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Plot
Michael Bay has confirmed that the movie starts out with a battle on Cybertron. It then moves to the Arctic Circle during the 1800s where Captain Archibald Witwicky is shown chipping away at a massive sheet of ice, only to break through it and fall into the abyss on the other side. Witwicky lands on a robotic hand partially buried in the ice, and looks up to find the eyes of Megatron staring back at him. Megatron burns a map showing the location of the mysterious "Allspark" into Witwicky's eyeglasses, which are handed down to his descendant, Sam (Shia LaBeouf), in the present day. When Witwicky buys his first car from dealer Bobby Bolivia (Bernie Mac), it transpires that it is the Autobot, Bumblebee, and Witwicky comes under the protection of the Autobots as the Decepticons come looking for the map.

Ain't It Cool News reports that an early scene in the film will feature the giant robotic scorpion Decepticon, Scorponok, attacking a Middle Eastern Army base in the present day. The "Allspark" has also been referred to as both the "Energon Cube" and the "Energon Crystal"; the earliest description credited it as "responsible for Transformer life on Earth." Per the words of LaBeouf in a recent interview, this appears to mean that it possesses the power to bring to life ordinary machines, turning them into Transformers too. In this respect, it is similar to the Creation Matrix of the original Transformers comics.

Several release dates:
  • US - July 4th 2007
  • Austria - July 4th 2007
  • Belgium - July 15th 2007
  • France - July 25th 2007
  • Germany - July 4th 2007
  • Mexico - July 20th 2007
  • The Netherlands - July 26th 2007
  • UK - July 27th 2007
  • Sweden - August 3rd 2007
Transformers that will be appearing in the movie:

Autobots:
Optimus Prime (voiced by none other than Peter Cullen)
Bumblebee
Jazz
Ratchet
Ironhide

Decepticons:
Megatron
Starscream
Brawl
Bonecrusher
Barricade
Scorponok
Frenzy
Blackout

Edited by CSCfan

Early designs..

 

Optimus Prime

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/3941344e686dd24405.jpg

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/847-550x-hedudegg2.jpg

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/846-550x-opamrlrs9.jpg

 

Incinerator

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/3941344e68584039b5.jpg

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/3941344e685841b497.jpg

 

Starscream

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/3941344e686dd5ca67.jpg

 

Scorponok

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/3941344e686dd38c25.jpg

 

Megatron

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/867-550x-megatron1.jpg

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/868-550x-megatron2.jpg

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/869-550x-megatronhead2.jpg

 

http://www.filmwad.com/ul/870-550x-megatronhead.jpg

 

 

Ok, here's a review of an early draft of the movie! :cool:

 

* * SPOILERS * *

 

So what is the story about?

 

I guessed it pretty much way before I ever got the script. It is quite simple actually. What was the original Television series about? What were both the Decpticons and Autobots after that was depleted on their home planet of Cybertron?

 

The Energon Cube. A supreme power that imbues the Transformers with the gift of “spark†– the life force within all the Transformers.

 

So in a nutshell, Optimus Prime and the Autobots have to find the Energon Cube on Earth before Megatron and the Decepticons do. That is what the Transformer Movie coming next year in 2007 is simply all about. The Autobots and the Decepticons each have their reasons for finding the Energon cube, but I won’t spoil it here. Just know that is what the script is about.

 

[....]

 

Ok, so what is the verdict? Is it whack? Is it good?

 

As a diehard transformers fan, I reads this script objectively TWICE. Last night and today.

 

THE SCRIPT ROCKS! Utter adulation! The story is dope!

 

[....]

 

I read half of the very first draft of John Rodgers delivered in Jan 2005, I couldn’t finish the other half, my source had to give the script back and hence why I couldn’t do a script review on it like I wanted last year. I knew that I would get the script again eventually. The script and its development have progressed quite nicely. This current draft is up to snuff; it’s organic, nothing coincidental, the structure sound, and the action PLENTY! Especially the robot on robot action and the military on robot action. My goodness I can’t wait to see this translated to the screen. What Quint of AICN saw in the animatics is all here on the page. This draft is a lean 111 pages. Another thing about the script is how unexpectedly funny and witty it is! This thing is gonna get the right laughs in the right places. Certain parts of it had me rolling.

 

So out of respect to the filmmaking team on Transformers, I’m only going take a quick peek at the 1st 10 pages and keep the spoilers as lite as possible. I will just paint the broadstrokes.

