Don’t worry, it isn’t one of the rubbish cross-over movies that should never be touched. It is the fact that 20th Century Fox have decided to premier “Live Free Or Die Hard”, the latest Die Hard film, on 29th June, 5 days before the opening of the Transformers movie.

Don Murphy has announced that Dreamwaves is trying to secure a budget in the region of $125 million for the new Transformers Movie.  He has also given fans a unique opportunity to create;

Their War. Our world.

Your Words.

Webmasters The voting phase for the TRANSFORMERS – MAKE PRIME SPEAK CONTEST has begun!

Thousands of fans submitted their chance to have Optimus Prime speak their line of dialogue in the upcoming TRANSFORMERS movie, in theatres 7.4.7.

The TOP 100 Submissions are now posted at TransformersMovie.com.

The Voting Phase ends on OCTOBER 23rd.

The winning TOP 10 entries will be announced by November 9th.

During the Voting Phase of the contest, it is one vote per person, per email address used during the submission phase.

Webmasters must have submitted a line in order to have your vote count during this phase.

All users are encouraged to check out the finalists, but again � the only votes that will count are from those who submitted a line to the contest.

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Don Murphy has just posted the following on his message boards

John Rogers has been announced as the man to write the script for the upcoming Live-Action Movie. Mr Rogers has recently adapted another comic for the big screen, with last summers Catwomen. Now don’t panic, because the script is being based on a story by DeSanto (the guy who basically made X-Men 1 & 2 really good), and will always have Steven Spielberg as Executive Producer.

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.