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Next Main Transformers Movie Is A Reboot Says Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

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Speaking to Gamespot, Transformers Live Action Movie Series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has stated that the next main Transformers movie, which was announced not too long ago, will be a reboot.

Yes, we couldn’t believe what we are hearing either but, he actually used the ‘R-Word’ this time; after so many months of denying the existence of the term and its implications.

“The main Transformers movie we are working on is a reboot, and I will say that the Bumblebee sequel will be more directly linked to the timeline that we set up.”

So, what about the statement he made in Japan? We can only assume that the Japanese article is a classic situation of ‘lost in translation’. The question was asked in Japanese, it was translated to the producer in English, the producer answered in English, it was translated to Japanese for the journalists and we fans translated the article back to English.

Mr. Di Bonaventura also outlined several details regarding the future of the TF movies. He mentioned that we may see romance, in some form, between the robots.

“One of the things I want to see, and I don’t know if we’ll do this particular thing, but I think we will eventually do a love story between Transformers. What does a love story mean? Definitely not sex, maybe not even kissing, but the idea that they would have that emotional crush has never really been brought in. That’s kind of the direction we’re going to try to head into, which is to give them human desires that, up until now, we haven’t seen much of. I think that will change the relationship with the Transformers. So we may do some wild action, we’ll do action for sure in the main line, but it’s a different kind of attempt. I know we will hold on to a lot of the lessons from Bumblebee.”.

Additional details regarding the two movies in development, can be found after the jump.

So what is the release plan? Di Bonaventura doesn’t seem to know, and he prefers it that way.

“I think Paramount should just pick the best script and release that first,” the producer said. “I don’t think there is a plan in terms of what movie comes out first, and I always think you should just go with the best script first instead of planning a franchise based on release dates.”

He went on to say that the Bumblebee sequel will be bigger than the previous one, despite the spin-off having had the smallest budget in the franchise.

“It is going to bring Bumblebee into a bigger adventure,” Di Bonaventura said. “What was fun about the first one was that we didn’t have to be beholden to the other Transformers movies.”

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waniel239 Avatar

Is the topic of this thread what cognitive dissonance feels like?

Tetratron Avatar

Best news for the films since they announced they were making a Transformers film not directed by Michael Bay.

Iacon2048 Avatar
Prime time 101

Yeah shatter and dropkick and Blitzwing were soo G1

Shatter and Dropkick was definitely a fusion of complex designs of the Bayformers and the simplicity of the G1. And I think you failed to understand my post completely. I just wanted all the fans to see the new Transformers to be set in a separate universe and enjoy what little moments that they get as direct respect to the continuity of Transformers that they liked. I never supported G1 or Bayformers, just stated the pros and cons of the designs.

hthrun Avatar
96megatron

I found Bumblebee VS Blitzwing rewatchable.

I also liked the final battle, especially when Charlie was running and the bots were fighting behind her.

ChaosDonkey Avatar
Galvatross

When I think of G1 and the "spirit of G1," I think silly plots, over-the-top scenarios, characters as vehicles to sell toys, ridiculous humor, Megatron hatching some new plan only to call retreat at the end or get defeated, or Galvatron going insane in Season 3's case, characters appearing and disappearing with no explanation, and so on. It's not like the movies aren't known for doing anything like that…Oh, wait.

By the way, I love the Bay movies and G1, but there's no doubt a lot of their "issues" are simply the result of adapting the source material to a live action, PG-13 format.

And the Bay movies are the closest of any post-G1 continuity to being G1 in terms of the overall core stories and timeline. So I think the Bay movies actually, undoubtedly did capture the "spirit" of G1 and the brand, however much or little many fans are willing to admit. Maybe any future movies that follow Bumblebee will follow G1 even closer, resulting in a timeline even more like G1, but that remains to be seen.

Imagine a tf version of spidermans clone saga.
Eeee no don't :) 

Night Flame Avatar

TFX covered it, but with the Bayverse you got rewatchable moments. With Bumblebee we finally got a rewatchable film. It captures you in whole because the whole is better than the sum of its parts.

TFXProtector Avatar
JohnRedcorn

The thing that bugs me about the Bumblebee movie is it didn't have those moments where you can play certain clips of it over and over again because it was cool – Bonecrusher vs Prime fight, Autobots arrival, etc. With Bumblebee, it was only the Cybertron scene that i watched over and over again. The rest of the movie was just not exciting and didn't have those cool moments from the Bayverse films.

