Transformers 2 Movie Writers Announced

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Too bad Don Murphy is back, the last thing the world needs is a crude, rude, lying, opinionated, dimwitted fat man mouthing off and being a general jerk.

Honestly, I'm more concerned about Lorenzo DiBonaventura. The man's filmography makes terrifying reading. Still, this bunch pulled a big metal transforming rabbit out of a hat that promptly exploded last time, so I'm not going to go painting a "Down With Loz" placard just yet.

Bob and Alex seemed really enthusiastic at Botcon. They said at their panel that they'd rather have new writers with a good story idea come on board than come back themselves and just write something bland. I guess they had a good idea

-Nick

How, pray tell, is this good news?
I'll go see it if Kremzeek kills Optimus Prime.

Wow, a lot of negativity here.

I for one welcome the two writers back. They now know how anal we are and how we can spot odd things in their story, they know what they probably want/could do different this time around. I'm sure they have learned a lot or thought of other ideas since they first wrote the first movie.

Now a third creative mind to add to the mix. Bring it on.

A lot of negativity...

They turned what could have been Transformers' shining moment where it once and for all proved to the world to be a deep, complex and epic story into a two-hour version of the 1984 cartoon, only with astoundingly less emphasis on the robots.

The critics gave it slightly higher than mediocre marks because they said it was good for what it is: A two-hour toy commercial. I didn't want it to be a "two-hour toy commerical." I didn't want people to go, "That's what I expected." I wanted people to go, "Wow, I didn't realize there was so much to these toys. Now I see what all the hype was about."

As far as I'm concerned, they stole our moment of glory and made it into a toy commercial arguably as well-written as the 1980's cartoon.

Seibertron wrote:Ehren Kruger is an interesting choice. Here's his IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472567/

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I'm glad to see the rest of the crew back on board. I think one of the worst things that could happen would for #2 to have a totally different feel than #1 (no bathroom jokes now). This is actually great news that they're already putting the team together for #2. We just might see this movie released on June 26th, 2009 afterall.

** Goes to fire off an email to one of the extreme powers that be in this list for consulting position for the movie **

My peace of mind has been shattered...

Briggs wrote:

Ultra Magnus wrote:Odd things in the story? Like Megatron DEAD??? Cybertron Completely Dead? The total LACK of any sort of "Re-energizing" for these living robots? I wouldn't call those "odd things". I'd call those GLARING mistakes.

On the other hand, I'm glad that it is the same ppl that wrote the story for the first movie, because they proably have ideas for an overall arc. I knew there would be a 2. Now let's just see how good it is...

Lol.. what? How are those mistakes? They were part of the story, in this continuity. You just don't like parts of it, which is fine, but they are hardly mistakes.

Oddities that I am talking about are things such as the lack of clarification that Ratchets beam was helping heal bumblebee when fired it at him, or why Jazz just sorta sat there in car mode when bumblebee was laying in two pieces, etc.

I like to think that it was Bumblebee's direct contact with the Allspark that fixed his voice box, much like it gave Frenzy his body back. However, this line of thought would have conflicts with other parts of the story, especially if you consider the IDW prequel to be cannon. If I recall correctly, Bumblebee held the AllSpark after Megatron damaged his voice box but it's been since February since I read the prequel comic so I might not be remembering that correctly. Even so, if it was Bumblebee's contact with the AllSpark that fixed his voice, why did it take so long for it to take effect whereas Frenzy got his body back immediately?

The explanation for Jazz is simple: budget restraints. It's cheaper to have him in car mode versus robot or battle mode. It's the most glaring "we need to do this so we don't go over budget" part of the movie to me, though there are plenty of other areas where I can definitely see that they were cost cutting (this isn't a negative comment ... you can see it in all movies from Star Wars to The Departed).

Blozor wrote:A lot of negativity...

They turned what could have been Transformers' shining moment where it once and for all proved to the world to be a deep, complex and epic story into a two-hour version of the 1984 cartoon, only with astoundingly less emphasis on the robots.

Personal opinion, not relevant.

Blozor wrote:The critics gave it slightly higher than mediocre marks because they said it was good for what it is: A two-hour toy commercial. I didn't want it to be a "two-hour toy commerical." I didn't want people to go, "That's what I expected." I wanted people to go, "Wow, I didn't realize there was so much to these toys. Now I see what all the hype was about."

Critics unfortunately don't really matter, unless all the people that went to see Transformers said "Huh, well the critics said it was mediocre, so I'm going to go see it.

Blozor wrote:As far as I'm concerned, they stole our moment of glory and made it into a toy commercial arguably as well-written as the 1980's cartoon.

No worries, doesn't work for everyone!

Nice to see Orci come back, I always liked the guy, he has a great rapport with the fans.

Ehren Kruger is also an interesting choice, and given his prior work, I think he's a positive addition to the team.

I'm glad they didn't change too much around. When franchises make drastic changes to their horse mid-stream, sometimes the results can be less than satisfactory (see X-Men 3)

Briggs wrote:

Blozor wrote:The critics gave it slightly higher than mediocre marks because they said it was good for what it is: A two-hour toy commercial. I didn't want it to be a "two-hour toy commerical." I didn't want people to go, "That's what I expected." I wanted people to go, "Wow, I didn't realize there was so much to these toys. Now I see what all the hype was about."

Critics unfortunately don't really matter, unless all the people that went to see Transformers said "Huh, well the critics said it was mediocre, so I'm going to go see it.

Transformers was much more than a 2 hour toy commercial. It was also a 2 hour car commercial and a 2 hour pro-military movie.

It's Transformers folks. What more do you want? Transformers will never have the epic and coherent feel of the Star Wars franchise. I feel like so many of you want Transformers to be treated like Star Wars. It's never going to happen. Transformers was originally conceived as a toyline that was immediately marketed as a comic book and a cartoon. Star Wars was originally conceived as a science fiction fantasy movie first and it became a comic/cartoon/toy series later down the road. Hasbro, a toy company, is in charge of the Transformers brand. Star Wars has George Lucase in charge. Two different agendas. Two different concepts.

Transformers will always be a 30 minute toy commercial. That's what they are.