Spoiler Warning: The following news post contains spoilers from the upcoming movie.
Speaking to Screenrant, Transformers: Bumblebee movie director Travis Knight expressed his delight to see a Cybertron-set CGI movie based on the opening sequence; highlighting the fall of Cybertron.
“Well, actually it would be wholly animated because the beginning of the movie is completely animated.” said Mr. Knight. “So, you know, it has live action lighting and textures and everything else, so it has that feeling, but yeah, I would love to see that movie. I gotta tell you… that was one of the biggest thrills for me, in this process, was bringing Cybertron to life and seeing the fall of Cybertron, just a glimpse of it, because that’s where the animated series began and we wanted to begin this film in the same manner, to pay tribute to that and it was so much fun. I tried to stuff as much as I possible could into those opening moments, just because that’s the movie I’ve always wanted to see, I would love to see a movie like that, yeah.”
At the moment, the director is returning to his family owned Laika Studios to finish the work he started for The Missing Link (2019) and a brand new unnamed stop-motion animation project.
Decepticon Miner
Roll your eyes again please, you’re in the wrong, this is amusing.
Saberclaw84
I'd like to see that too. Maybe we can appearances from some obscure characters too. (Maybe some Action Masters or Pretenders or Powermasters?)
Wh33l JcK
I would love to see a Cybertron movie too, no humans!
drbeakman
jeez, this sounds like the manifesto of a serial murderer who embeds G1 TF toys in his victims esophagus
MrJoshimusPrime
After seeing the Bumblebee movie last night, I\'d say bring it on.
Saberclaw84
Geewunners are annoying.
They've been beating the same drum for 25 years now. It needs to stop.
Sadly, I don't think it won't.
But its nice seeing cartoon designs getting homages. I wouldn't mind seeing the Maximals and Predacons (both well-known and lesser-known) hit the big screen too.
Windsweeper II
It's a pity the geewun crowd always wants to hear their own little song on the radio endlessly while staying tone-deaf to any call for variety.
They keep dancing and prancing around as if is franchise was their private ballroom.
Instead of piping down their demand to hear the same song again and again they try to mute anyone who plays a different tune.
I didn't mean to waltz into this thread to
Commit murder on the dance floor. But when I noticed there was a jam I couldn't resist joining in.
This will be my last performance here, there's no point in playing for an empty bar.
But the show must go on.
I'll be dancing all night long.
ssjkazer
after watching the BB movie i say F yeah
Dinobot Snarl
Right well I play video games and watch movies. I loved it.
drbeakman
So you're going to ignore the fact that it's a superior movie overall, with beautiful designs, amazing directing, visually stunning concepts, great character development, a cohesive plot, just to nitpick the CG rendering quality?
the fact that this movie was done rather quickly, with a very tiny budget, by a brand new director who basically had to rebuild things from the ground up…
Where are the people defending Knight? Meanwhile there are those who'd seem to die to defend you-know-who's 5th, very deliberate, malicious, cynical "mistakes".
Agreed! I actually love the style and it really fits Transformers as a "toy based medium" to almost appear "realistic yet still toylike". Not everything has to be a spitting image for reality. There's a thing called suspension of disbelief, and if you actually pay attention to a plot and character development rather than the shiny things that appear on a screen, you can usually get past marginally imperfect CG.
Prime Aspect
I work in computer graphics (VR and games mostly) so I am especially sensitive to noticing such things.
Shepard Prime
Oh, I know you won't. Just remember that as much as he's repeated the same points, you've done just the same on your own end. It takes two to tango after all. Of course, when this is pointed out, then the usual fallback is,"It's our time-honored right as TFs fans to bitch about trivial shit."
Personally, if it were up to me (incoming,"Thank god you're not" by someone I'm sure ) I'd lock both sides of this tired argument so the forum can spend more time on more positive TFs conversation
BWfan86
This
Haywired
They guy in question repeats the same old song about bad, bad Hasbro destroying the franchise for evil, evil Geewunners every time when anything inspired by the G1 shows, so… Well earned. I'm not going to feel bad about this.
Shepard Prime
I'm good if BB is a reboot and truly a fresh start a la Marvel as this is the chance to set things right and ground floor the whole franchise. Start with the known characters and build up trust and work outward from there where Beast Wars and Headmasters/Masterforce etc can be introduced. It's how little known GotG hit big because Marvel built up equity with their fanbase to trust them that it could work.
That said:
This is so unnecessarily snarky towards the guy. Just because Hasbro won't use some of the other parts of the franchise doesn't mean it's not popular enough, it could just as well mean that they're too chicken shit to do it +/or don't know how to make it work. As it is, it's circular logic to think something isn't popular enough when it can't get popular due to not being used yet studios think this all the time.
GotG, Ant-Man, Black Panther (and even Doctor Strange), going by their comic book numbers wasn't popular enough to justify their own movie either over the years but Marvel did them right. Same could be said for Beast Wars and some of the more obscure stuff in TF history.
Haywired
Or maybe it's not "Geewunners" but Hasbro creating an IP baseline because they're trying to move the franchise away from being just a toy franchise. Which means that they need a recognisable base not unlike Marvel or DC have. A default to build things on.
Same thing they're doing with Cyberverse and it's mostly the popularity determining what's in. Unless you're going to claim that Arcee, Slipstream or Barricade are 84 characters.
So sorry the obscure characters you wanted so much simply weren't popular enough for this.
Windsweeper II
Nonsense.
Transformers needs to move on from 84.
Talking about being emotional because there's a g1 Optimus design in the movie,
You sound like a fundamentalist.
People who want 84 have been getting what they wanted all the time. It's never enough.
Talk about greed.
I guess the spirit of the eighties does survive.
It's very much alive.
Just like the drum geewunners have been beating tiresomely for the last 30 years.
Which is less cute and more obnoxious.
But I guess you never get tired of that.
Some do.
Haywired
Might be that Cybertron scenes and the new OP design were added later when the movie was distancing itself from the previous movies. Pretty much like changes for the Justice League and Thor Ragnarok movies resulted in FX scenes looking less convincing that the rest of the movies. It's usually time and resource concerns when changes are made late in the production.
Still beating the same old drum, I see?
Cute, even if it's quite dead and equine at this point.
Windsweeper II
Like I've been saying from the start:
If it references 84 the kind of collectors whose term shouldn't be referenced proclaim it's the second coming.
If it tries to be creative same collectors call it trash.
Dinobot Snarl
I disagree completely, Prime looked great for those 7 minutes