 

The script opens 1 million years before the dawn of man with the energon cube hurtling through space on it’s path towards Earth. A narrator tells us that the ravages of war destroyed Cybertron, a war raged between the legions who worship chaos and those who follow freedom. They battled for a supreme power, the Energon Cube. It’s origin unknown yet it bears the life-force that created the transformer race. They fought until their world was awash in death until the very ground swallowed whole their once mighty cities and the cube was lost to the limitless stars. Then by fortune or fate, its course was altered, drawn to a planet called Earth. They have searched for the cube across desserts of time, hoping to find it before the dark legions, but as fate would have it, they were already too late.

 

We are then in the artic circle in 1897 on a national Antarctic expedition and focus on a derelict sailing vessel trapped in ice. The crew works desperately to free the ship. The dogs bark, there is something in the ice. The captain, two men and the dogs go out over the artic shelf and look at whatever is buried under the ice. A huge rift opens, one of the dogs and the captain falls into a 30ft fissure. We pull back and see the captain standing on the palm of a giant steel hand, half in and half out of the ice. A mechanized face is embedded within the ice wall, expression frozen in a scream. The Captain wipes away ice to reveal symbol on the mechanoid – the Decepticon emblem. The captain takes a pick axe and stars chopping away at the ice to take a better look, activates something on the robot’s chasis and something happens.

 

Next we are in present day Qatar, the Middle East as two air force cv-22 ospreys skim the dunes. Piloting the two planes, we meet SERGEANT WILLIAM LENNOX US AIR FORCE COMBAT CONTROLLER, and ARMY CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER JORGE FIGUEROA “FIGâ€, Dominican by way of the Louisiana Bayou who sings along to Reggaeton on the stereo. Holy cow! A Dominican like myself as one of the good guys! This is the Amaury Nolasco character and not the Michael Clarke Duncan character. My only gripe is that Dominicans don’t hail from the bayou. I have neither Dominican friends nor relatives and they have no Dominican friends or relatives who hail from the bayou. Any of you out there? Let me know. I am certainly a displaced Dominican here in Los Angeles so it would be a first if there were other displaced Dominicans in the bayou. Fig, like any food loving Latino, talks about pasteles and spiced adobo pork in this scene with Lennox and it makes me wonder if the writer Roberto Orci is Latino. But props to the writers for making the Latino character a heroic character.

 

Anyways, Lennox and Fig arrive back at Soccent Operations Center and we meet the rest of the Army team there on the tarmac – SARGEANT FIRST CLASS DONNELLY (Irish-American), and STAFF SARGEANT EPPS (the Tyrese Gibson character). We also meet an Arab boy MAHFOUZ.

 

Inside the operations center, a bogey appears on radar. Two f-22’s go and intercept the bogey. The bogey, a massive MH-53 helicopter appears over the dunes. The f-22 gives the bogey a warning and then escorts it back to base. There seems to be a mistake because that chopper was shot down 3 months ago. Something is not right with the Soccent Watch Commander. There has got to be a mistake. At the loading bay, the bogey lets out a loud shriek, disables all the radar and computers, transforms into the Decepticon VORTEX and attacks the base! It vaporizes a row of c-17 cargo planes! All the planes hangars are destroyed in the blast! Vortex rips the roof off of the JOC JOINT OPERATIONS CENTER and attempts to hack into the cray computers and tries to download a file:

 

PROJECT: ICE MAN: ABOVE TOP SECRET: SECTION SEVEN ACCESS ONLY. We see the alien transformer code. A techie takes an axe and cuts the hard line; the cable explodes, cutting off Vortex’s connection. Pissed off Vortex obliterates everyone. The op-center explodes in a thousand directions. Vortex stomps down and crushes a vehicle King Kong style! Complete chaos at the base. Skorponok disengages from Vortex’s back and goes on the hunt for Lennox, Epps, Fig, Donnelly and the other soldiers!

 

And that is just the 1st 10 pages folks! Action packed! The rest of the script is just as tight. The 3rd act is wall to wall action! A Transformer fan’s dream!

 

Some other 1st act story details:

 

- After the blockbuster opening we meet SAM WITWICKY at Tranquility high school, the unfortunate yet adorable dork that he is, his love interest MIKALELA BARNES, her ******* boyfriend TRENT DEMARCO. We also meet Sam’s Chihuahua MOJO.

 

- Sam’s father RON picks him up after school and they meet up with a shady car dealer BOBBY BOLIVIA. Since Ron got 3 A’s, his dad got four grand to buy Sam a car. Sam ends up buying a 75 Camaro, which we by now all know is BUMBLEBEE. The Autobot emblem is on the steering wheel.

