Multiple Transformers movie sequels and spin-offs to come?

[CaminusPrime]

Anyone else think for the TFCU to work, they need to revive a lot of characters? I'm thinking megatron probably needs to be the most

[Paulbot]

Anyone else think for the TFCU to work, they need to revive a lot of characters? I'm thinking megatron probably needs to be the most

There's literally hundreds of existing Transformers characters who don't have a movie-verse representative. They'd could do fine without reviving any. Of course prequels give you that opportunity to use guys like Megatron if needed.

Leaving aside Movieverse characters that have the same name as G1 characters, you're still left with Autobots like Prowl, Bluestreak, Sunstreaker, Tracks, Trailbreaker, Cliffjumper, Hoist, Red Alert, Gears, Powerglide, Seaspray, Perceptor Springer, Blurr, Ultra Magnus, to name just a few.

And that's without basing characters on things other than G1. Unicron Trilogy's Cyclonus, Tidal Wave, Snowcat, Thunderblast, Thundercracker, Ransack, Crumplezone, Menasor and Scourge are waiting for their turn to cause chaos on the big screen too.

And even teams of Decepticons. You could have movie about a set of Autobot cars (pick any from the list above) on a mission to stop the Stunticons - but maybe I just saw Mad Max and want to see a movie-length transforming car chase.

What I think about when I see all those names is not, what "Transformers" stories are they going to tell, it's what "humans interacting with Transformers" stories are they going to tell. For a good chunk of Budiansky's run on the Marvel comic, those are the stories he told. And while I wouldn't want to see them redo those stories they do show there's plenty of range for human-based films across many genres:

• The romantic comedy about a young woman named Charlene who falls in love with the car she finds broken down by the side of the road.
• The crime film about wannabe gangster Joey Slick who finds a powerful gun that is actually a Decepticon in alt mode (Browning I guess).
• The road trip story about the truck driver Bomber Bill trying to get his truck back after it's stolen by some Decepticons with the help of a talking truck.
• The kids adventure film about a group of Spacehikers.
• The comedy film that follows the misadventures at tourist resort Club 'Con.
• The found footage film about the reporter who stumbles upon a giant monster in the swamps of New Jersey.
• The mockumentary about the making of Monstercon From Mars.
• The antihero film that follows the Roadjammers.
• The superhero film about Circuit Breaker.

I'd expect the Transformers spin off movies to be more inline with those sorts of stories than seeing big screen versions of Last Stand of the Wreckers, Beast Wars, Target:2006, Five Faces of Darkness etc

[drifand]

spin off, Bumble Bee and a human.

How Dinobots live during their free time now < hard to believe they will be peacefully quiet.

Construction of Trypticon which no idiot knows. < at the end credits you see construction of Fortress Maximus as they skip Metroplex.

Oh and Optimus will be found dead, and some human will intervene to find out what happened. passes matrix of leadership.

The writer's hands are already tied from the initial movies so you can't go far, just worse.

[kup]

If they want to do this, they should do a total reboot. There is little to nothing worth building upon from the Bay theatrical films. In fact, they may be a hinder to creativity as the universe presented there is ridiculously inconsistent.

Total reboot would allow for better and more TV friendly character designs (Not some metal scrap garbage design with 100000+ moving parts nobody can see) and allows for freedom in the scripting process.

[Magnus]

The writer's hands are already tied from the initial movies so you can't go far, just worse.

If they want to do this, they should do a total reboot. There is little to nothing worth building upon from the Bay theatrical films. In fact, they may be a hinder to creativity as the universe presented there is ridiculously inconsistent.

Total reboot would allow for better and more TV friendly character designs (Not some metal scrap garbage design with 100000+ moving parts nobody can see) and allows for freedom in the scripting process.

The movies haven't really been internally inconsistent - there isn't a whole heap of stuff that's internally contradictory. Besides, AoE practically set up an expanded universe: the 'creators' are out there somewhere, and Lockdown's presence hints at the possibility of other (factions of) Transformers independent of the Autobots and Decepticons. Also, as with previous movies (as well as G1 itself), other Autobots and Decepticons can come in (seemingly out of nowhere) and join the fight.

Given that, I don't get why there's such demand for a reboot. Not only is it far too soon (one year after the last movie), but as I've said before, I feel that reboots are a 'cheat' and a lazy way out. Wouldn't a better test of writing be working with what you have and expanding on it, rather than taking the easy way out and starting over?

Besides, who's to say that the reboot won't be worse?

[Skullcruncher]

Clearly the Girl Who Loved Powerglide needs to be remade into a feature film. Plenty of humans, a bit of biffo and powerglide riding a merry-go-round.

Instantly everyones childhoods will be restored.

[kup]

Clearly the Girl Who Loved Powerglide needs to be remade into a feature film. Plenty of humans, a bit of biffo and powerglide riding a merry-go-round.

Instantly everyones childhoods will be restored.

Probably ends up being a better movie than AoE lol

[Sinnertwin]

Carnage in C Minor or we riot!

[drifand]

The movies haven't really been internally inconsistent - there isn't a whole heap of stuff that's internally contradictory. Besides, AoE

Besides, who's to say that the reboot won't be worse?

no harm at this point.
Is already worse.

I would focus on making the bots look all better and no such Que design faces which really looked horrid. Better bots, means better looking toys and more money made.

[UltimateGalvatron]

I think a murder mystery revolving around Nightbeat would be cool