The Transformers Live Action Film

By Loath June 12, 2003 12:31 PM

Introduced in the mid-1980s, the Transformers brand centers on a group of robots that are able to change into a variety of objects, such as cars, trucks, planes, ships and other technological creations.

The feature film will tell the story of an intergalactic war between two races of robots: the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. When their fight comes to Earth, the future of humanity inevitably hangs in the balance.

A recent comic book based on "The Transformers" and a DVD of the original cartoon series have also become best sellers.

Currently, The Transformers can be seen seven times a week via the series "Transformers Armada" on the Cartoon Network. According to Hasbro, additional television programs and comic books are on the schedule for 2004.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 13, 2003 4:55 AM

I hope it doesn't end up like power rangers when they used to make their retarded robots attach together to get really big and fight with another retarded bad guy that would also grow big and it would basically be two retards in crappy costumes. Yea, I hope it's not like that.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 13, 2003 7:28 AM

Golly, I hope it *is* just like that.

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Posted by Skullfire (hulacete@ubbi.com) on June 13, 2003 12:59 PM

Retardobots!

transformers   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 22, 2003 5:14 PM

i saw a clip of some technology used maybe a year ago that showed an actual voltzwagon beetle transform ( live action) the cgi was seemless...hope the movies is the same

good news   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 24, 2003 12:41 PM

This is great news for guys like me who grew up in the 80's. I saw the same CG video clip that was metioned by "random shemp". The clip was really impressive. If they do this up-coming movie in the same way, it should be really good.

THIS IS GREAT!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 24, 2003 12:44 PM

It's about freakin' time someone thought of this!!!

It's About Time!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 24, 2003 12:53 PM

I was wondering when Hollywood was going to wake up and realize that the real cash cow in this counrty is the age group that grew up in the 80's, and if they want to cash in on this age group they have to make movies based on the after school cartoons that came on between 1983 and 1989. The Transformers is a good start but there are many more to go, like Voltron, G.I. Joe, or the Thundercats.

RE: It's About Time!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 27, 2003 2:40 AM

Thundercats,Thundercats,
Thundercats
          RAWR

http://www.transformersmovie.com   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 30, 2003 3:06 AM

Check out this new website based on the transformers.

http://www.transformersmovie.com

RE: It's About Time!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 3, 2003 10:18 PM

I Cant Wait........

the movie is in the works now   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 15, 2003 2:10 PM

hi, i am the voice of Starscream in the new live action transformers movie and i would like to let you know, you can pick up the transformers novel that the movie will be based on at , books - a - million. it is called transformers hardwiered, and it WILL be a three part movie.

More than meets the eye   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 4, 2003 12:57 PM

If the movie is based on this type of CGI, then they got my vote!

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/themichaelsmith/VWHiRes.mpg

original tranformers ruled   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 19, 2003 11:16 AM

this new transformers armadda crap is just that...crap. if the try to adapt a movie from this new stuff, they will lose the core fans who were there from the beginning and hold the roots sacred. i will be let down beyond believe if they flub this. i have every episode, and both movies on dvd. (second one being Return of Optimus Prime)

about time   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 30, 2003 1:28 PM

well is about time they did a transformer movie and i hope is not like the power ranger

transformer movie   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 9, 2003 1:10 PM

this movie should be a very cool movie. the transformers were awesome. they should also do Thundercats, like mentioned. Everybody loves nolstalgia.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 30, 2004 12:39 PM

send me the web site to see the clip,i have been lookin all over for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reigndragon@hotmail.com

transformer live action movie   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 20, 2004 11:30 AM

Let's hope,they follow
the original premise
of the 1983 cartoon series.& don't screw it up like all the other remakes.

love the robots   reply

Posted by tekkaman (nooboy) on June 26, 2004 3:07 PM

"...Although the "Transformers" toys have changed over the years ? from animal shapes to the current series of futuristic machines ? Murphy said the movie would be based on the original lineup..."

-good news yes??
can't wait..