 

- Later we meet MAGGIE MARCONI, 28 and GLEN WHITTMAN (Michael Clarke Duncan) who work at a Washington think tank the Rand Corporation. Glen’s character is funny as **** in this.

 

- Maggie gets taken to the Pentagon by agents and gets recruited by JOHN KELLER, the secretary of defense (John Voight), since she is a signal analyst to make sense of the signal and shriek that hit Qatar.

 

- And in a super cool sequence towards the end of Act 1, SOUNDWAVE is aboard AIR FORCE ONE! A Decepticon aboard the same plane as the President!

 

For now that is all I’m gonna say. The script is definitely MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE.

 

We also get to see the Transformers in their mechanoid states and see how they select their disguises or the vehicles they transform in and out. Like Bay said, we see how the military responds to a situation like Transformers. The chase sequence is off the chain. The battles are super cool, and there are some funny *** moments in this, like I said an A+…

Optimus....?

 

http://home.comcast.net/~optimusdesign/optimusprime1co5.jpg

 

And here are some clearer pics of Optimus.. this is concept art and the Prime on that movie poster I posted above was made after this..

 

http://www.thetransformers.net/memberimages/C52_primefront.jpg http://www.thetransformers.net/memberimages/F86_primeback.jpg

http://www.thetransformers.net/memberimages/B35_primeface.jpg

 

I'm glad this won't be the actual/final look.. his face is just so not Prime (pun intended :P)..:nono:

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this will all look like in animation..:cool:

 

 

The AICN interview with Shia LaBeouf is now online!

 

Some interesting extracts (spoilers!)..

 

SHIA LABEOUF: [....] There's a lot of stuff... you know, there's new robots that he'll create. Or he'll take something like Soundwave and turn it into Soundbyte and it'll become something else. That's understandable, but in no way is he tainting this at all. If anything he's turning it up and modernizing it. There are certain things, like Megatron wasn't a jet, you know?

 

QUINT: I'm curious how that's going to translate. I don't mind that he's a jet so much because even as a kid I thought it was a bit weird that the king of all badass villain robots could turn into a gun that somebody else had to use. It kind of took some of his power away...

 

SHIA LABEOUF: Right, right. That's sort of what Soundwave was about. Those characters all had meaning because Megatron needed that crutch. Now that that's gone, it's done in other ways. Megatron's crutch now is that he's frozen. But it's modernized. You can't have a toy gun. You've got 9 year olds watching this movie and yes, we're creating mythology, but you can't make a toy gun your antihero and then have Hasbro go out and sell toy guns with the little yellow cap on it, you know? It'll look ****in' ridiculous to have Megatron with a yellow nose, you know what I mean? It'd look retarded.

The fact that it's a Razor, a plane that nobody's seen before, that the military is giving us... that nobody has filmed or seen. I mean, CNN has not seen this plane and we're filming it. It's cool. It gives it that edgy ****. People have seen guns before, but to make Megatron something that nobody's ever seen and make it an edgy presence... it does, it modernizes it and makes it dangerous again. Guns aren't dangerous. How crazy is that to say? But guns aren't dangerous! You've got guns in movies that aren't dangerous at all, you know? I feel like HERBIE THE LOVE BUG could have had a gun and nobody would have questioned it, you know?

 

QUINT: Maybe stashed in the glove compartment...

 

SHIA LABEOUF: (laughs) Exactly, it could have been in the glove compartment! But a Razor, you know, with nuclear weapons... Nuclear weapons is what's dangerous. In the '80s it was the gun, but we've been (desensitized), so you've got to amp it up a little bit. And Michael Bay is the dude to amp everything up!

 

QUINT: You know... I sat down with Bay before shooting and he told me that the whole hook for him with this project wasn't the robots or the action. He said it was the human story, specifically your story, what he called the All-American story of a kid getting his first car.

 

SHIA LABEOUF: When I met with him he said the same thing. That's why I was into it. I mean, yes it was TRANSFORMERS and oh ****! You're taking me to meet with Michael Bay, but then he was like, "It's a coming of age story." I would never fathom him saying those words. From what I know of Michael Bay and his career and his philosophies on filmmaking, I would have never imagined that. It's something new for him, as it is for me. I mean, he walked onto a set with a 19 year old, 20 year old actor... We'd never met each other before and we've done minimal rehearsals and then we're on set and he's granting me power to have creative control. It's rewarding, it's very fulfilling to know that a person of that stature...

 

QUINT: Tell me a little bit more about the character you play.

