Daily Mail got hold of Sir Anthony Hopkins over the weekend to talk a bit about his experience while working on Transformers: The Last Knight.
Hopkins plays Sir Edmund Burton, the 12th Earl of Folgan, who has devoted his life to the study of the ancestries of humans and Transformers. He and Mark Wahlberg (as the hero Cade Yeager) team up to make an unlikely alliance to save the world from being destroyed by war between the Transformers and humans.
‘You’re not going to ask me to explain the plot are you?’ he says. ‘Because it’s so very complicated and there’s the whole mythology of four previous films that come into play. I have to admit, I don’t quite get all of it.
‘All I know is I play a highly educated, eccentric English lord. I had a terrific time making it. Mark Wahlberg was wonderful to work with, the locations were excellent [Northumberland, Norway, Arizona, the Isle of Skye and Stonehenge] and I showed up, put my costume on, said my lines and stayed out of trouble. That’s all I ever do. It beats working for a living.’
Hopkins is always at pains to destroy any smug ‘luvviness’ about the acting world. He loathes the painful intensity of the method actors, who insist on staying in character throughout filming (‘what a pain in the ass’) and repeats several times that ‘the greatest difficulty in this business is the sense of entitlement some people have just because of what they do’.
The article is accompanied with a nice shot of Sir Burton and Hot Rod.
Chaos Prime
No I don't think all Transformers have goofy, cartoonist faces.
Cartoonist as in exaggerated proportions, I'm talking about Elmer Fudd cartoonish.
But we're talking about 3d
No.
Optimus Prime's face, any TF series never struck me as 'goofy'. Jazz never strikes me as 'goofy'. Unicron doesn't look goofy.
Maybe Skybyte's chibi day dreams were goofy, but I think that's it.
No. Notrod's face looks goofy. Not only does this movie Hotrod has the color pallet of a Stunticon, he has a goofy looking face to go with it.
Lord Ultron
Still remain the fact that DotM clarifies from the prologue that the Ark arrived in that year.
And I doubt that the Autobots would be able to detect the signal without some tech.
Even Soundwave can't spy without corrupting the satellites.
Deadend
Still would need to rewatch to check. Because in a crashed ship still seems odd that Sentinel wouldn't have gone re-entry form to reach earth. He was in what seemed like a prolonged stasis that'd predate Megatron's earth arrival. Especially since he had the warp gates to use too. But a black box repeater signal takes low enough power that it could go for eons under their tech. Though maybe it's possible it was traveling that long, and the prolonged stasis is from that. Still seems weird though for a ship that left before Megatron and was intending to come to earth.
Plus if Bee's scout team was on earth pre-60s as suggested by TLK. Then they'd be aware of the crash. The moon is a much easier thing to track than say earth itself. So it had to be there before that scouting team arrived on earth or before earth was under observation by them directly. Still begs the question why didn't they detect the signal while coming to earth themselves.
Lord Ultron
My mistake.
But it is clear that the Ark arrived after Megatron, it crashlanded in 1961 and the humans detected its signal when it arrived on the Moon.
Megatron was discovered in 1897, but surely arrived on Earth thousands of years before, following the AllSpark.
Starscream Gaga
I don't think there's any indication in any movie as to who left Cybertron first, Megatron or Sentinel Prime. In anycase, none of Megatron's scheme's across the first three movies made any lick of sense considering previous movies so I guess it didn't matter anyway.
Deadend
The ark signal was discovered in the 60s. Before then they didn't have the tech to detect it.
The ark itself never arrived on earth, it arrived on the moon. It's still on the moon too as seen in the trailer for Last Knight.
Not sure on the other dates without the movies in front of me. But I would assume the Ark crashed on the moon before Megatron even got near earth, since the Ark left before he did. Otherwise Sentinel may have still been active inside it instead of needing the Matrix to reactivate him. Especially when the lunar landing happened to explore it.
primalxconvoy
He probably said "What a pain in the ARSE".
He's Welsh, after all, not a Northerner, or American.
John TheDestroyer
Don't all Transformers have goofy cartoonish faces? And not just the movies, especially the cartoons have cartoonish faces.
Lord Ultron
Well, none ever said that you are obligated to consider only the movies, but the movies are taking their own route.
Everyone has its own opinion. If you don't like it, ok. But don't act as if your conviction is true, because it is not.
Every franchise has a lot of different material, and don't always the owner clearifies things, and this is one of those cases.
If Hasbro has never talked about the movies, is clear that they leave to M. Bay and his stuff the freedome to make the decisions.
Autobot Burnout
You don't get it, do you? What determines canon, then, if you ignore a concept of trying to determine that very question that every fandom faces? You've outright put Michael Bay's word over that of the actual owners of the Transformers franchise, rejected the wiki page written by people who while fans, also are extremely dedicated to figuring out what is canon or what and where, and insist that having unexplained plot holes are better than simply using headcanon to fit something in associated media in the same franchise because it makes sense and there isn't contradiction?
Or is just 'screw everything, if it isn't explicitly in the movies it doesn't count' here?
Lord Ultron
Because the Wiki page is owned by fans.
Autobot Burnout
Legally, anything branded by Hasbro to be official material is their expression of the state of whatever is the case in the films, or anything in so far as the Transformers franchise is concerned, in so far as nothing of higher importance contradicts it. As there is nothing in the films to suggest the comics in that particular subject is wrong, then simply whining about how Hasbro didn't explicitly issue a press release about it isn't going to change what is standard practice in most fandoms these days.
There is an article about canon. I suggest you read it.
Plus, even if it was a mistake…why was it never changed?
Lord Ultron
He clearified that it was a mistake, and Hasbro has never expressed any opinion about the movies.
Autobot Burnout
Hasbro owns the brand. They dictate what is and is not canon.
You're crazy to suggest anything different. Especially when Michael Bay says the tank guy in the first film is Devestator, who is also the Combiner in ROTF.
GizmoTron
There were, but I think fans are going to accept that we're in a Star Wars situation here where the tie-in material is only going to be canon until the actual movies up and decide things are going to be different, and then they're just not anymore.
Diamondback
Sir Alec thought that even after Jedi, and to the end of his days. And Sir Anthony just gave me the PERFECT "quote of the week" for my column on Wednesday in that article…
Lord Ultron
You are very confused.
Autobot Burnout
Hasbro dictates what is and what is not canon. Not Michael Bay.
Name off the top of my head for a Decepticon who was apparently around in the 1500s.
It was an either-or kinda thing. If you weren't a Decepticon, you were an Autobot and the Decepticons killed you. I mean, you do remember why the war started in the first place, right? Why it's a civil war?
Oh sure, like the Dinobots…oh wait they were all Autobots.
And Lockdown…who ACCORDING TO HASBRO was a Decepticon.
It's worrysome that you're questioning HASBRO over what they say or do at this point.