In time for the next big, gigantic Transformers movie to hit screens, sister-site WatchMojo.com has taken at look at the backstory and origins of the Transformers franchise. And it all comes back to the toys… Check out the new series on the Transformers Franchise:
Transformers - The Franchise
Transformers - The Transformer ‘Universe’
Here is the extended clip of a scene from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that was shown at the MTV awards this past weekend:
I don’t like Michael Bay, but God do I love Transformers:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from Bay Films/Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.
Yesterdays Superbowl broadcast had the usual onslaught of hilarious commercials and sprinkled throughout were some first looks at some eagerly anticipated summer movies. Check out some of the better trailers:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -
Land of the Lost -
Angels and Demons -
Star Trek -
This is bizarre… a behind the scenes look at the shooting of Transformers 2 and its pretty much Megan Fox getting pampered and Shia Labeouf standing around making fun of her. Regardless, Megan Fox is really hot:
Shia LeBoeuf’s mystery female passenger was revealed to be Adrian Grenier’s Australian girlfriend, Isabel Lucas.
The “Entourage” stud would not comment about how Lucas was feeling after being involved in an accident with LeBoeuf.
To read more about LeBoeuf’s legal and lady troubles click here.
Somehow it doesn’t seem like He-Man will be able to re-invent itself as a new and relevant story in the same way that the Batman franchise did… He-Man was never really that badass in the first place. Then again, I did love the cartoon as a kid and if they could make Transformers into a cool movie then I guess anything’s possible! Read on for some insights into the new movie from screenplay writer Justin Marks by way of SlashFilm.com:
“There are no invented new characters plopped into it-and if we and Mattel have our way there will never be. We’re talking about the He-Man mythology. So what we’re talking about doing, in the same way as Batman Begins, we’re going back to the original thing, let’s build it from the ground up again. How can we find our way in? How can we jump into Adam’s life at an interesting point where new audiences will respect him? It’s an Adam origin story, and it’s a Skeletor origin story. We want to see where both of them come from and how they got that way. If we don’t see the humanity and the truth in what Skeletor’s trying to do, then the story’s not compelling.”
“There’s some stuff going around…we should clear that up. There’s some rumor spreading that he’s a soldier in the Iraqi war. Where did they get that? This is an Eternian movie and it’s a story about an Eternian hero. We’re not going to Earth, here. We’re not going to the modern world. We’re not going to a strip mall in the Valley. [Laughs] By the way, I think there are really great things about the original Masters of the Universe.”
“He-Man is sword-and-sandals meets science fiction. If you avoid it and just try to make it sword and sandals, then it becomes a boring movie. If you just try to make it science fiction, it’s going to be really kitschy and weird, and it’s not going to be true to He-Man. You have to make it both. So we have to come up with specific ideas, grounded, that would spawn a world that was people carrying around swords, and yet, guys like Tri-Klops running around with his spinning visor and this sort of nano-technological way about him. What is the sorcery that can create stuff like that?
“When this movie comes out-and hopefully some day it will, because things look really stacked in its favor after Transformers-people will watch this movie and say, “I can’t believe it took this long for a He-Man movie to get to the screen,” because of how naturally the original material suits itself to a great, Lord of the Rings-scale-and yet high-tech-cool movie.”
“We got in the room and we basically spoke through not only one movie, but three movies, all the way down through our dreams for the titles for the second and third movies and which characters appeared when.”
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