Their War. Our World. The new official Transformers movie website is now online from Paramount/Dreamworks. It features some flash animation showing the artistic style of the robots and a timer, counting down to the teaser trailer.

Quote from Don Murphy off his message boards

Michael Bay�s deal is still not closed despite what you might think, but I�d make it 95% likely. Michael has a LINE producer partner (the guy responsible for making the film come in on time and on budget) named Ian Bryce- we have lunch hopefully on Tuesday when I will start to push for things like voice actors. Was supposed to be this week but his Father in law passed on. The script continues to be worked on�.The website is gonna be up in just over a month� COMICON will have a big presence for the film- I�ll be there unless I am in London with COOL BREEZE with Michael Douglas so come say howdy�Tomorrow I have lunch with George Lazenby..should be weird, will let you know why once I can�.

Thanks for listening, thanks for caring about Susan and I think this will be a big week for Transformers!!!

Best,

Don

IGN FilmForce caught up with Steven Spielberg on the set of War of the Worlds to talk about Indy 4 but managed to get a quick word from him about The Transformers movie out next year. This is what he had to say

“It’s happening. We’ll announce the director in three weeks, three or four weeks�”

So as you can see, it is happening. The full news report on IGN can be seen here.

Simon Furman seems to bee officially in on The Live Action TF Movie  (or TLAFTM as I will now refer to it) after a successful meeting between producers Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Simon Furman.  Details (although a bit scant) can be found at this post on the official Don Murphy forums.  Care should be taken though.. as with most forums of this kind, some of the replies have absolutely nothing to do with Mr Murphy’s announcement.

Latino Review has posted some new pictures of the Transformers movie set. Some seem very interesting and again could provide spoilers for the film. They can be seen here.

MTV.com have interviews Tyrese Gibson, who has revealed that he is playing a character called Epps in The Transformers movie. Here is a short extract from the article

The full article can be read here.

Don Murphy has posted some more info on the movie, backing up some of what Michael Bay said yesterday, on his message boards.

Don Murphy has posted on his site that he has received the first draft from John Rogers. The film can now move forward and hopefully make the Summer 2006 deadline set by Hasbro.

You can read Don Murphy’s post here.

Don Murphy has answered 5 fan questions, all about who will appear in the movie. Here’s a summary of what was answered

1. Bludgeon is NOT in it.

5. Soundwave WILL have minions.

Don also added a few other things to expect from the movie

What no one is REALLY getting is that this film is NOT entirely what you are expecting.

We are NOT doing CGI.

We ARE doing a real live action film with CGI in it.

BUT it is designed to make $400 million which means people will groove on it who have never heard of TF before and think that you guys are cool for liking TF.

So start thinking THAT way and you will really be pleased.

The entire thread can be seen here.