 

SHIA LABEOUF: Sam is... (pauses). The engine of Sam, for the film, essentially he is the liaison between the robots and the humans. The government is too closed minded to conceive of a reality like this, of alien machines... it's just too much. So, they bestow power upon these people who are experts at their crafts, whether it be the technician or the Dogs of War, or the braintrust who is able to communicate with the robots.

And the reason Sam is able to communicate with the robots... It's not because he knows some ****in' alien language. Sam Whitwicky comes from a lineage of explorers. Captain Archibald Whitwicky was his great, great grandfather, a 19th Century Seaman, who, during a search, an exploration of the arctic circle, fell upon an ice cave. Fell into the ice cave and into a hand; the hand of Megatron. What he saw when he turned was an eye which burned a laser into his eyeglasses, which was a map of where the Energon Cube is being stored.

When Optimus and the Autobots come to Earth, they're looking for the same thing the Decepticons, obviously. The way that they get there is the map on the glasses. Who has the glasses? Sam has the glasses. So, he becomes the liaison between them and their goal. I'm the middle man.

 

QUINT: There's also an element of protection, as well. They protect you from the Decepticons.

 

SHIA LABEOUF: Yeah. Bumblebee becomes my guardian because now that I am the liaison there's power. It's like knowing where the next oil well is, for Americans. Now you have this power, everyone's going to come after you. The Energon Cube is that. Every time I think of this Energon Cube... I know of the Transformers, but when I'm explaining to my mother, that's how I always explain it. It's like oil for America. That's what it is. And there's a lot of political **** in this. If you're watching and if you have the imagination, can become a kid again, you'll understand.

Mike is very political, but he's also very flag-waving American. That's why we are able to have army here. There's army guys here all the time.

 

QUINT: Who is Turturro playing?

 

SHIA LABEOUF: Turturro plays Simmons, who is the CIA agent who is so closed minded that he can't listen to a child. He's the head of a section of the government called Sector 7, which controls everything the CIA doesn't know about.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/4418245175325074b9.jpg

 

 

Main unit shooting wrapped Up! :D

 

Today is the last day of main unit shooting. In two hours we'll break for lunch. Then blow up more **** in downtown LA.

 

Next week a reduced unit with very few actors will head to different cities and pick up some establishing shots. Then some of the team will head to the Frozen North.

 

The film is basically done today boys and girls. And by done I mean filming. If ever there was a film that was really going to be made in post production, this is it. Much editing and many effects to go.

 

How do I feel? There is a promo reel that has been put together for exhibitors and retailers that is mind boggling. There is a trailer being put together for later this year that should blow your mind.

 

I'm feeling pretty good that we've made a film that you will like. Only time will tell.

 

I had a water pipe break in the downstairs of our house yesterday. A neighbor called to say the firemen were breaking in. We imagined a lot of damage and, oddly, found very little. Fortunate.

 

May your Sunday be fortunate Stooges. Hang tight!

I am really excited for this movie also! I hope its along the lines of traditional 80's transformers that I grew up loving. I love the original 80's movie also

excuse me is your name Elias? :lol: :lol:

 

Why is that? :lol: :P

 

I am really excited for this movie also! I hope its along the lines of traditional 80's transformers that I grew up loving. I love the original 80's movie also

 

The 80's movie will get re-released on DVD (widescreen, etc.!!) as a "25th Anniversary Special Edition" in November! :thumbup: Go HERE for more info..B)

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Why is that? :lol: :P

 

he is the character who was obsessed with the transformers in clerks 2.

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Transformers that will be appearing in the movie:

 

Autobots:

Optimus Prime (voiced by none other than Peter Cullen)

Bumblebee

Jazz

Ratchet

Ironhide

 

 

looking at the list of models used in total film there seems to be a deal in place with General Motors (of Vaxhall, Saab, 'not getting into bed with renault-nissan' and financial crisis fame :lol: )

 

lots of chevy's and pontiacs.

 

couldnt bumblebee at least have been a daewoo matiz ffs :lol: :lol:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/2005_Chevrolet_Matiz_M200.jpg

 

would be more like this:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Bumblebee-boxart.jpg

 

and the pontiac aztek should have been used. its frickin evil and anyway it looks like a Decepticon after transforming anyway :lol: :lol:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Pontiac-Aztek.jpg

I really just hope this movie does not get message up! If its not done right I will be outraged
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I really just hope this movie does not get message up! If its not done right I will be outraged

 

i suppose it depends on if your pissed off whether the right models are used or not?

 

and is orson wells gonna turn up ina cameo like marlon in superman retrurns :lol:

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