Artwork and Poster for Unproduced WWII set Transformers Film Operation Skyfire
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Remember the writers room thing? One of the ideas was Operation Skyfire which would of been a movie taking place during War World 2 and presumably by the name Skyfire would of been the main character perhaps and probably a different character from Jetfire from ROTF, while a whole movie didn't pan out it did influence the WW2 flashbacks in The Last Knight.
These pictures were in the bonus features but I think this is the first clear picture of them.
This was uploaded on the Artstation of JP Targete and here are his words on the artwork.
"A few years back me and a few other concept artist were invited by Paramount to participate in the "Transformers writer's room". We were there to help the writers visualize their unique "Transformers" movies. The results were exciting and fresh and gave a "new" take on the Transformer's Mythology. The images you see are a result of one of the "Transformer MOVIES" That was presented to Paramount and Steven Spielberg. The images can be seen on the special features of the "Transformers The Last Knight" Blue-ray. I was honored to be a part of this."




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Also the new movieverse, if rebooted would not be the Knightverse as he would have to direct all installments for that to be the case. My current thinking is that they will try and have their cake and eat it, with keeping the movies in the timeline set up with the other films but allowing the style of the bots to change with no explanation (thinking we fans will take care of any inconsistencies

Posted by no-one on February 6th, 2019 @ 7:42am CST


The WWII aesthetic is cool and all, but I can't help but feel they missed the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot when the world was obsessed with the WWII Call of Duty games.
That being said, I'd be down with a "Transformers though time" off shoot line. It could be like Assassin's Creed, only with robits

Posted by Sabrblade on February 6th, 2019 @ 8:43am CST
The Bumblebee movie pretended like the WWII scenes of TLK never happened.LevelRage wrote:Man, I would love to see this come to light later on for the movie-verse. Probably could even retcon the issue of Bee's WW2 scene and his solo movie. Also feels kinda steam-punkish in a way to me.
Posted by no-one on February 6th, 2019 @ 8:48am CST
Isn't everyone trying to pretend that TLK never happenedSabrblade wrote:The Bumblebee movie pretended like the WWII scenes of TLK never happened.LevelRage wrote:Man, I would love to see this come to light later on for the movie-verse. Probably could even retcon the issue of Bee's WW2 scene and his solo movie. Also feels kinda steam-punkish in a way to me.

Posted by Whifflefire on February 6th, 2019 @ 11:36am CST
The face on the carrier plane looks like first-Movie Megatron's head design, but I can't imagine any logical or sensible explanation for why Megatron (or anybody) would want to turn into an aircraft that exposes their entire face.
Could it have been nudged because the concept of a superhero period war film was already being done that year with Wonder Woman? Maybe they wanted to avoid looking like they'd copied the idea.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on February 6th, 2019 @ 12:47pm CST
carytheone wrote:Isn't everyone trying to pretend that TLK never happenedSabrblade wrote:The Bumblebee movie pretended like the WWII scenes of TLK never happened.LevelRage wrote:Man, I would love to see this come to light later on for the movie-verse. Probably could even retcon the issue of Bee's WW2 scene and his solo movie. Also feels kinda steam-punkish in a way to me.
Nope, I'm pretending Bumblebee never happened and all this WWII stuff did. This stuff looks great. Shame it was never produced into a film.
Posted by ScottyP on February 6th, 2019 @ 5:15pm CST
Posted by YRQRM0 on February 6th, 2019 @ 10:37pm CST
Whifflefire wrote:Definitely would have seen this. Especially if 'Skyfire' actually referred to Skyfire. Where do I sign for this to actually be made...
The face on the carrier plane looks like first-Movie Megatron's head design, but I can't imagine any logical or sensible explanation for why Megatron (or anybody) would want to turn into an aircraft that exposes their entire face.
Could it have been nudged because the concept of a superhero period war film was already being done that year with Wonder Woman? Maybe they wanted to avoid looking like they'd copied the idea.
I'm guessing it's the Nazi's homage to Megatron, who they somehow know about. Or the Decepticon's homage. Either way, I'm sure it would have been about as dumb as Transformium.
Posted by Ravage XK on February 7th, 2019 @ 10:29am CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 7th, 2019 @ 5:17pm CST
Ravage XK wrote:The look of the large plane reminded me of movie Devestator.
That's what I thought when I saw it too
Posted by MaximalNui on November 6th, 2022 @ 5:42pm CST


Not sure what's scarier: the massive size of that Quintesson Judge, or that Unicron's hand has a face in it!

