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Michael Bay may direct 'Transformers'
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Posted: 10:00 AM EDT (1400 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Michael Bay is in talks to direct the DreamWorks/Paramount live-action adaptation of "The Transformers," Hasbro's popular 1980s toy line of giant robots that morph into cars, trucks, planes, ships and other technological creations.

The move would reteam the director with DreamWorks, which is handling domestic distribution on the movie. Bay is helming DreamWorks' upcoming summer release "The Island," a co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures. (Warner Bros. is a division of Time Warner, as is CNN.)

Bay also would reunite with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who, under their two-year, first-look deal with DreamWorks, rewrote "Island" and wrote "Transformers."

The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, which believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, the other by Megatron, which espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life.

A November 17, 2006, release date has been set. Bay's credits include the two "Bad Boys" movies, "Pearl Harbor," "Armageddon" and "The Rock."

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Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 04-06-2005, 10:20 AM:
 
hell yes!!!
....but he will probably screw it up
 

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Posted by Jarryd Beard (Member # 2543) on 04-06-2005, 10:31 AM:
 
About ten people on my floor shat their pants after I broke this news to them. In fact, one person has a Maximus Prime pocket watch. It's not plastic, but actually gold.
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-06-2005, 01:51 PM:
 
I'd say your staff needs to get out more but I just about had jumped through the roof when I heard rumors there was a Halo movie in the works.
 

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Posted by Jarryd Beard (Member # 2543) on 04-06-2005, 02:29 PM:
 
To clarify, I didn't mean theatre employees. As I'm in college at Pitt, I only work when I go home over breaks and summer. People on my dorm floor got excited. Sorry about that. Even so, it's still kind of pathetic.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-06-2005, 06:11 PM:
 
The only good Transformers are the generation 1 Transformers, which are now shunned by our crappy politically-correct society because Megatron transformed into a gun. The later, crappy versions of Transformers had him turn into a tank or even an animal. God the TF's became lame after generation 1, just like Michael Bay!
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 04-06-2005, 06:59 PM:
 
I'm also a big fan of Gen1. I still have the complete set of the 80 comic books.

Live-action sounds lame anyway.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-06-2005, 07:04 PM:
 
Wolff Kings Favorite comic: "Buster Witwickey and the Carwash of Doom"
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 04-06-2005, 11:51 PM:
 
I am currently borrowing all the DVDs from my friend and have been watching them all one by one. It's quite difficult now that I'm not 10 years old.

Also - now that I'm an adult I want to learn more about the history and evolution of the cartoon. Sadly I think that would require me to learn Japanese.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-07-2005, 01:07 AM:
 
Nah. Japanese animators venerate all of the old masters from the rest of the world. Scott, you can safely put Japan (and any need to learn their language) last on your animation history study list. In the mean time bone up on French, Canadian French, Italian, Russian, and the Canadian and British flavors of English, assuming you wish to read these histories in their first languages. That should keep you busy for a while.

After that come see me for a crash course in Japanese for Animators, including reading and writing in all three character sets, speaking and listening in both Tokyo and Kansai dialects, plus full technical vocabulary for all facets of film/TV animation production and post-production (JPN 501A, 3 credits, non-transferable). Should only take a couple of years. Anjin-san got off way too easy.

Kawasumi-sensei
Chou Sutajio Jiburi Anime Otaku
"Otaku wa tsurai yo!" <-- Yeah I know, bad pun. Sue me.
"It's Tough Being a Fan!"
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 04-12-2005, 10:53 PM:
 
Oh it sounds good, but as we know the history of TV to movie films, I know it will probably not be that good....When I read it was live action all I could think of is people wearing cardboard boxes spray painted to look like the robots. I really loved the cartoon when I was a kid, and I if done right I probably will love the movie.
 

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