Have a pinch of salt ready, Transformers fans – an alleged, leaked script treatment for Transformers 3 has been posted over at The Allspark. While it’s easy to simply dismiss this as a hoax, remember that the last Transformers movie script treatment leak ended up being rather close to what was shown in theaters for Revenge of the Fallen.
So, total hoax or is there a grain of truth in among the salt? Check out the treatment for yourself by clicking on the link above and discuss your thoughts on our 2005 Boards by clicking the discuss button.
Ace96
Glad it was a fake but looking for improvement over ROTF.
Starscreamownz
I agree with bellpeppers about the things against the movie.
Starscream's reformatting was pointless.
And your ending would be epic. I'd like starscream living and doing something good at the end. His character is the one fighting for the race. not for power.
Ruthie
This was the dead-giveaway that it was written by a fanboy.
Ruthie
Yes. And thanks for asking.
bellpeppers
O.k., I'm gonna be accuse of necro posting, but it's better than starting a new thread.
I finally got around to reading this fake script. All in all, a pretty fun read if nothing else.
The beginning started strong enough, with Prime's VO's detailing the war come to Earth. However, I don't buy Sam and Leo being not only out of school, but working at the collider. That's a stretch for me, even tho Sam has the Cybertronian knowledge floating around in his head and we really don't know his career interests. Sam being called Spike? Why not? At least Leo wasn't Chip- even tho he breaks his leg later and could use a wheel chair.
Another shard piece found in the sewer? Come on!
I gotta admit- the lading of the Ark would be awesome on screen, but I would think that members of NEST- like Epps and Lennox- would be on board.
I gotta admit- the new robot characters injected in the Autobot and Decepticon ranks do seem to be forcing a G1 movie, but really, IMO, Star Trek did the exact same thing and members of this fan communiy were o.k. with it- and even defended it in some cases so I can't see why anyone would object to the shoe-horning of G1 named characters here.
And, it's not like these robots would look like G1 robots either; we are still talking Bayformers people, so don't et your panties in a wad!
Megatron was seen flying to a ship in ROTF, so it's not really far fetched for the Autobots to have the Ark- or even a space combat scene. Might be cool on screen.
Time travel- getting tired of it. However, the things done in the wake of the time jump make this time travel almost forgivable. Why 1982? One giant homage to the beginning of the Transformers franchise, obviously. However, the cultural differences between the 80's and what Sam and Mikaela would know in present day would show a different type of alienation- and some comic relief as well. I actually felt the whole Knight Rider thing was funny- as well as a well played self-serving in-joke about Bay's fears of BB coming off like Herbie or KITT.
Sam meets his long lost Grandfather. *Yahn*. How often has that cliche been presented? Yet, it works out later because it wonderfully (IMO) expands the Bay TF Universe mythology of Archibald and a deeper connection between Sams heritage and its Cybertronian connection. The Key to Vector Sygma could be interpreted as another fanboy G1 shoehorn, but is it any more so than the Matrix of Leadership? No. So, it's another G1 homage but legitimate contribution to the Bayverse- that is, it would be if this script was real.
Starscream becoming an F15 was pointless and stupid. Greater cinematic fantasy would be achieved seeing an F22 engaging F15's. Likewise, I saw no need for BB to revert to a different vehicle yet. I'm sure Bay's production company would still have access to the 1974 Camaro featured in TF1- and it would be cheaper for ILM to re-use the BB 3D model from the 1st film (Starscream too). Isn't Prime's Peterbilt model old enough to fit in 1982? If not, I'm sure they could have gotten away with it. And how about Megatron? I don't see Bay Megatron becoming a slow moving Earth tank- however, ILM could do some cost cutting and re-use his original TF1 3D model.
However, reverting to older vehicles would herald a fantastic opportunity for new toys- and who wouldn't want that?
I felt that Starscreams killing of Megatron, theft of the Allspark and the emergence of NBE1 as taking Megatron's place was very clever. Also, the Aerialbots dismantling the Sun Harvester was a good call. Too bad they didn't reference the Matrix. Oh well- it would only turn to dust any way. However, taking the Allspark to Mars to create a New Cybertron was stupid and lame. Here's a question: if the Allspark didn't re-format Earth to New Cybetron, why would it re-format Mars to New Cybertron? Stupid.
Area 51? Aye-yi-yi. Un-original, but why not go there? Cliche as it is, at least it's an environment where giant aliens robots can duke it out and not leak to the general public like Mission City was able to. Hmm,… alien robots in A51… cliche, but I can see the humor in it.
Prime uses some iconic verbage in this fake script- "A little Energon and a lot of luck" and "Transform and roll out." Honestly, I don't see why anyone shold have a problem with this- he said "one shal stand and one shal fall" in the 1st film. More homages.
The final battle at A 51 could be as fantastic as any portrayed so far. owever, the other films at least had fights in the middle of the films. This one holds out until the end. It makes sense, but is more boring. There needs to be more skirmishes in this film leading up to the finale.
O.k.- what could be done to top the awesome spectacle of Devastator in the 2nd film? How about 2 combiners fighting each other in the 3rd film. I can only see this as a natural progression to amp up the spectacle from movie #2. Besides- more awesome toys. Again, what collector wouldn't want that?
