Scans for Empire Magazine Transformers: The Last Knight Article: Prequels, Sequels, and More

I swear I've heard that Simmons was based on Bay before.

Back during the OT days I think but I don't remember where I read it.

But I do know I heard this before that I'm certain of.

Reading the article. Comments below.

* Bay lost three inches of his hair filming a fire sequence for the film 13 Hours, not TLK. This was right before he met up with the writers over Skype on the first day of the Writer Room back in June 2015.

* So it was Bay who convinced Paramount to put together the Writers Room since, in his eyes, the Transformers film franchise was "getting stale" and "gonna die" at the rate it was going.

* The writer of Black Hawk Down and the writers of Iron Man 1 being the writers of TLK give me some sense of hope that this film might possibly be a step up from the preceding sequels.

* Like Bay back in the mid-2000s, the Writers Room team had to go through "Transformers School", in which the article says that they went through "14 billion years of history".

* Prior to the Writers Room, Ken Nolan hadn't even seen any of the TF movies yet. So right before he was due for the Writers Room, he binge-watched all four of them and "almost went to an insane asylum."

* I'm a bit hesitant on the notion of this film squishing three treatments together (King Arthur, WWII, and Quintessa), as AOE already felt like 2+ films squished together haphazardly.

* Santiago Cabrera is playing Merlin? O...kay?

* In that little bit on the left side of the third page, what do these people got against the Insecticons? Even the Tom Hanks movie Big established that robots turning into insects was cool.

* The Bumblebee film having a younger tone sounds promising.

* The writers of Ant-Man doing the animated Cybertron prequel is the best news of this article yet!

* Lorezo di Bonaventura immediately shot down any notion of an R-rated Transformers film. Good! Though, sadly, Bay likes the idea.

* Though I agree with Bay that orange is an unattractive lighting color, I wish he didn't feel that he had to cuss out his own people.

* The notion of John Turturro having based Simmons on Bay is mentioned here as something that was admitted back when the first film was made.

* Heh, Turturro previously wanted to cast Bay in a film that he (Turturro) was directing, and if Bay hadn't been in Cuba filming TLK at the time, he would have done it instead of having to turn it down. He would have played a famous hairdresser and would have shot a guy in the butt.

SlyTF1 wrote:I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

Robot on robot violence doesn't seem to require an R-rating as seen in the previous movies but lots of close ups of humans getting squished under foot and and blown to bits and yeeeeah! Megatron picking up a human by the head and popping it like a zit. brutal :O

Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

Kurona wrote:"Oh, ****, what are we gonna do now?!"

Despite the suit he's wearing, Spike is not a Transformer.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

Have you not been watching these movies?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:I pray Hasbro lets Bay make an R-rated Transformers movie. It'll never happen, but I want it more than anything in life.

Robot on robot violence doesn't seem to require an R-rating as seen in the previous movies but lots of close ups of humans getting squished under foot and and blown to bits and yeeeeah! Megatron picking up a human by the head and popping it like a zit. brutal :O

Have Transformers ever cussed? I mean with human swear words rather than more family friendly substitutions?

I want human violence and Tarantino style dialogue.

Also, Sonic is doing some Last Knight promotional stuff: https://www.sonicdrivein.com/-/colorchangingslushes

" Darn Sonic and them posting spoilers about Bee becoming evil with that purple slushie " /s

But really ugh grape.

Movies and Frozen Treats are two staples of summer, or at least someone at the Transformers Last Knight branding office thought so, as TLK-themed Slushes are now appearing at Sonic restaurants! Thanks to a submitted photo from EvasionModeBumblebee, we can see that three drinks are currently for sale, one inspired by Megatron, one by Optimus Prime, and the last by Bumblebee. It's unknown if the licence deal will reach to other Sonic products (E.G. toys for their kids meal), but if any update like that is issued, we'll post it here on Seibertron.com!

Deadput wrote:Is Sonic a US thing because I've never heard of them here in Canada?

Is it a convenience store or a restaurant?

I think it's a just a US thing? It's a restaurant set up like those old fifties drive ins, where there's no inside and people will bring food out to you. They have killer tater tots.

Kurona wrote:It's a popular video game series with quite a few good games. I'd recommend Generations and 3&K myself.

Slushin' around at the speed of sound.

Microraptor wrote:

Deadput wrote:Is Sonic a US thing because I've never heard of them here in Canada?

Is it a convenience store or a restaurant?

I think it's a just a US thing? It's a restaurant set up like those old fifties drive ins, where there's no inside and people will bring food out to you. They have killer tater tots.

Bingo! Ironically, I live right down the street from a sonic, which is directly across the street from a Valvoline, who is also running a TF promotion There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere, I'm sure.