Transformers live action film in the pipeline

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*drool* *slaver*

I don't even NEED to see this to know it will rock.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

It sounds cool, but I dunno how it will work!

and I say this now:

IT MUST BE GENERATION ONE!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder, does "live action" = shitty Scooby Doo-style CGI?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

you got the *TOUCH* !!

― piscesboy, Monday, 16 June 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

it can only be CGI, coz dressing up Tom Cruise as Optimus Prime would be the pits.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.wkyc.com/assetpool//images/0331941134_optimus1.jpg
"It's obvious that I should play myself in this film."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

Transformers live action film in the poopchute

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

Jel is OTM. And actually, it must be old-skool and set on Earth in the Ark and none of that Rodimus Prime bollocks.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

Hold up, wasn't the first one live action? It looked it to me.

(Maybe rather than generation One, they could do the origin story - a sort of Transformers Babies: staring Optimus Pram).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

My dad should make the costumes; I was a robot for Halloween once and he made a great costume out of a cardboard box and silver paint.

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

GOD

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SUGGEST

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EXACTLY

THIS

JUST

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WITHOUT

EVEN

INVESTIGATING

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INTERNET

FIRST

WHAT

THE

HELL

GOING

ON??

(sorry, but really...fucking hell!)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

the advantage of live action here being its a lot easier to model and animate machines and have them interact with real objects. see Hammerstein in Judge Dredd, and that was EIGHT years ago (although the CGI walker robots in Matrix Reloaded were not actually anymore impressive really) so you can believe this would totally work.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

I think it should be an analysis of the psyche of Starscream, really deep and moving. Or a love story about Arcee and Springer.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

first problem that springs up: will they be proportionately the same size as the items they transform into or not? while logic dictated this MUST be the case, its just gonna look silly if Megatron really was the size of a Walther gun as a robot. i would suggest to retain credibility they're going to have to really try and justify the whole 'shrinking' process scientifically when the bots transform.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

damn i wish i could find that link I posted last year, with the Volkswagen transformer mpeg.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.astrotrain.com/

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

I hope they hire whoever writes all the awesome Transformers slash to write this.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

Here it is.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

never mind, thats some italian porno.....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

i've got it on my hd if anyone wants to post it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 16 June 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

No Scatman Crothers = No Transformers

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 16 June 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

Federicon:

http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds4255.html

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

so pathetic

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

They should remake War Games with modern CGI first. Y'know. With Matthew Broderick

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

Transformers live action? Didn't the Autobots and Decepticons tend to fight in rocky desert terrain? I think I remember, like, one or two people in the series. Maybe my memory is faulty.

But, a Voltron live action movie would make a lot more sense. And it would be a lot more cool. Give it the kind of effects the latest Star Wars movies have and it would be awesome. No Jar Jar Binx!

― Scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, alot of cartoons have desert backgrounds, as it's kinda expensive to keep changing the backgrounds.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

jel, what I meant was that there aren't many real live people in deserts, so a Transformers movie would basically be just straight computer graphics animation, not "live action"Unless, they plop them in the middle of a city for some reason and give real live human beings roles in the movie-- it would be cool to see Optimus Prime grabbing an armful of people and leaping to safety from an incoming missile attack. Or seeing Optimus turn into his truck form and the door opening up with the words, "Hop in, Mr. President." Hee, hee, I want to write this script.

― scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

It would be live action if, per my above suggestion, the Transformers were played by men wearing cardboard boxes spraypainted silver (scaredy, you can do the script if I can do the costumes).

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

I think that's what it'll be like! Get writing sir!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

they really should think about including:

- huge battle on Cybertron rivalling LOTR, Clone Wars and Matrix Reloaded for epic scale and dazzling effects.
- some kind of Transformer/dinosaur interaction (maybe when The Ark crashes on Earth some dinosaurs get trapped and preserved in radioactive debris?)
- ridiculous 15 minute explanation by Charlize Theron (top scientist) on how come the robots can shrink to the size of cars, guns etc.
- X-Men style in-jokes
- the term 'puny earthlings'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

no way should it be 'men in costumes' tho, that would just look an infinite number of times more stupid and less 'real' than CGI (refer to Judge Dredd's Hammerstein, Matrix Reloaded walkers and the new Terminator film...The Hulk looks absurd but fun and its still impressive and useful as a pointer to how they can have large humanoid forms interacting with the environment)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Sideswipe: "what? are you some kind of go-bot?"

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

can't find other threads...

Hugo Weaving voicing Megatron?

― blueski, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

here you go

― kv_nol, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Title of this thread is kind of hilarious post Grady's robots in dis guys thread.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

If by "in the pipeline" you mean "wedged up my crack" I agree.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Live action in the pipeline.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5697/playfulduokn7.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus, this thread is almost 4 years old !

― Ste, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i would never have clicked on this thread but i noticed matt dc started it so i just had to come here and POINT AND LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH

and at you too stevem

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Quiet you. I hear Barbie's got a new hat out.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahaha

― latebloomer, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/bumblebee/images/poster_2x.jpg

i still find it hard to believe anyone likes this bullshit series

― omar little, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link

Recently struck when nardwuar interviewed a young rapper who claimed the first live action movie was a big inspiration. Otherwise chill dude

― ya done (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link

Bullshit is really in rn. People love it.

― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link

Is this a revive to clown matt dc

― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Bumblebee ends with Michael Bay approaching Optimus Prime about a movie franchise and Prime running him over

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

^^Bumblebee somehow ended up Rockin' despite <SPOILER> not ending like that.

― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 December 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link

I enjoyed it as well. more family friendly, so there are some cringeworthy moments (like the stepdad), but as a sendup of Iron Giant with Short Circuit moments in it, it works well.

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I think I was the only person at the screening who didn't bring children.

― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 December 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link

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