Transformers Live Action Movie Storylines....   reply

Posted by ronniepooch (No Email) on July 23, 2004 11:58 PM

I?ve been thinking about how they should go about this new Live-Action Transformers film ever since they announced it. Here are my thoughts: They HAVE to be faithful to the original cartoons in some respects so new audiences will understand what Transformers are all about. First and foremost, it?s all about the Transformers, not the human characters (with respect to Spike and his father). Start off by casting no-name actors so they don?t garner any attention. Second, they MUST gather all of the voices responsible for the original transformers. I would also love to hear Vince DiCola responsible for the Soundtrack. I just can?t think of another composer that has brought the Transformers world to life as much as he did. As far as story, they need to come up with a more meaningful way of how and why the Transformers were split into both Autobots and Decepticons. And also, explain how and why they managed to land on Earth. Remember, this should be a serious, well written story that is made believable. In the cartoon it is the Decepticons that chase the Autobots into space before crashing into Earth. I think the following solution is a better one, more suited to a live-action film, and much clearer to the audience.

When they begin to explain this story, they should start off on Cybertron, and quickly explain how these robots once lived with one another, peacefully. They should explain how there once was 1 single race of Robot being, complete with their own language (it would be subtitled to the audience, only in the beginning of the film while on Cybertron). We see how they transform into spacecrafts and such machinery that is ADAPTABLE to their home planet of Cybertron.

My next question is: HOW the Tranformers decided to split and choose between good and evil, becoming both the Autobots and Decepticons, also bearing their famous symbols? I think the back-story and reasoning for this is that the Decepticons chose to abuse their purpose in life (Yes, all Transformers are alive and possess a Spark). The greedy Decepticons planned to consume all Energon (even stealing it from Autobots, leaving them to be powerless, resulting in death), depleting the planet of Cybertron of all of its resources. This was their only means of survival, and it was NOT a plan designed for the future for all Transformers to coexist with one another peacefully.

Energon was important to the Decepticons because it would retain their ?Spark? or ?robot soul? (which shouldn?t be explained, ala midichloreans), thus giving them the ultimate power to rule and live forever ? as long as no one would stand in their way. The Autobots thought of this as a threat to all life in the universe and felt that the Decepticons and their leader, Megatron, must be stopped. The Theme would ultimately be ?The Circle of Life: We are meant to do good in this universe with the time allotted to us, for both humans and robots alike, then we must pass on our knowledge to future generations. We are not meant to live forever, and neither are the Transformers. On a side note, a Transformers? lifespan would last for roughly 3 Million Years, compared to our 70-80 years of life.

So, Prime and his robot followers decided its best to stay on Cybertron and possibly come up with other forms of energy, not as powerful as Energon, but enough to survive. Soon enough the Decepticons go to war with the Autobots. It?s a spectacular showdown between both sides. The more powerful Decepticons decide to leave Cybertron (along with their last remaining sources of Energon) in a starship in search of a new planet to dominate. Leaving the Autobots mauled and their once beloved planet Cybertron in ruins, Optimus Prime and his fellow Autobots decide it?s in their best interest to Preserve life in the Entire Universe and stop the evil Decepticons at all costs. So a chase ensues in space between their 2 Super Starships.

The battle causes both ships to crash-land into Earth, through a mountain at the tip of an island (Hawaii). The crash was so deep, over time it caused the mountain to form into a volcano, which later became known as the (Volcano of Kilauea). Due to the impact, the Transformers suffer an electrical blowout, causing all transformers to automatically shut down. The ruined ships were submerged underwater beneath the volcano, along with the Transformers who were kept deactivated for almost 2 Million years.

