from just those screenshots, the Lore looks like it might be mostly but not precisely Aligned-based.

Do you mind posting screenshots for a news article?

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Judging from just those screenshots, the Lore looks like it might be mostly but not precisely Aligned-based.

Do you mind posting screenshots for a news article?

I'm just looking at the sample pics on the iTunes page Sly linked to.

Do you mean that you can't see the page when you click it?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Judging from just those screenshots, the Lore looks like it might be mostly but not precisely Aligned-based.

Do you mind posting screenshots for a news article?

I'm just looking at the sample pics on the iTunes page Sly linked to.

Do you mean that you can't see the page when you click it?

I can, but I thought there was more and what you were seeing was actually in the app

Paramount has more than a dozen various Transformers movies outlined, courtesy of a writer's room that was assembled in 2015. The announcement was made by Michael Bay during an event for Transformers: The Last Knight, which was held recently at London's Cineworld IMAX on Leicester Square. The director, who was reportedly looking pretty casual and wearing a Boba Fett shirt, showed off a bunch of footage from the upcoming Transformers movie and decided to break the news that they can expect a whole lot more from the franchise in the future.

JazZeke wrote: