Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Extends Production Deal and is now Working on TF GI Joe Crossover Movie

"Divisive"?

I don't know.
It will depends on how good the movies will be. My expectations are low, but not rock bottom at least.

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Lest we forget that the Bayverse already had its own origin story with the AllSpark cube?

But as Optimus said, "we know not where it comes from..." So we can still have an origin for the cube as well.

And then ROTB had Scourge mention Primus by name.

Well has it been decided for certain that RoTB is a prequel to Bayverse? Other than Bee being a Camaro, nothing else ties them together, IIRC.

The certainty is that, as told to us by the director of ROTB:

- Paramount sees all films as occurring within the same universe
- Paramount does not care about establishing any coherent continuity among its films; directors/storytellers can do as they wish with their projects

Yeah, I guess with RoTB that was obvious. Caple Jr. is a mediocre director and "storyteller." Their writers weren't much better.

Paramount really should exert more control over this franchise, maybe then we would get higher quality films.

Some animated surprises I've enjoyed in my life:

TF:TM 1986 - ok, I was 10 when this came out. And despite all claims to the contrary, while perhaps there was at the start the idea "kill off all the old toys, so we can have kids buy new ones", there is actually a compelling story, and beautiful animation.

This video brings out some amazing points about the background producitonat Toei, and how the massive budget (for animation) played into this film




Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 - OK I actually didn't get to see this in theaters, btu I really wanted to. Its theatrical run was only a couple of weeks (wasn't supposed to be). It was just way ahead of its time.

Ghost in the Shell 1995 - nearly 30 years ago, an anime film being released theatrically was basically unheard of. This was a very lmited release, glad I got to experience it

Princess Mononoke 1999 - Long before Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli were household names in the west. I got to see this film in its limited theatrical run. Truly amazing

Titan A.E. 2000 - Billed as one of the BIggest box office Bombs of all time. One of Don Bluths last cell animated (but with CG elements) films. I think this one was again just way ahead of its time, would fare much better in todays market. Sucn an amazing film

TMNT 2007 & Astroboy 2009 - The only 2 films from the defunct studio IMAGI, and I love them both. Whats truly heartbreaking is what they had in production, but never came to fruition. Not sure why this studio failed, but they were amazing at what they did.

Spider-Man INto the Spider-Verse 2017 - Initially the look for the film I found to be off-putting, but the design became more tolerable as the amazing story was unfurled. The sequel seemed a bit "over stuffed" for me, and Ill see the 3rd one when it eventually comes out, but that first film is still just fantastic! Winning the Oscar for Best animated film that year in my mind kind of vindicated the fact that nobody paid attention to Batman"MotP 25 years earlier, as it certainly could have been a contender at the time.

I dont want to set my expectations too high (or at all really). and I seriously doubt this will happen. But with Disney and Pixar basically in the crapper, id love for this new film TF:One to really make a run at Best Animated film. Would once again (perhaps) in my eyes vindicate the fact that nobody (of influence) paid attention to TFTM back in 1986.

As with many leaks, these first looks are not optimal and either grainy or obscured. Below you will see an image of Transformers One Bumblebee and Optimus drink topper figures. They esch have a robot mode and alt mode version. This is their bodies after they get T Cogs.

We also have a shot of Bumblebee’s mouth. You can see it behind Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyler Henry.

I read somewhere that this movie felt more like a young child movie. Geared towards young children learning to be who they are. I got that vibe when I tried to watch the younger He-man on Netflix. I'm hoping this is better and not what I heard.

Optimus has a second face on his chest!

Cheetron wrote:I read somewhere that this movie felt more like a young child movie. Geared towards young children learning to be who they are. I got that vibe when I tried to watch the younger He-man on Netflix. I'm hoping this is better and not what I heard.

This film has is indeed for young kids. Its made by a Pixar guy

william-james88 wrote:

Cheetron wrote:I read somewhere that this movie felt more like a young child movie. Geared towards young children learning to be who they are. I got that vibe when I tried to watch the younger He-man on Netflix. I'm hoping this is better and not what I heard.

This film has is indeed for young kids. Its made by a Pixar guy

Seriously? Well, my excitement and expectations just nosedived...

Rodimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Cheetron wrote:I read somewhere that this movie felt more like a young child movie. Geared towards young children learning to be who they are. I got that vibe when I tried to watch the younger He-man on Netflix. I'm hoping this is better and not what I heard.

This film has is indeed for young kids. Its made by a Pixar guy

Seriously? Well, my excitement and expectations just nosedived...

Depends on which Pixar guy it is.