Now, 2 Million years later, we?re in modern times on Earth, with humans inhabiting the planet. Back at the crash site, the volcano erupts causing the main controls of the ship to regain power. This releases a small robot which was designed to help ALL transformers ADAPT and BLEND to their surrounding environment when they are first ?Born? by means of ?Transforming?. So it reaches the surface above the water and into the city. It begins scouting for possible devices and machinery as well as the languages used on the planet for communication. This information is scanned and recorded which then is brought back to the ship for the sole purpose of blending and ADAPTING the Transformers to the new environment. Before reactivating the Transformers, the scouting robot then applies these new forms to both Autobots and Decepticons, reshaping their bodies. We see that the Autobots are reactivated first, with Optimus Prime, their leader, awaking form a long slumber, confused and trying to understand what has happened. Prime manages to restart Main Control and plug himself in, in order to gather all information up to the point of impact. When he realizes what has happened, and where he?s located in the universe, he and his fellow Autobots immediately search for any surviving Decepticons that may be harboring nearby. But to their surprise and confusion, the Decepticons have somehow vanished from their ruined Starship submerged under the water.

The Autobots then rise above Sea level in search of the Decepticons. And while doing so, they transform themselves in disguise to blend with this new planet which they now inhabit, while keeping a keen eye for the enemy?..

As far as some great scenes that should be implemented into the story:

Have the Transformers interact with the planet and some humans as well, such as Bumblebee/Spike. A great scene involving Optimus forced to transform and reveal himself to the humans in order to save them from certain doom. A final battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime which leads into the White House, or atop the capital building in Washington DC. I see many anti-war messages thrown into this film. The possibilities are endless. I want to see characters rise and fall. Both robot and human casualties. I want to feel the same sense of loss to some of the characters that we love, like we did in the first film (1984), but also feel that sense of heroism when the Autobots pull through in the end. Or do they?

Back to the different types of machines the Transformers should transform into? I think they should make sense, depending on scale and size. I think they should eliminate the Transformers ability to shrink (Megatron shrinking into a gun for Starscream to hold and shoot) which made lots of fans of the original annoyed; it was something we all had to accept. It?s pointless to try to explain in a Live Action film, so they should throw away that idea all together. Megatron should still keep his evil look that he had in the cartoon, but transform into a tank or some weapon of mass destruction, maybe some super Jet with cannons on each wing, so it?s Megatron and his 3 minions ? Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp. Soundwave should transform into some communication device that houses other smaller devices (ala Ravage, Rumble, Lazerbeak). Optimus and the rest of the Autobots should look as real as the vehicles are supposed to look in real life. Overall, the machines they transform into should make sense. No tape recorders? this is not the 80?s. This is the new millennium with an audience that expects SO much from film. They must be Generation 1 Transformers, but, take the best from Generation 1 and abandon the cheese that also came with it.

These are some of my thoughts. Let me know what you think. We definitely need the film makers to see what us fans want to see in this film. Dreamworks is responsible, and with the Spielberg name, it has great potential to be the next BIG FRANCHISE.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 11, 2004 3:49 AM

Excellent ideas, you should be on the damn board of hasbro directors.

The stuff about the robots blending in silently as normal vehicles gives it an edgy knightrider feel, of waiting,impending doom from the maniacal decepticons.  Thus the autobots therefore must reveal to help the human race.  Definitley a modern timezone not some pithy futuristic postapocalyptic rise of machines fro m outerspace but instead a worthy cause of good and bad fighting out amongst us mere mortals (like in films such as spiderman, hulk) it gives us the chanec to cheer them on help;in the film.  But assure a non Aliens vs predator cheese when approaching the duality of the alliance between human and fictional charater. The use of goood unknown actors is worthwhile in providing a not too overactivity and indulgenec in say such actors as Reeves or Pitt or someone of that ilk.  Instead the use of an actor worthy of that generation born.  Such as?????????....?
Also modern appliances can still be used as characters such as Astrotrain we still use trains , the jap bullet train resembels him.  Also soundwave could alternativley be a CD player or disk format type.  Megatron should saty true though as used in the military at first, so by pure destiny he is used as a weapon of destruction on both un and non concious levels until  the rise of the robots is came about in the film.  Sort of a Killdozer feel or Goliath from knightrider although not in looks.  Allys could be formed with Starcream already as the mad jet fighter would already be enlisted and used as a weapon of maybe the US army but then becomes aware-but agin in a way not similair to say matrix or terminator conciousness, as he is a already fully concious machine but is just waithing for the right time by Megatron to rise up (and against even)  Megatron Should be a cannon still, or even use Galvatron... I dont kknow the possibilities are endless, FOX, MIRAMAX, WHOEVEr DO NOT PLEASE DONT MESS THIS UP MAKE IT PURE, TRUE AND PROPER TO THE ORIGINAL WITHOUT THE FEEL OF ABEN STILLER REMAKE.  tAKE A LEAF OUT OF MANGAS GUNDAMN LIVE ACTION MAYBE?...SUGESTIONS? EMAIL ME AT KITANO.TAKESHI@MERSEYMAIL.COM

