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| 12 July 2005 | Delays On Transformers' Production Line
But it's all still pretty much on track(s) |
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There's been a few worried geeks online over the past couple of weeks. No, not your average conspiracy theorists, but movie geeks. Movie geeks of a certain age – that generation that grew up with Transformers. Because no sooner had it been announced that their second favourite toy franchise (after Star Wars figures, of course) was about to get a live action movie of its very own – to be directed by, for once, the perfect choice of Michael Bay – than pesky rumours started to creep in, that maybe it wasn't going ahead after all.
Well, fear not. Not much, anyway. The good news to come out of the US press junket for Bay's The Island, is a clearing of the air in regards to the order of events.
See, Transformers is being written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Bay is tipped to direct, with Steven Spielberg as executive producer. Any diehard TV junkie will tell you that Kurtzman and Orci also wrote a great deal of Alias for the show's creator, JJ Abrams – who's now directing Mission: Impossible 3. And guess who wrote that script? Correct. So their duty is first and foremost to go to Rome and oversee the fine-tuning of that project.
Which of course means a delay to Transformers, you see? But it's not sounding like the family sci-fi adventure is fading beyond the horizon. In fact, they gave a good outline as to what the essentials of the story are going to be. "We sat down with Steven Spielberg, and we said that the action scenes in this movie are a given, but he said that that it's the story of a boy and his car and that he wants to bring back the old Amblin movies. It's Back To The Future …great! We're in!"
And so are we, as long as it doesn't involve the most annoying character in the cartoon series – Bumblebee (the yellow Volkswagon bug who, if you remember the character sheets on the back of the toys had a 10 rating of 'courage' but was shit in every other respect, making him and his owner the emotional core of every episode, dammit). We were delighted not to hear the B word used in the current script's lineup: ""The staple characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Jazz… there's going to be ten Transformers in that movie, and if that's not enough, you can go see 2, 3, 4 or 5."
Ahhh, the modern age of making blockbusters raises the prospect of sequels before we've even begun. Orci added "The meat and potatoes are going to be in there, we're just missing the premise for the sequels." One at a time, lads, one at a time…
Bay himself is still yet to sign on the dotted line, and wouldn't be held to any promises, but did confirm that designing for the project was already underway.
So you see? It's still looking good. There's got to be an order to these things. Just keep watching the ad that seems to have started it all and believe like the central character in an 80's Spielberg movie… |
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