Toy Story 4, so yeah, definitely not the best resume, but one can hope

o.supreme wrote:Toy Story 4, so yeah, definitely not the best resume, but one can hope

My pipe dream Pixar director for a TF movie would be Brad Bird, who did The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, and one of the Mission Impossible movies.

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Toy Story 4, so yeah, definitely not the best resume, but one can hope

My pipe dream Pixar director for a TF movie would be Brad Bird, who did The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, and one of the Mission Impossible movies.

Brad Bird would be amazing.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Toy Story 4, so yeah, definitely not the best resume, but one can hope

My pipe dream Pixar director for a TF movie would be Brad Bird, who did The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, and one of the Mission Impossible movies.

Brad Bird would be amazing.

Ditto.

DeathReviews wrote:Optimus has a second face on his chest!

Like he's had many times before! (If you squint.)

Chris Hemsworth is eager for you to see the first trailer for the Transformers One film. He plays Orion Pax and he shared a video with Brian Tyler Henry, who plays D16/Megatron, promoting the upcoming trailer. It is available on his Twitter page:

https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth/stat ... 4323421410

Okay, so, we're getting the first trailer for the movie this Thursday... in space (whatever that means).

Space huh?

The marketing sure if something different this time, not sure if it's a good or bad thing for the marketing to be more bold here than whatever was up with Rise of the Beasts.

Below is the youtube video to the presentation from Paramount and Hasbro regarding Transformers One. The trailer is said to be revealed from Space. It starts at 9 AM EST

Enjoy!

Looks like it's on one of those high altitude balloons and will actually start at 10am when it reaches space (or the edge of it as is often the case)

EDIT: I liked the trailer, looks like it's going to be fun, very kid friendly. Does feel a lot more like a prequel to Earthspark or Cyberverse than the movies. The majority of the live chat seemed to really hate it though. Hopefully we get a better quality trailer immediately because it was not the greatest idea to show it on a transparent "screen".

Emerje

My initial thoughts, i liked it as well. It’s a different vision or take of how these characters started out on Cybertron while keeping to the roots of their initial existence. Yes, it looks to be more kid friendly, it does bring in some good humor as they development their transforming powers and then we see how they will eventually use them in battle.
To what @Emerje mentioned, I to look forward to a better quality trailer.


SGM

Trailers are up on YouTube!

HOLY SHIT I cannot overstate how excited I am for this. The trailer was so much more than I thought we were going to get, I mean the sheer scale of the movie seems astounding. The humor looks like it gels well for the setting, and the VAs all sound great. I’m finding it hard to think of any negatives right now, I’m so giddy.

I liked the animation and the voices, it seems like it'll be fun

Well, I'm probably going to skip this one. I love the designs, and I'm having the toys when they come out, but the movie it's self feels like a pixar movie to me. Maybe it's just the old man in me talking. I really wanted to like it but I ain't feeling it.

I hope it does well to be honest. I still want to like it so maybe as more info and trailers come out I'll get more hyped. This is just my first impression.

Looks fun! I'm excited for the film. I really like the look of it, the design and landscapes look amazing. But I think what I'm even more excited for is which if any other legacy characters appear, be it small roles or even just background cameos. That one shot of Airachnid seems to imply that we could finally be getting an updated Airachnid toy, which would be fantastic! And I'd love to see how they do other familiar characters in this aesthetic.

This actually looks quite fine, not an amazing movie for my personal tastes but I'm just some guy who's no longer part of the intended audience, which is kids, and kids tastes change and are different from when most of adults were kids, some of the adults in my life didn't care about certain kids films/shows that plenty from my generation have grown up to adore.

It's just amazing to actually get a Transformers film that seems like it's actually targeted for it's intended audience, the Bay films while I'm somewhat tolerant on (used to straight up like), I still never thought they were even remotely appropriate for children to watch, or even for plenty in the PG-13 range.

Only thing I really don't like is Megatron's voice but I'm willing to give it a chance regardless, Chris Hemsworth's Optimus/Orion sounds professional at the least, he's one I'm more on board for in my first impressions.

Really like the quality of the animation style though, the lighting especially which is an underrated part of 3D movies, like some of those shots of Bee's Battle Mask for example, so on that front I'm already stoked for a movie that looks good! It's crazy that the visuals in this first trailer here blow me away in comparison to Rise of the Beast's first trailer which was...rough in the CGI side of things.

Edit: Also trailers aren't the actual full movies in the end, any of you remember Spider-Verse or Puss In Boot's first trailers? They weren't that amazing either, so I'm reserving final judgement until the reviews come in.