...you know what, nevermind. This is scarier.

Decepti-gremlins!
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ravage XK wrote:The look of the large plane reminded me of movie Devestator.
That's what I thought when I saw it too
How about Megatron-locomotive?



Bumblebee: Skull Island

Not gonna lie, though, if this was a Cybertron overtaken by wilderness instead of a secret Earth island, I'd love a movie or episode around this setting.
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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 7th, 2022 @ 8:31pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on November 7th, 2022 @ 10:44pm CST
Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Still wish those ideas had gotten a chance, that Operation Skyfire movie just speaks to me on so many levels

"Mein Fuhrer, the Iceman cometh!"
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 8th, 2022 @ 6:15pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Still wish those ideas had gotten a chance, that Operation Skyfire movie just speaks to me on so many levels
"Mein Fuhrer, the Iceman cometh!"
I really don't care that much, a WWII Transformers movie is my dream
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on November 29th, 2022 @ 8:18pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.
It would if it was ROTF Megatron, but if they used the 07 design and ended the movie with him being refrozen it could kinda work!
Posted by william-james88 on November 30th, 2022 @ 12:02am CST
Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Still wish those ideas had gotten a chance, that Operation Skyfire movie just speaks to me on so many levels
"Mein Fuhrer, the Iceman cometh!"
The continuity in these films has already been massacred.
Posted by Sabrblade on November 30th, 2022 @ 12:22am CST
Hence my use of the words "even further".william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Still wish those ideas had gotten a chance, that Operation Skyfire movie just speaks to me on so many levels
"Mein Fuhrer, the Iceman cometh!"
The continuity in these films has already been massacred.
Posted by william-james88 on November 30th, 2022 @ 5:40pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Hence my use of the words "even further".william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Still wish those ideas had gotten a chance, that Operation Skyfire movie just speaks to me on so many levels
"Mein Fuhrer, the Iceman cometh!"
The continuity in these films has already been massacred.
Something interesting though that I never really considered: Megatron's defauly body in universe seems to be his ROTF one rather than his movie 1 look. Within the marketting campaign for the first film, Megatron's look was said to be his interstellar travel mode (or something like that). So a mode used for a specific purpose, not his actual standard form. We had toys of Prime and Starscream in those modes as well.
Megs gets his well known tank body form in the second movie and in the third film, where his alt mode changes to a truck, we can still see the foundation blocks of his ROTF body but now with truck mode kibble. So that tells me that even in a WWII alt mode, he would still have a body similar to his ROTF one in bot mode.
Posted by william-james88 on December 1st, 2022 @ 9:16am CST
Where did that come from? I know Mark Wahlberg was trying to fix his voice box earlier but failed at it. Was there a scene that I missed (I only watched the film once) where he was still trying and it had to take a while for it to work or something like that? Or did it really just come out of nowhere? Was there an explanation? And why did Bee not simply keep speaking in his normal voice after that?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 1st, 2022 @ 7:35pm CST
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:I LOVE this concept art, I'm really bummed this movie didn't pan out!Sabrblade wrote:Although, it would have massacred the continuity of the movies even further, since the concept art also depicts ROTF Megatron participating in WWII.
It would if it was ROTF Megatron, but if they used the 07 design and ended the movie with him being refrozen it could kinda work!
Whatever works, I would have loved this too!
william-james88 wrote:Hey all, question for you. There is a lot I dislike about the Last Knight but one bit that I just find wild and pure nonsense is the deux ex machina bit where Bumblebee speaks to Optimus in his actual voice and that's what snaps Optimus out of his Nemesis Prime persona.
Where did that come from? I know Mark Wahlberg was trying to fix his voice box earlier but failed at it. Was there a scene that I missed (I only watched the film once) where he was still trying and it had to take a while for it to work or something like that? Or did it really just come out of nowhere? Was there an explanation? And why did Bee not simply keep speaking in his normal voice after that?
I always understood that the beating he was taking actually knocked his original voice box back into line somehow. After the Siri voicebox didn't work out, I like to think his original was put back in since he didn't use that siri voice, and since Ratchet had gotten it to work temporarily before, it was that close to being back to functioning, and considering the throttling Prime was giving him, that was the specific shots that did it, since he really hadn't been choke slammed like that before in the films