The Transformers Live Action Movie Blog is reporting that Transformers 4 will begin shooting in May 2013. This information comes via a Collider interview with Transformers 4 lead actor, Mark Wahlberg. Mark also goes into a little bit of detail on how him and Michael Bay ended up working together for the project:
“That’s why Transformers came about, because we had such a great time working together [on Pain and Gain]. We kind of complemented each other throughout the entire process, what he does and what I do and what we were able to do together, and then after that I was like ‘Dude we gotta work together again,’ and he was like, ‘Well I got a project, you interested?’ (laughs)”“We’re shooting Transformers in May, and then I believe we’re gonna do Ted 2 right after. They’re working on it now and we’ve kind of gone through the negotiation process. The great thing about it is Seth’s ideas for the second one are sick. He comes from the world of episodic television so he knows how to tell the stories, man, in a way that most people don’t, like for instance The Italian Job we’ve been trying to do the sequel for 10 years. He’s a different kind of guy.”
You can view the interview with Mark from Collider at the link above.
dirtweed
I was thinking more like the Flintstones was the first cartoon that was family entertainment and not just for kids and for the young ones that were not around then the Flintstones were first aired in a prime time slot and not on Sat. morning. The Flintstones were also the longest running cartoon ever until the Simpsons eventually made more. Doesn't Homer and Fred both have a best friend named Barny?
It kind of sounds like you didn't see the movie. Ted came alive by a boy's x-mas wish why would he be alive sitting in a toy store? If Toy Story taught us anything it's toys don't come alive until they are taken out of the package. Ted did ask his girlfriend to stick her finger inside the the loop of his tag during sex.(priceless) or how about when he said that he has written so many angry letters to Hasbro for making him without a penis. (hilarious) I'll amid I was a little surprised to hear a few Family Guy jokes rehashed into Ted and if you didn't grow up in the 80's you would have missed quite a few of the jokes and everyone is entitled to there own opinion but Ted was funny. Laugh out loud funny. Ted 2 will be funnier. All the TF live action movies so far have been "disappointing". So will TF4. Just because something makes a lot of money doesn't mean it's good. One of the greatest examples of that is the pet rock. One that same note just because something didn't make a lot of money doesn't make it bad.
LegendAntihero
Ted 2? That film is wasted potential. Ted could've done funny like sit on store shelves asking kids to buy him or complain about having a price tag stapled to his hand. (I remember there was a book and live action movie about a bear in a toy store but it didn't use my idea).
Repainted
Except the Simpsons was always set in a modern timeline with a larger cast of characters and different family structures and not a gimmicky hybrid of phases from the distant past.
Albershide
OK, why do you post on the movie section then?
Kurnaxs
I'm going to try not to get hyped up about it. I'm going to keep my expectations low so that I wont be too disappointed with it, if it sucks that is.
Autovolt 127
And the Flintstones ripped off the Honeymooners.
MV95
It seems like you posted in the wrong thread, dude. This is about a Wahlberg interview, not the fake leaked script.
openchallenge
How in the world could anyone care about a Bay script? Character who died last film walks up and rolls shoulders a couple times which totally acknowledges and explains everything. It's sign language for the director not thinking he would get asked back, ends the story line, runs away yelling "I quit!" and gets asked to come back and act like the story line wasn't finished. These movies are such a thick crust of stupid. They're not painful to watch but do not hold water at all.
dirtweed
Funny I've always thought that the Simpsons ripped off the Flintstones.
Autovolt 127
The only way that should ever happen is only if Seth can voice some characters since his range is incredible.
Necro Prime
Well, now I get to look forward to both TF4 and Ted 2. } : >
Scorpio
TF4 no longer interest me. Still have'nt seen the first 'ted' film however i have a feeling the second will be the same level of trash as the first one looked in the trailers.
eagc7
bay hates them
EnerJohn
honestly, most people don't care anymore about transformers movies. They know what they're getting. Every other film in Hollywood is a cookie cutter of the film before it. Bay is only considered the greatest action director because I was NEVER given the chance!
EnerJohn
Lol! I always joked about Bay and McFarlane working together…but on a transformers film..
Duneraker05
They better have Grimlock and the Dinobots in there. lol
Repainted
I'd rather hear more about Transformers 4 than the unoriginal thought process of the guy who keeps making slightly different clones of "The Simpsons."
QLRformer
This is true, more or less. But I have to admit, the sequels did not really deliver in terms of storytelling. I thought ROTF was nice in having more robots and a more epic scale, but I wish it had been done better. DOTM I couldn't stand with the exception of Sentinel Prime and the Highway Battle; too many humans, and a total clusterfrag of my favourite robots (Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, Optimus, Ironhide).
We can't expect a good story, just good action and incredible VFX. Which I suppose is all we watch TF for. But still, I hope they can come up with a better story that gives more screentime to the robots, in terms of characterization/development as well as fights. It may sound impossible, but I hope it can happen.
G1DeadEnd
That's an interesting hypothesis, wanna read mine?
May as the start of TF4's shooting schedule could mean: less human element, more robot on robot dialogue, or action scenes.
I've said this somewhere before. If they diminish the shooting/location budget (for example shoot only enough material for a 30-40 minute movie with live actors) they could use the money saved on creating completely CGI scenes (still directed by Bay though) like the one in ROTF, where Megatron goes to see the Fallen in the Nemesis.
A 2.5 hour live action movie cost, includes all of the assistants, and locations, and scouting, and long hours of shooting (tons of people getting paid at the same time). Then there isn't as much to spend on the effects. Especially when someone decides to make a MEGAROBOT that seizes ILM's rendering farm (devastator, driller).
Bay likes to work fast, and sometimes people can't keep up with his speed. When he directed the afromentioned scene in ROTF he was on a virtual set, with this special virtual camera rig. There he could go as quickly as his little-explosion-loving-heart desired.
I'm not saying that's what will happen, but perhaps if it were, it could be the reason for a relatively late filming start, in other words, there isn't that much real world shooting to do in the first place. The rest of the "shooting" could simply be done at Bay's own leisure, without the constraints of schedules that normal movies require.
Color me hopeful because it would warrant MOAR robot time, and certainly a different feel to boot.