While I thought that using a hologram to distract Soundwave would be a classic homage, it would also be a good way to trick new audiences momentarily to allow Ironhide to defeat Soundwave and is minions. However, capturing and arresting Megaron and Starscream was crap. I mean, come on! This is Bayverse Prime! He should be ripping appart Megatron's face and head! Maybe even a lament about not killing Megatron when he defeated The Fallen. That, and Starscream should be geting away. Admit it- having Starscream get away with the Allspark to revive Cybertron would be a better ending than Mars turning into New Cybertron and Ultra Magnus telling Prime that he died a few years ago defeating Megatron. That ending was from this fake script was pure garbage.
It would have been better for 1982 Starscream to escape with the Allspark and revive Cybertron. But then, the 2011 that Sam, Mikaela and Leo belong to would be gone because Biffscream took the Sports Almanac back to the future, creating an alternate timeline where Megatron can once again be revived and maybe- just maybe- turned into Galvatron.
All in all, a fun read with lots of wonderfull homages, an expansion and better understanding of the Bayverse / Witwiki mythology and some clever moments contrasted with some facepalm cliches. With some re-tooling, it could make a good film. I didn't find it as offensive as many here stated.
That_One:)
damn-I mean, it was pretty good an' all, but there were like, NO fight scenes, even at the end, and too many G1 characters, and no previous movie characters. The only bit I found interesting was the thing about Sam meeting his grandad, even though if they're going back in time, I wouldn't make ALL the autobots take the EXACT same vehicles they had in G1.
Anyways, I'm working on MY fan-script for tf3, I'll have it posted here pretty soon.
Mr.D
What if Bay is reading and gets "inspired" by this "leaked script" ?? I'd rather prefer that he stick to what he's been saying / planning until now about the next Transformers movie.
Waverider
You know what? this could be an awesome William Shatner script reading for any convention.
Digilaut
Sorry, what I meant was not literaly the 80s G1, but characters that look and act mostly like those characters (not just inspired by them), with a similar feeling, etc. They don't neccesarily have to do exactly what G1 did and have the movie/beast wars events all over again.
A 'G1' Movie would still take place in the present, with newer alt modes. Ironhide could still be a truck like Bayformers, but he'd be red with a yellow stripe, and in bot mode look different, more like his old self (but updated). Think Universe 2.0, but more advanced.
A theme could be not Transformers looking for their special artifact, but rather Earth's resources themselves, and play out a nice parallel how we humans are dealing with our resources and how it is affecting our world at this moment.
Bayformers in one way stays very close to G1, but diverses from it greatly in other ways, so I do think there could be a new movie franchise that will be more 'close to home', but still be fresh and cool for new fans. In the end, it all depends on who is involved in creating it and their vision, but the possibilities are pretty grand.
IDW and Dreamwave's comics were/are 'G1' and they weren't part of the G1 cartoon universe either (neither was the Marvel run). G1 is more than that.
Anyway, for the moment I'm just hoping TF3 will learn from everything that went wrong with ROTF (in my opinion) and Bay an co. will be able to deliver a film that will please more people, instead of dividing them into (mostly) two very strong camps. A TF movie that is loved by all TF fans and regular moviegoers is a bit too idealistic, but if they can improve the quality and still keep the wow-factor of the action it might satisfy more and we can all do the happy dance together.
Autobot_Wall-E
I really glad its fake. It was so boring!
General Magnus
Dunno, the 80s are dead to me. Some of the G1 modes we see would not work with modern life, plus, having a G1 movie would say that the cannon timeline of Transformers would end with the awfull Beast Machines and an organic Cybertron, and I kinda want to forget that part. So either make it a new timeline or don´t make a G1 movie at all.
Why make a G1 movie if all the characters we know will end up dead in the timeline, if we follow the G1 to Beast Machines era?
Plus I like the new BB waaaay more than the old one, the G1 was a wuss.
reyrey2099
Fake? So what…
Although labelled to be a fake, (I thought it to be in the beginning and it was confirmed when they time travelled), it was still an interesting read. It may not have been a very well written "script", it was still interesting. In all honesty, I'd started to lose my excitement for all things Transformers. (Work, classes, my job…stress distracted me). But it actually reminded me of why I've loved Transformers since the 80s.
Defenestrator
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL you are the roman guy from night at the museum. u dramatic basterd!
DeathscytheFish
To be honest, I thought the storyline was quite ingenious with the time travel and how they actually cleared up events when in the past, but everybody had to have known it was fake the moment everybody switched to G1 alt modes. I'm just as much as a G1 fan as the next guy, but holy crap, there's no way in hell Hasbro would EVER want a re-do of those alt-modes as toys AGAIN. Now if they had chosen other alt-modes instead of the ones they exactly had from G1, it would've been the slightest bit more believable.
Anyways, as it is, no matter what anybody says and we all know it is fake, the thing that should've been most telling above everything else… is that nobody in their right mind could EVER believe that Megan Fox could actually act her way through the way Mikayla was setup in this script.
And no blatant racism.
And no dick jokes.
Ah hell, who am I kidding, it wasn't believable the moment this leaked because there was no huge explosion attached with it.
moreprimeland
Well, D*U*H!!!!!!
So let it go…..please…
JetRaid
It. Is. FAKE. Nelson RUNS Bays site, he can ask Michael anything he wants at any time.
Sizzle
It IS fake, damn it all to hell. There is no fucking "if." Can you please stop sowing seeds of this bullshit?
But suddenly it all becomes clear to me… YOU are the writer of this pathetic bullshit fanfic. Hope you're happy. Nice job preying on the weaker minds here.
DecepticonsRule
Kinda obvious, really.
Way too much fan-wank to be a legit script.