Kenneth Branaugh's "TRANSFORMERS"!

[Azaraxzealot]

If I had to pick any director to take over for Transformers, I'd pick this guy, right here. He KNOWS drama, he can act, he can direct (as shown in Thor and his Shakespearean adaptions) and he focuses more on character development than action.

He'd probably have turned Transformers into a space opera or focused entirely on the lead-up tp the Cybertronian wars with lots of scenes of betrayal, love, and passionate speeches.

what do you think? who would you want to take over the Transformers franchise if you could pick?

 

[The Serpent]

I think Transformers is one those occasions where you can't have weird aliens as main characters. Not because they are giant alien robots, that could work, but because they are toys. I could never take it seriously, and neither would the masses or the critics. Only the ten fanboys out there and you. :/

It's the one thing I don't like about My Little Pony (not trying to derail). I saw the show, and I liked it fine, but did it have to be called "My Little Pony"? That's the name of a toy-franchise! Every time I hear it the word "synergy" and sleazy suits who bleed parents wallets dry come to mind..

Anyway, back on topic: Branagh would do just fine with the material, but honestly I think the fanboys need to let this one go. Pokemon was my Transformers (born in 1991), and I would never suggest that a franchise about forcing little animals to fight each other for fun would make a good, serious, summer blockbuster. Neither will giant toy-robots for ten year old boys. Ever.

 

[Doktor Sleepless]

Still want a Beast Wars trilogy though. Full non-human cast barring Neanderthals please. Insert joke about Bay already doing that here please.

 

[Harveypot]

I tthink that Transformers would be better as a comedy with someone like Edgar Wright directing it. The action scenes in Hot Fuzz were brilliant so the robo-fights would look amazing. But there would be barely any humans in it. When you go to see Transformers, you want cars beating each other up.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I think Transformers is one those occasions where you can't have weird aliens as main characters. Not because they are giant alien robots, that could work, but because they are toys. I could never take it seriously, and neither would the masses or the critics. Only the ten fanboys out there and you. :/

It's the one thing I don't like about My Little Pony (not trying to derail). I saw the show, and I liked it fine, but did it have to be called "My Little Pony"? That's the name of a toy-franchise! Every time I hear it the word "synergy" and sleazy suits who bleed parents wallets dry come to mind..

Anyway, back on topic: Branagh would do just fine with the material, but honestly I think the fanboys need to let this one go. Pokemon was my Transformers (born in 1991), and I would never suggest that a franchise about forcing little animals to fight each other for fun would make a good, serious, summer blockbuster. Neither will giant toy-robots for ten year old boys. Ever.

You know, you have a point, but the whole point of a Summer blockbuster is to make a big dumb action movie that our inner 10 year old can ooh and ah at. Transformers is actually perfect for the job -- the problem is that there was too much focus on Shia Lebouf, and not enough focus on the big dumb explosions. The first one was still entertaining, and while I can't comment on the second one, not having seen it, I'd imagine that it was a lot better than the critics made it out to be.

I agree that Pokemon wouldn't work well as a blockbuster, but something else from the period, like, say, Samurai Jack, could easily work.