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 10, 2004 8:25 AM

where did you see this

RE: original tranformers ruled   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 16, 2004 1:13 PM

DUDE WERE DID U GET THOSE MOVIES TRYING TO FIND THEM MYSELF EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNW I WANT BOTH MOVIES

Whoa wait a minute..   reply

Posted by Nar (No Email) on October 27, 2004 2:33 PM

Vince DiCola????
Youre kidding right?
"You got the touchhh"
Oh no way man. Hahaha.
That stuff probably worked in the 80's.. but that style of music is too out of date, and seriously would only "campy'fy" the entire movie.
I agree with making sure to make the film based on the originals. And to stick with many of the original plots.
....but Vince DiCola movie score?

I cringe at the thought. He's a good musician nerd, and I dig what he tried to do with what limitations he had since he had to make the score from descriptive plans rather than actually watching the animation and recording real, time.
But alot of it was in my opinion.. kinda cheesy.
And you know why? Because his work on the Transfomers movie distracts me and makes me remember the Rocky Movies since he was also behind some score in a movie or two.

I personally think a more updated take on the original theme song clips from the original series, should be at hand. Some cool atmosphere so people can take this fictitious story more seriously as much as possible. Realism! I want realism!
Please please please dont make this movie for 5 year olds who cant tell the difference between reality and fiction.

I hope Hasbro doesnt put a stinky foot in this project because Damn..you can forget about it being cool.

You guys probably like the new plasticy toys with ultra duplicate repaints (horrible ones at that)..but Im sticking as close to the original, and I'll mention Diaclone for that matter.

Hasbro used to kick butt, but thats another story.

I hope this movie rocks.
=]

take care fellas.

Another thing   reply

Posted by Nar (No Email) on October 27, 2004 2:46 PM

Oh and by the way...

Fat chance we'll see Megatron as any sort of hand gun. Hasbro cant sell their toys if parent groups dont approve..so guess what the big goys are gonna do?

Thats right.. Tank Megatron. lol...

sucks... but oh well. Thank you moms and dads looking out for your well being. lol.

another problem..   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 4, 2004 7:52 AM

They can stop the transformers shrinking when they change,  but what are they going to do about optimus primes trailer dissapearing whenever he turns into a robot?  Leave it like the cartoon and it will look stupid, but i cant think of any other way to do it. Maybe they could make him powermaster optimus prime from the comics where the trailer formed his legs.

beetle CGI vs citroen C4 CGI   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 21, 2004 3:21 PM

i likeed that vid with the beetle, but compared to the tv commercial for the new citreon C4, its kinda pants!  you guys should see it, it looks fantastic, and it dances like MJ lol

and btw... its about bloody time they made a film of this

Transformers Armada Series   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 7, 2005 9:43 PM

I was so IMPRESSED!!!!

About Optimus Prime.....   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 7, 2005 10:18 PM

First time for a lady like me to write down in here,eh? "That's NO surprise!?" U might say.                    In what I've seen in the previews movies,Prime has no female HUMAN partner. Can you explain that to me????????

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 31, 2006 7:16 PM

where didu see that clip? i have been trying to find it