Next Transformers Film Won't Be A Reboot

[Saelune]

*starts chanting* Beast Wars, Beast Wars, Beast Wars...

Though I guess it would be a reboot technically...

Edit: Just checked, apparently its set in the future of the origional Transformers...so now I actually think they should do this!

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Origin story on Cybertron please.

 

[imnot]

So how did it jump out of the genre? It's still an adventure movie isn't it? It's not like the aliens suddenly made it sci-fi or anything. I mean Bond made a rather radical (and lame) turn lately, but was Indy 4 also such a radical turn?

Because Indy is Pulp Action. You'd get similar problems with having Global Corporations, The Mafia, Robots or Pop Stars.

Dinosaurs? Fine. Nazi Dinosaurs? Double Fine. American Dinosaurs? Nope. Unless they were comic relief.
Because THE ALLIES ARE THE GOOD GUYS. DINOSAURS ARE MONSTERS. CUTE MONSTERS CAN BE GOOD GUYS.

Like Omechron said above, it'd be like Vampires in Alien vs. Predator. Or Robots in Fantasy.

You can break those rules.

(Bubo in Clash of the Titans), but you have to be extra-careful to re-assert the rules or else suspension of disbelief breaks.
That's not a robotic bird, that's jewelery brought to life.

Big difference. (Semantically, hardly any. Genre-wise, huge)

See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoFistedTales​

I fucking love that guy!
He's the best part of that film!

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I don't care, get a new bloody writting staff on board, thats all this franchise needs.

Dark of the Moon was a COMPLETELY different writer than the first 2.

Wrong. Ehren Kruger was one of the writers of Revenge of the Fallen and the sole write of Dark of the Moon. So, yeah, just axe him and Bay.

 

[Helios_(DEL)]

They should take the plunge and give beast wars a shot it may work.

 

[emeraldrafael]

maybe I read it the wrong way, but in his quote whhen he talks about Tobey, that just bothered me. whats wrong with someone wanting money for being needed. You know Dicaprio doesnt work for peanuts.

anyway, I would want to see a Beast Wars saga.

 

[Folio]

'Next'? There will be a 'next'?!

Good grief Christ on a bike! I haven't even seen the third one because I'm done with this Michael Bay explosion/stereotype/pubescant humor bullcrap!

 

[Manji187]

How about an "Origins" reboot: How did Cybertron and the Transformers come into being and how did the Autobot/ Decepticon divide emerge? What happened before the days of Optimus Prime/ Megatron?

Obviously, this would be a CGI heavy movie....with no people in it....unless, of course, human life does not only exist on Earth and we "uncivilised Earthfolk" have space faring brethren.

They have that, it's called Transformers Exodus and it's Hasbro's official backstory to Transformers and a damn amazing book too. All they need to do is adapt it into a movie and everyone wins.

That's great. Thanx for mentioning it...I'll definitely have to check it out.

 

[internetzealot1]

Spoiler

Ironhide - Dead
Starscream - Dead
Megatron - Dead

Yeah, rebooting might give you a little more range, guys.

 

[MB202]

No Michael Bay is good news to me!

 

[Sir Shockwave]

so if Hasbro wants to carry on the Live Action Movie franchise, it will have to be with a different director...and possibly be a Continuity Reboot (who else is going to lead the Decepticons, Galvatron? Scourge? Cyclonus?).

I'm going to eat my hat, then herp a derp after hearing this.

On the other hand, the next one might be decent, but I shall not have my hopes up. I mean when Bay ended Dark of the Moon, he did so without the intention of coming back - I mean

Spoiler

Megatron is DEAD, clearly decapitated during his fight with Optimus

. Granted it's not as permanent as some things we've seen, but still...

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Why do the Transformer's movies remind me of Zelda? Oh, right. They're both named after characters who aren't the main character(s)

 

[Alandoril]

I never understood the whole "not enough robots" complaint. The movie happens on Earth, and is about a young man that happens to discover a robot alien, and his adventures that follow. It isn't about a bunch of giant robots fighting each other. That's the sub plot, and I think that it was worked into the movie well.

Having just seen Transformers 3 about an hour ago, I can safely say that I don't know where they'd go with it. The ending seemed pretty final, and I'm not sure what they could to top this one. It was freaking amazing.

Yeah, but that's the problem. Giant robots fighting each other, should never be the sub-plot in a Transformers film.

 

[Alandoril]

I never understood the whole "not enough robots" complaint. The movie happens on Earth, and is about a young man that happens to discover a robot alien, and his adventures that follow. It isn't about a bunch of giant robots fighting each other. That's the sub plot

Well that's the problem. I would have to say that a Transformers film based on Transformer toys shouldn't make the Transformers the subplot.

Sure, it's the problem if you wanted the original cartoon to be remade into a set of boring two-and-a-half-hour long movies where there's only a vague plot, and absolutely zero depth.

There's a reason the films are so popular, and it isn't because everyone that goes to see them is mentally handicapped. It's because they work. If people really didn't like the fact that the robots aren't constantly on screen, a second and third movie would have never been made.

Are you implying the films have depth?

I didn't even like the original cartoon, and wasn't at all wishing for a live action remake. I also didn't want a Transformers film about bland shallow people. If you're going to make a transformers film with shallow and unrelateable characters, at least have them be the actual transformers.

In the first movie, Sam is trying to start a relationship with with someone he's had his eye on for quite some time.
In the second movie, he's struggling to keep that relationship, and himself, alive, and trying to adjust to life away from home and being on his own.
In the third movie,

Spoiler: Spoilered for those of you that havent seen the movie, but it's nothing majorly spoileriffic

he's trying to move on and find his place on Earth, while struggling to maintain his new relationship, and trying to make something of himself. He's also dealing with the potential loss of friends, through death or exile, and trying to deal with growing apart from his best friend.

If you can't relate to any of that, I pity you.
And with all that, and the robot sub-plot, which contains inner and outer struggles with each character, comes depth.

And all those things are fine and dandy but not as main plot strands in a franchise which is about an ancient-almost-beyond-comprehension race of sentient machines engaged in a civil war that has raged for millions of years.