Transformers 2 Production Designer Announced

Cool... but... uh... what does a production designer do?

Still, nice to know the movie is moving along, if only at a snail's pace from now until we get a shooting script.

good, lets just hope this stupid strike ends soon

if this movie gets off the ground from the writer's strike, whoo!

Why can't we just wait and see what happens?

Haven't we learned a valuable lesson when it came to the first movie? We expected: amazing, great, live action, Peter Cullen's voice, heavy metal, hystoric lines and a consistent plot worthy of the original cartoon.

What did we get? Probably about half of everything. Not nearly as much as we hoped, but it turned out alright, not great, not mind-blowing, even the story changed somehow and the names of some elements (no... i still can't call it "spark", to me it is and will always be "Matrix"). It hit the target it was aimed at, and before you say anything... no. It wasn't us. The target is kids and adults who barely know Transformers and don't care about great stories and nostalgia, they want quick Summer thrills and that's it. They got it to the sound of almost 300 million dollars worth of tickets sold world-wide.
If i was interested in the script i'd be one of the guys working on it.
I think i'll just do what i did before Michael Bay "ruined my childhood memories": i'll sit tight, watch some YouTube sneak peaks, read some pointless articles and wait for a movie that part of me will hate with a passion, but that in the end will end up in my DVD collection anyway. Right next to "Transformers - The Movie".

fabiobasile wrote:(no... i still can't call it "spark", to me it is and will always be "Matrix")

I don't know who told you that "spark" & "Autobot Matrix of Leadership" were the same, but in TF mythology a "spark" is a TF's life force, & is more comparable to a G1's robot's personality component.

In fact, IIRC, I believe that originally they were going to call the Allspark the Matrix, but didn't because Neo sucks, so they decided to make it the Energon cube, but didn't because fans quickly pointed out that energon was food, not a source of life....so if anything was going to be matrix-like, it would have been the allspark (& thank Primus none of that happened).

Savage wrote:I still say that the Allspark is more comparable to Vector Sigma/the Oracle than to the Matrix.

It probably is, but in the comics, IIRC, it was called the "Creation Matrix" & held some small ounce of Primus' power to give life, similar to what the Allspark does. In the cartoon, it just held the wisdom of previous autobot leaders.....& apparently an anti-giant planet Transformer virus......

Wait...their making ANOTHER Mummy movie? Didn't the Flop of the Scorpion King teach them a lesson?

RagingBull wrote:any news on ben procter jumping in again?, he done some fantastic work for the first movie.

i hope to god they dont give into the G1 hardcores *rolls eyes* and let the super cool movie styles turn more g1.

When did "crappy-wiry-tin-foil" start word-filtering to cool?