Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys
Michael Bay in disguise.
Michael Bay
went through the wringer with the fanboys on
Transformers.
He addressed every concern -- early designs, scripts, remaining faithful to the
source material -- and delivered a movie that won over most audiences, grossing
nearly $320 million in America alone. But with Transformers 2 in
development, Bay isn't taking any more lip service.
"One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more," said Bay. "We're going to leak a lot of false information all over the place. I now know their game. They're going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We've got scripts and treatments written up that we're going to leak. No one's going to know."
Scoopers who currently think they're sitting on a hot one, here's a head's up. "There's one out that's fake right now. There are going to be many others."
In the days leading up to the writer's strike, Bay was in the trenches working on the sequel script. "Every day now. I'm excited about it. We've got Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci], the original writers, and we've got Ehren Kruger (Blood and Chocolate, The Ring), who's a new writer coming in. We have three very good writers."
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 on Nov 10 2007 12:27 AM or its fake, someone has leaked the actual and they're covering they're *** (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 12:30 AM Who cares! hurry and finish making the movie...give the robots more screen time!, and kill off Shia! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 01:06 AM Shia is awesome, shut up! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 02:00 AM Back up the damn camera and hold it still. Cut the lame jokes. Get a real plot. Hire some good- Screw it. It's beyond saving. (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 04:16 AM Megan Fox naked. That is all. (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 05:07 AM In reply to this comment (#1266524) Agreed (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 05:45 AM Give the actual Transformers center stage this time. Bring back Jazz. Bring in Wheeljack. Give the Decepticons some screen time, etc, etc. And a word to the wise: if human weapons are effective against the Decepticons, then maybe the Autobots' weapons should be also be effective against them. Just a thought. (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 06:24 AM megan fox nude seen with galvatron. mmmmmm... yea..... (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 06:42 AM More explosions. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 06:47 AM Megan Fox nude seen with galvatron? LOL!!! -- and Shea and Optimus Prime havin' a heartbreak? We already got the script -- the tag line could be "A violent love story between a woman and machine". Shea is pissed 'coz the highschool sweetheart he's supposed to bang is banging everyone else but Shea. So he calls his old friend -- the terminator. Now the terminator and human are on the one side and transformers on the other. To make the matter worse, Megatron is resurrected. He wants to destroy both of them. LOL. Final battle between the MAN and the MACHINE. Now Imagine that... And of course it's RATED R. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 07:55 AM bring in the constructicons and dinobots, and have unicron appear in the 3rd!!! DO IT NOW!! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 07:57 AM "One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more," said Bay. "We're going to leak a lot of false information all over the place. I now know their game. They're going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We've got scripts and treatments written up that we're going to leak. No one's going to know." Wow...Bay seems like such a prick. (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 08:21 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) Perfectly said. My thoughts exactly. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 08:54 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) Hire a real director. Someone who doesn't equate spastically jerking the camera around with technique. Relegate Bay to stunt coordinator, where he can spend his time doing what he does best - thinking of ways to blow **** up. Find a plot that's actually about, you know, the Transformers. Cut out all the crap with pointless hackers and government coverups and all that standard Bay junk. Gigantic robots hellbent on kicking the **** out of each other is cool. Give us that. Give us exactly that. And film them in a way that we can actually tell what they're doing. (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 09:38 AM I know everyone here hates Michael Bay, great, we here from you every time his name comes up. I enjoyed Transformers, it was everything I expected it to be. I was a bit wary of all the hype surrounding Shia, but in the end I thought he was perfect. Was the movie perfect? No, but it was fun. I would love to see the Constructicons and Dinobots in the sequel, that would be fun too. I don't quite see how Dinobots could realistically be worked into the story, but maybe Grimlock alone could somehow be worked in. Maybe if he had reached the planet after the energon cube arrived hundreds of millions of years ago and took the t-rex form and was just recently discovered. I'm sure they'll do something like that. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 09:52 AM Its a movie about giant robots from outer space. Don't expect too much...Bay is a perfect match for this project (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:04 AM transformers 2 (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:06 AM There are going to be several fake scripts leaked to slip up fanboys? Here's betting that each of them is better than the official shooting script. I hear that it was Bay's idea to have Bumblebee take a leak on John Turturro. Figures that such an immature scene would be the brainchild of a man-boy like Bay. Whatever. F*** Transformers. F*** Shia "I got the part because I'm Steven Spielberg's friend" Lebouf. F*** that soul-dead streetwalker looking floozy Megan Fox. And, especially, f*** all the fanboys who whined about the film all the way up until its release, but went to see it on opening day any Goddamn way. You people are the worst of all. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:20 AM rustique writes: on Nov 10 2007 07:55 AM bring in the constructicons and dinobots, and have unicron appear in the 3rd!!! DO IT NOW!! Totally agree They sould have the dinobots crash land in a natrual history museum in the dinosaur exhibit .....done dinobots taken care of.....I thought Michael Bay did a great job Transformers ruled good acting realistic looking action and of course the real Optimus Prime...Michael Cullen just made it awesome all you haters keep hating this is going to be an awesome franchise (Reply to this) |
 on Nov 10 2007 10:46 AM i pray to God he takes out that stupid bimbo and her annoying sidekick. good lord they were stupid an unneeded. i like shia... on his DISNEY SHOW. he can't play that character in every other film he's in! i really hope he's not that way in the new indy flick! (Reply to this) |
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