Transformers 4 - ongoing news thread

[kup]

I forgot how much garbage gets released with these movies.

And the stores sees all that garbage as 'Transformers' and then when the movie line is over and it's time to stock better stuff like Generations toys, they refuse it due to all the shelfwarming Transformers junk that may not even be proper toys.

[Sinnertwin]

And the stores sees all that garbage as 'Transformers' and then when the movie line is over and it's time to stock better stuff like Generations toys, they refuse it due to all the shelfwarming Transformers junk that may not even be proper toys.

Neither side can get it right. Not Hasbro or the retailers. Nobody.

[Megatron]

Mark Wahlberg Swears Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction Will Be More Than Meets The Eye! (PerezHilton, 27/12/2013):

"It was a tighter script, and its own stand-alone thing. I think the emotional core of it, the human element, is going to be extremely powerful. It’s an ordinary man trying to do extraordinary things to save his daughter and keep her alive—and this boyfriend he didn’t know anything about. He’d had a child when he was in high school and his wife passed away, and the promise he’d made to her was that she wouldn’t date any boys until she graduated and that she’d be at the graduation—because we weren’t due to the pregnancy. So there’s an anchor to it and a realness to it that I like a lot."

"Well, it was exciting because it was the first time my kids were really interested in a movie I was doing. Any time they see me with a gun, like Contraband or Pain & Gain, they want to see that, too, but they can’t because of the language and all that stuff. But I loved working with Michael Bay, and I thought he had a really interesting way to make it new, different, and fresh. Plus, being in movies that have the potential to be hugely successful allows me to make smaller movies that I’m really passionate about."

[SRCSM]Can't wait.[/SRCSM]

[griffin]

Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing how this new chapter is handled (ends up)... preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best.

[Megatron]

Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing how this new chapter is handled (ends up)... preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best.

Yep, I hear you. I'm actually looking forward to the movie, especially with the return of the greatest Decepticon leader that has ever lived and will ever live*, but I really hope that the human element part of the plot (that is, extraneous human filler which is totally unrelated to the main theme, or "realness" as Wahlberg likes to call it) isn't given more than 20 minutes screen time all up. I mean a little bit of that is fine... as long as it doesn't take away from the real story - the Trans(Bay)formers.


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[Paul Agnew]

POTENTIAL SPOILER:

















Drift? Is that you?

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...ort-of-179077/

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...1389843011.jpg

Now, I want to see shipping (and no doubt 34) of him and Windblade. This could seriously become a thing. Make it so in 3... 2... 1...

[Sinnertwin]

Drift? Is that you?

Mimics a race of Eastern Warriors
Transforms into a European vehicle
Well done, well done.

[Sinnertwin]

AoE not a reboot according to Di Bonaventura
http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...roducer/29174/

[griffin]

"Recent script alterations"???

As in, the script (plot/story) has changed AFTER filming was done... probably because Michael Bay had a new idea during post-production?

The thing that was said to pull down his movies in the past is an incoherent plot - by impulsively featuring high-impact shots (visually), and then having to bridge them together mid-project by rewriting the script to match.
This is not a good indicator for TF4... or any movie.
Even if it happens in other movies, or he's putting together a post-credits scene to lead onto TF5, a movie producer or director shouldn't publicly admit to "script changes" this late in production. It suggests that there is a hole in the story that wasn't picked up by the director during filming... or the director made the hole by not following the script.

[millhouse]

Reshoots are common, particularly in summer films. Unless it's extensive, I don't think its anything to be (more) concerned about. It can come from an audience not getting a plot point, or a scene being deemed as too slow (and being cut/replaced), or designed to enhance something that already exists to give it more of a punch in that moment of the film.

This doesn't sound anything out of the normal for a film that is in post-production. Now, we might not be knowing the full extent, but based purely on that article, I wouldn't stress about it.