See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren't defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

What does the ultimate judge think? I had heard rumors the movie is being done by some Pixar alumni people. And... you can REALLY tell that in the trailer. It's full of the exact same kind of goofy humor you would expect to see in a trailer for Inside Out, or Wreck-it-Ralph, Toy Story, or any other movie like that which you care to name. I'm not sure that sets particularly well with Transformers in general.

Good impressions? It's nice to see a transformers movie that ISN'T all about humans. If they can stop themselves from trying to inject any political messages into it, then it should be fine. The renderings are clean and everything looks smooth. A little TOO smooth in fact. There are a lot more rounded edges and contours on every character than I'm used to seeing with Transformers.

And if you want to pre-order the inevitable merchandise? Then the Optimus Prime figure is already up for pre-order on BigBadToyStore.com!

Big day for Transformers One News. While the trailer was first presented from space, we now have it on youtube as a regular trailer for you to view. What do you think of the designs? Of Badassitron? Of the voices? Let us know!

DeathReviews wrote:What does the ultimate judge think? I had heard rumors the movie is being done by some Pixar alumni people. And... you can REALLY tell that in the trailer. It's full of the exact same kind of goofy humor you would expect to see in a trailer for Inside Out, or Wreck-it-Ralph, Toy Story, or any other movie like that which you care to name. I'm not sure that sets particularly well with Transformers in general.

Wreck-It Ralph wasn't Pixar.

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren't defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

As much as I like this trailer, and as much as I (used to) enjoy Bumblebee and (thankfully still enjoy) Rise of the Beasts, I pray for the day when I stop seeing these comments. I'm just tired on them.

It's decent. I think the trailer showed too much humor and not enough serious moments (even younger-geared films need those). And the music needed something more than "be awed" used constantly.

Well, that was pretty cool actually! Not what I was expecting, I got quite a James Gunn GotG vibe out of it with Hemsworth putting a bit of late-MCU Thor into Optimus. Megs' voice will take a little longer to get used to, but I suspect what we've seen so far as D-16 will be quite different from how he eventually sounds as Megatron. (And that shot early on of Megs and the red-hot Decepticon brand? That was cool.)

A lot of the animation & design looks gorgeous, hitting somewhere between Evergreen and the Bumblebee movie for me. Some of the character animation looked maybe a little lower-budget than you might expect? Cybertron looks great though, both underground and topside, and it looks like it's packing so many little nods to bits of TF lore from all over the past 40 years that it's going to demand a close watch on home release.

In short, this is looking like a lot more fun than I was expecting!

Looking good so far. The graphics are fantastic, and the characters were a lot of fun to watch. The transformation scene was my favorite part for sure.

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren't defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

That bumblebee killcount though...

Amen.

I literally sat here and watched this with my mouth hanging open. The trailer is beautiful, well polished animation. The interactions are amazing. All of my nurses and MAs also watched the trailer. None of them are even fans of Transformers, but they ALL plan on seeing this movie now.

That's exactly what a trailer is supposed to do. Well done.

So based on the background song, this is set back when Cybertronian tech ran on Windows 95? My, it IS the primitive past!

Beyond Airachnid's cameo, the whole aesthetic strikes me as 'Prime with a bigger budget' more than any other single past CG TF rendering, especially the Vehicons, and it works surprisingly well. I could see this getting all the attention that Rise of the Beasts didn't last summer.

zko wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren't defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

That bumblebee killcount though...

Seconded. Are you saying accidental homicide is OK Sabr? It's all comic relief until someone unintentionally enters the nuclear codes...

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren't defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

As much as I like this trailer, and as much as I (used to) enjoy Bumblebee and (thankfully still enjoy) Rise of the Beasts, I pray for the day when I stop seeing these comments. I'm just tired on them.

Agreed, Transformers (2007) was almost 20 years ago. It's time to let things go. There is no good that can come from dredging up the past. Michael Bay certainly doesn't care so there's no need for people to cling to that.

Anyway, onto the trailer itself. It honestly looks like a fun little movie. While I probably will be waiting till a home media release, I'll still be watching it.

Bumblevivisector wrote:Seconded. Are you saying accidental homicide is OK Sabr? It's all comic relief until someone unintentionally enters the nuclear codes...

There's a difference between an accident and a bunch of gun-toting maniacs who relish and revel in their obsessive desire to main, mutilate, and massacre the first things that look at them funny (lookin' at you, Crosshairs and Hound).

ZeroWolf wrote:Agreed, Transformers (2007) was almost 20 years ago.

