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In the best news of 2008 (so far), director Michael Bay has confirmed that Jazz, the Autobot who was ripped in half by Megatron, is dead and is staying dead. It had been rumoured that jazz as returning after a website had a reported McCrary being in talks about the sequel.
In a message on his forums, Michael confirmed that the Autobot is not coming back and that many new unique and cool robots are on their way.
No Jazz is dead. We have way more cool robots to come.
Bay
Michael Bay has posted on his official message boards about the Transformers Movie teaser trailer coming out later this month.
It has been awhile since I’ve posted. Finished shooting end of Sept., on budget, just came under $300,000. I beat Pearl by a $100,000. I had a great time making this movie, the cast and crew were amazing.
Today I just finished the new teaser for Christmas and I think it’s AWESOME! The trailer mixing Guru who does all the big summer movies turned to me and said with a little more ump – it was “fucking awesome”.
I think some of my films have had good teasers but this one is just makes a statement. It’s hard edged to show we are not a silly “toy” movie. We show just hints of robots – and almost none of our epic shots are in this teaser, but the movie just looks big. I had a room full of 20 Tranformers adult geeks, and they all applauded at the end.
It comes out the 22nd – see it in the theater! Let me know what you think.
Michael Bay
The thread can be read here.
nelson, admin of Michael Bay’s official website, has posted a little update on the upcoming teaser trailer
“BTW, I spoke to Mike yesterday. He already has a date for the teaser. I’ll let him post the date along with other news.”
Some new bits of information on the Transformers Movie have been revealed on Michael Bay’s Official Blog
Nelson here…
I just barely caught Michael in between takes. Among the things he mentioned
1- They will be releasing more teaser posters in the coming months.
2- Paramount made studies and concluded that the TF “ANNOUNCEMENT” was the 2nd highest rated “teaser” this summer.
3.- They just finished shooting a lot of Pentagon interiors on a soundstage in scenes that involved many Chiefs of staff in their huge war room.
4.- Shia just was recently suspended over the edge of a 20 story building in a very dynamic and intense scene.
5.- The average transformation time from normal mode to alt mode and vice versa is about 3 to 4 seconds.
6.- The leaked pictures are legit (although a somewhat early rendering).
7.- Filming of massive chase scenes will begin in the following weeks.
8.- The CGI transformations by ILM are looking wicked and nastier every single day.
9.- Part 1 will be about why the transformers came to earth.
10.- This movie will be a new start for the live action franchise that will not be based on any particular TF TV series and/or comic book.
And last but certainly not least, the Autobots are
Optimus Prime idealistic view of humanity.
Bumblebee underdog, spy, most “connected” to humans
Jazz style, loyal, eager, contemporary
Ratchet new form, medical officer, science officer. Emergency vehicle.
Ironhide tough, tough stare, first in battle, classic cowboy, gritty. Optimus’ oldest friend.Decepticons are:
Megatron survival of the fittest, social darwinism, less idealistic view of humanity. Sees himself as advanced, sees humans as lower.
Starscream seems faithful but plotting, “we will see a lot of that dynamic,” explains why he does not push it, waits for his opportunity.
Brawl eager for battle, jumps in. From non-G1 character, experimental, but will be in sequels. First disguised non-flyer.
Bonecrusher closest to constructicon but not giving away mode. Hates other cons except Megatron. Doesn’t want friends.
Barricade scout, hunter, lures into trap.
Scorponok closest to Beast Wars, fitted to environment.
Frenzy “had some evolution for us,” started off as Soundwave but had contradictions and changed to stay truer to G1. Smaller, able to infiltrate. Stealth spy, can hide anywhere.
Blackout comes in, takes out fighting ability, sends EMP, first-tier attack, transporter, biggest vehicle.
nelson, the admin of Michael Bay’s Official Forums has posted some news in response to recent events about the Transformers movie
Spoke to Bay this morning…
…as I said, he will post later on later regarding the designs (when I say later it could mean tonight or in a couple of days).
Among some of the stuff
-They (Bay & Co.) are commited to maintaining total secrecy about this project until it hits the screen. We spoke of how there was no surprise factor to Peter Jackson’s King Kong. You knew the whole movie ahead of time. There are some in the team who believe the audience’s first peak of the robots in their normal mode should be when they sit down to watch the movie in the theater (in other words, no sneak peak of them in their normal mode in the trailers).
-Bay & crew are well aware of sites putting out BS info in orded to elicit a response from Bay & Co.
-The reasons why they went with a huge long nose truck for OP (BTW, regarding the flames, there is a context for them like Orci pointed out). Bay said they did test with flat noses (FN) for scale purposes, and the FN would only be about 20 to 25 feet tall, so they went with the biggest truck they could find the Peterbilt. We’re talking 40 to 50 foot tall robots here. The physics for these robots have to be real…aka no magically disappearing parts. Also, OP is going to have much more red than what was shown in the supposedly “leaked” photo.
-Regarding the designers… all I can say is he said they all had to be fans of the show in order to get their jobs.
-Regarding the Ludacris rumor…no, he does not have a part in TF.
The post can be read here.
Michael Bay has updated his news blog with some information about the Transformers Announcement Trailer
BTW, for those of you asking
1- None of the Mars story, launch footage, and rover footage is going to be in the movie.
2.- Yes, Bay did shoot the rover footage.
Just a small but simple update. Michael Bay has updated his blog by adding a picture of himself from 27th May working on location.
Hollywood North Reporter has discovered some interesting news on the new Transformers Live Action Movie
HNR can now confirm that Michael Bay is set to roll into town to shoot his next mega flick, the live action version of Transformers! Set construction in North Vancouver is set to begin in February 2006 with a Spring start tipped
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