Transformers 2 Moving Ahead Ehren Kruger joins the writing team
Last week, we told you that Transformers 2 – the sequel to In The Valley Of Elah – is moving ahead at 100 miles per hour. It has a release date – June 26, 2009. It has a director, in the returning Michael Bay.
And today it was announced that it has a new writer. Ehren Kruger, who penned Scream 3, Reindeer Games and The Skeleton Key, has managed to persuade Paramount bosses to ignore his CV and bring him on co-writing duties with Transformers old hands, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.
OK, we’re being slightly facetious, and Kruger did write the excellent Arlington Road, the remake of The Ring and, umm, last year’s werewolf classic, Blood And Chocolate, but it’s been a while since he bagged a gig this big.
But the mystery soon resolves itself. The Hollywood Reporter reports, as it’s wont to do, that Kruger has been brought on because Kurtzman and Orci – Bay’s go-to guys for scripts that make you go boom – will be too busy, what with writing JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, producing Eagle Eye, and working with Kruger on a serial killer thriller named Nightlife.
So the trio have previous, and reading between the lines, it seems likely that Kurtzman and Orci were instrumental in hiring Kruger, someone they felt comfortable with. However, Kruger had to first convince Bay and Hasbro president, Brian Goldner, that he knew enough about the Transformers mythology before he got the job. Presumably this involved more than pointing at Optimus Prime and mumbling, ‘isn’t that the big truck guy?’ And, somewhere in Empire’s childish mind, we like to think that it involved three grown men playing with toys for a good hour or two. ‘Vroom’ noises optional.
Anyway, THR also reports that Transformers 2 will see Shia The Beef reprise his role as Sam Witwicky, while Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto will reprise their roles as producers, while some newcomer called Steven Spielberg will gain vital experience of executive producing. Optimus Prime is slated to return, but is haggling over the size of his trailer – luckily, that can be connected to him, so they should be ready to roll soon.
No plot details yet, but if anyone from the production is reading, and has made it this far, then we have just one word for you: Dinobots!
he thing that was great about transformers was the variety of robots and what they transformed into if the dinobots are coming into it then they should be dinosaurs not cars and megatron should have been a handcannon. ... Read More
Does this mean that Transformers will be released on blu-ray? Michael Bay is quoted as saying that he wouldn't make a sequel unless it was... ... Read More
Whatever happens I hope The new writer doesn't mess up the new movie. It seems to me he might have more control over the project seen as Orci and Kurtzman are doing other projects. ... Read More
I agrre with most of the other posters - (not sheets you stick on your bedroom wall - the people who posted the oppinions on this thread)!
Dinobots wouldn't really work for me because of the whole realistic thing - I know I said realistic in reference to a movie about transforming alien robots!!! Anyway, Ultra Magnus, yeah very cool, Hot Rod, and the constructacons would be cool, but then we'd have to have a Autobot combiner . . I think this will be another great movie, but will it follow the U... Read More
Aerialbots, Stunticons, Protectabots, Combaticons - all are realistic earth vehicles, easy to put on big screen, small robots fighting who link up to become one bad ass huge robot who then faces up to his opposite number and they then proceed to beat the living energon out of each other. That would be amazing. Possible budget issues though. Dinobots bad idea, they cant fit in on earth. Ultra Magnus is a great shout, how about Sixshot... Also if Megs is dead, Galvatron is a shoe in. And Prime wil... Read More
I'm personally not all that keen to see dinobots on the big screen. I just have this huge niggle that they were only really cool because we were kids, and that they'd be a bit silly realised in the... er.. metal? I'm more for Soundwave and shockwave since they were pretty much a duo and Soundwave was Megatron's right hand robot.
and Shool... as far as utterly pointless responses go, yours was almost impressive. One must wonder how little life you must have that you can deem it neccecary to ma... Read More