Ah, but TLK was only a mere seven years ago.

Well it has to be better than rise of the dullest film to feature a science museum (yes I know WW84 is a worse movie but probably still less dull than rise of the beasts, with Eternals being the best of the three).
Megatrons voice is pretty jarring but some of the designs look good. I can take it or leave it though, not something I'm too fussed about seeing or not seeing

Was pretty cool to see Skywarrp in the trailer and what I think Sentinel Prime looking a lot like Deathsaurus.

I dont know......I just dont know... I mean the animation looks good and fluid. I guess I'm just not "wired" into thinking that Mechanical organisms can grow and mature physically. I mean originally Orion Pax body was literally destroyed and he was ReBuilt into Optimus Prime. Call it hoaky, or whatever; but the idea of bots looking "young" and then maturing is just so foreign to my concepts of Transformers. Sure we saw little kiddies on Lithone, but that was a different race of Robots.

I mean I get that Optimus wasn't always the stalwart, confident leader we see in the OG series. each character should be able to grow in a sense mentally, but to have them look "youthful" just doesn't make sense, unless again, their bodies are literally going to be broken, and rebuilt into something closer to what we know. I mean Elita is already "Elita" (not Aeiral), and Megatron was "Born"(built) as is. (Physically, not mentally).

Yeah I know this isn't OG Transformers, and it certainly shows. I still plan on seeing it and giving it a chance, but man, It definitely didn't overwhelm me with positivity, lets just put it that way.

Also, can we officially STOP with inserting classical Rock songs in trailers? It was cool in Guardians of the Galaxy, and its sequels, and dozens of other film trailers that have done it in the past 10 years. But it can stop now. I mean I know Transformers is an original product of the 80's, but "Start Me Up" even predates it.

My nostalgia bias probably would have given a pass to any song from the TF:TM soundtrack, even though this film hasn't earned it yet (maybe they'll play "The Touch", or a rendition of the OF TF theme at the end of the film), but yeah, Rolling Stones and TF doesn't mesh well here.

Looks fun, but there's one thing I just can't get over: KID MEGATRON!

I am pleasantly surprised. I'm definitely planning on seeing this, looks like a lot of fun.

Is it supposed to be a prequel to the live action films? Felt like the vibe was more toward Prime and the WFC games.

o.supreme wrote:I dont know......I just dont know... I mean the animation looks good and fluid. I guess I'm just not "wired" into thinking that Mechanical organisms can grow and mature physically. I mean originally Orion Pax body was literally destroyed and he was ReBuilt into Optimus Prime. Call it hoaky, or whatever; but the idea of bots looking "young" and then maturing is just so foreign to my concepts of Transformers. Sure we saw little kiddies on Lithone, but that was a different race of Robots.

Pretend those last two are in reverse order.

Also,

What a mess. I guess I'll be sittnig this one out, just like the Bay movies. Origin story? G1 seasons 2 and 3 (the five faces of darkness part 4 in particular) are being completely disregarded. I'd take that any day over what is seen in the trailer. The original story is much darker with much more death. The trailer shows the autobots and decepticons learning to transform together? No. The autobots used that tactic to win their civil war against the decepticons after cybertrons 'golden age.'

Count me out.

Hot Rod was "matured" by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime, not physical growth. (similar to Optimus although his Pax body was mortally wounded).

The story of A3 "maturation" is not exactly known, but I seriously doubt it was physical growth.

o.supreme wrote:Hot Rod was "matured" by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime, not physical growth. (similar to Optimus although his Pax body was mortally wounded).

The story of A3 "maturation" is not exactly known, but I seriously doubt it was physical growth.

There's also Kup. A flashback in "Chaos" showed a younger version of him.

Perceptor1996 wrote:Was pretty cool to see Skywarrp in the trailer and what I think Sentinel Prime looking a lot like Deathsaurus.

Looks to me like Sentinel is actually being held by something else. His legs appear bound.

blackeyedprime wrote:Well it has to be better than rise of the dullest film to feature a science museum (yes I know WW84 is a worse movie but probably still less dull than rise of the beasts, with Eternals being the best of the three).

Looks like it'll be a lot more fun that RoTB was. This might have a well-paced and interesting story in the hands of a good director. And I thought WW84 was pretty fun, way above RoTB.

Megatrons voice is pretty jarring but some of the designs look good. I can take it or leave it though, not something I'm too fussed about seeing or not seeing

Yeah that was the only thing really out of place for me as well. I'm looking forward to finding out why it changes eventually.