Serenity to appear. . . on Cybertron?!?
POSTED BY: Cybersnark
UPDATED: Monday, April 18, 2005 14:26
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According to IMBD (which it only now occurred to me to check), he plays. . . Finn?!? WTF!?!
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O_o
Scrawny, even-voiced, stuck-in-the-seventies Finn is Jayne?!?
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Minor update: an extremely thin article on Yahoo.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=598&e=9&u=/nm/20050315
/film_nm/film_transformers_dc
Nothing really new (or enlightening). Just a list of Kurtzman and Orci's (unreleased, unless I blacked out for a month or so) movies.
Meanwhile, TransformersCon 2005 happens in a few weeks, so there may be more news then.
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And again something belated; a look at the film by Battlestar Galactica concept artist Eric Chu that (apparently) got DeSanto's attention:
http://www.galactica.tv/transformers/
(Low res is 38 megs, high res is 78.)
I was kinda hoping that DeSanto would turn out to be a closet Firefly/Galactica fan, but not yet, anyway.
(And no, I don't think that's the Optimus model they'll be using, since the PTBs confirmed that Prime will be as G1-like as possible.)
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And another update that nobody'll read:
We have a director, as noted on Sci-Fi Wire:
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Michael Bay will direct The Transformers for DreamWorks and Paramount, with Steven Spielberg executive producing, Variety reported. The news confirmed rumors about the movie, which is scheduled for a Thanksgiving 2006 release. Shooting will begin in the fall, the trade paper reported.
This could go either way: Bay has a reputation as a big "popcorn movie" name, but that might be what Transformers merits. Time will tell.
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im here for ya buddy....i will now read this thread instead...sorry. ROLL OUT!
"Hamsters is nice."
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I read 
. It's great someone reports the Transformers related news here since I don't go actively looking for them myself. Thanks.
Apparently Bay has made the Transformers stock soar on HSX. It was $53 yesterday and now $64. I'm making nice profit at least for now.
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A recent Q&A on Don Murphy's site ( http://makeashorterlink.com/?D285128EA) revealed some interesting, ominous, and confusing data. Too much to summarize here, but the salient points:
Dreamworks (the production company) is being problematical. They want to "reinvent" things (which is almost always a bad sign) to make a "better" movie (and we all know how that kinda thing can turn out). Apparently at this point it's a race for the Loyalists (Murphy, DeSanto, Spielberg) to convince Bay (who is still in talks, it turns out) to let them do it their way, and keep the fannish things sacrosanct. It's not that there's any hostility, it's just indifference to the fandom.
DeSanto and the writers want big name stars, and Dreamworks and Hasbro don't care, so no resolution yet on Cullen & Welker.
It also looks like Zoic is in danger of getting frozen out; Bay wants to hire ILM. Not sure what this means, since there seems to be some precedent of personnel-shuffling between FX houses --might be some Zoic people are getting into it even if Zoic itself is not. Any Zoic employees surfing the boards feel able to comment?
Nobody knows what's up with Soundwave. Murphy doesn't want size-changing, but Hasbro is insisting that Soundwave be "in musical form" (I've got a theory. . . 
) and be able to launch Ravage (the panther cassette).
Bumblebee (everybody's favourite yellow VW bug) is another point of confusion. Hasbro has recently filed to reclaim the trademark (they lost the rights to his name years ago), but Murphy reports that Bumblebee likely won't be in the movie, 'cause the writers are worried about the new Herbie movie. That's right, friggin' LIndsey Lohan and Herbie are slaggin' up our Transformers movie! 
It looks like they're now at the point of too many cooks gettin' into the broth. There were 29 people in the meeting, which is far more than is normal (10 of them were from Hasbro, who have proven that they wouldn't know a good story if it came up and performed a colourful metaphor [witness Armada and Energon]). Murphy assures us that nothing is final at this point, and that there's nothing in particular to worry about. He also warns/assures that any and all of this news might change within the next month, week, day, or even hour. He seemed to stress August as a time when changes could occur, reminding us of the "it's not officially decided until it's on screen (and sometimes not even then" philosophy of movie making.
"Official" ETA at this point:
Final ten TFs chosen- 3 weeks
Colors/Models of those ten finalized JULY 1
Prep begin Sept 1
Shoot begin Dec 1
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