TRANSFORMERS coming to theaters???

By Charley July 22, 2004 10:44 PM

Dreamworks has teamed with Paramount and toy company Hasbro to develop a live-action film based on "Transformers," according to Variety.com. ?"Transformers" was a popular animated TV series, comic book, and line of toys in the '80's that featured robots that transformed (clever, huh?) into everything from dinosaurs to trucks to giant mutant insects. ?Steven Spielberg is on board to produce.

The article says that producers are aiming for a summer 2006 release.

All creative development, merchandising, and marketing will be handled by the production team in close association with Hasbro and Takara, the Japanese company that manufactured the "Transformers" toys when they were popular in the 1980's.

No word on director or casting yet.

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Old news.. new info..   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 23, 2004 11:50 AM

Hey.. you kinda already reported that there would be a Transformers Movie back in June '03. Check it here if you don't believe me.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 23, 2004 3:13 PM

So?

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Posted by Charley (charley@dtheatre.com) on July 23, 2004 10:26 PM

The big news was the (semi)announced release date, and the fact that it actually has producers and the fact that one of them is Spielberg.  The other article didn't mention those things and, if it had, we at dTheatre would all be sitting on a crapload of syndication dough because we would be accurately predicting the future.

Plus, my post didn't feature a picture of a robot with an erection.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 26, 2004 10:01 AM

I like stories.

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Posted by Skullfire (hulacete@ubbi.com) on July 27, 2004 1:38 AM

A live-action movie about robots? Starring who, or what?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 27, 2004 10:16 AM

Or when? or how? or Why?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 14, 2004 8:44 AM

Robots from the series of course- Dyou know it, or should they reamake teddy ruxspin or duck tales,
If they made robots terminators pal, surely they can make transforming ones!