Eh, but to be fair to the Bumblebee movie, you can actually sit down and watch it because you tend to become engrossed in the story. How often, your post included, do you see people saying "I fast-forwarded to the good parts and skipped the human garbage parts. Except for Bumblebee pissing on people, that's weird."?

The only reason why Bayverse exists for a good number of people is just for those scenes, the only reason Bumblebee/Travisverse exists for everyone else is that it doesn't need to rely on just a handful of good scenes, it actually has a good movie attached to it. That's a world of difference.

Oh, and Bumblebee's final fight with Dropkick and Shatter? Shouldn't be ignored. He actually uses his vehicle mode to fight, and it's a heavily promoted scene, as well. It and the Cybertron opening are two rewatchable scenes. Plus Dropkick and Shatter coming to Earth and popping the redneck? New classics.

96megatron

I found Bumblebee VS Blitzwing rewatchable.

This, too. I just more or less equated it to the opening sequence, but yeah, it too works as a standalone scene.

96megatron Avatar
JohnRedcorn

The thing that bugs me about the Bumblebee movie is it didn't have those moments where you can play certain clips of it over and over again because it was cool – Bonecrusher vs Prime fight, Autobots arrival, etc. With Bumblebee, it was only the Cybertron scene that i watched over and over again. The rest of the movie was just not exciting and didn't have those cool moments from the Bayverse films.

I found Bumblebee VS Blitzwing rewatchable.

JohnRedcorn Avatar
Galvatross

When I think of G1 and the "spirit of G1," I think silly plots, over-the-top scenarios, characters as vehicles to sell toys, ridiculous humor, Megatron hatching some new plan only to call retreat at the end or get defeated, or Galvatron going insane in Season 3's case, characters appearing and disappearing with no explanation, and so on. It's not like the movies aren't known for doing anything like that…Oh, wait.

By the way, I love the Bay movies and G1, but there's no doubt a lot of their "issues" are simply the result of adapting the source material to a live action, PG-13 format.

And the Bay movies are the closest of any post-G1 continuity to being G1 in terms of the overall core stories and timeline. So I think the Bay movies actually, undoubtedly did capture the "spirit" of G1 and the brand, however much or little many fans are willing to admit. Maybe any future movies that follow Bumblebee will follow G1 even closer, resulting in a timeline even more like G1, but that remains to be seen.

I always thought of the Bayverse movies as G2 lol.

The thing that bugs me about the Bumblebee movie is it didn't have those moments where you can play certain clips of it over and over again because it was cool – Bonecrusher vs Prime fight, Autobots arrival, etc. With Bumblebee, it was only the Cybertron scene that i watched over and over again. The rest of the movie was just not exciting and didn't have those cool moments from the Bayverse films.

TFXProtector

I give you credit for being able to step back and take a look at it fairly.

Don't get me wrong, there are some cool things about the 2007 movie…
Blackout's first appearance.
The Autobots meeting Sam/Prime transforming for the first time. (Goes without saying, really. Added it because someone would jump me like a robber in an alley.)
The Autobots in Sam's backyard. "My bad." I don't care, I know it's silly, that was a different take of Optimus we hadn't seen and was actually more in line with G1 at that point.
Starscream transforming for the first time and landing on the bridge while people ran off screaming. (Followed by him transforming back and forth over the city attacking the pilots.)
Optimus transforming on the highway to take down Bonecrusher.

Those are mainly visual, however. Storywise? It just doesn't hold up. Aliens are on Earth looking for a pair of glasses, on eBay? Why? Oh, yeah, that cube thing Optimus talked about extremely briefly at the very, very beginning of the film. That thing, yeah. Wait. What do the glasses have to do with the cube? Oh, there's a match burnt (shouldn't be etched??) into the lenses. All the while, a very selfish and disconnected teenager with the most questionable parents possible (both of which are drunk when they meet Mikaela and even commend their kid for either getting laid or trying to with a "chick" who's clearly out of his league) and the military (more like the Keystone Kops) are all trying to do their thing…

Whereas Bumblebee (in its current form) is about alien refugees trying to regroup and build a M.A.S.H. style base on a planet close to home when one of them is found by the military and a Decepticon and ends up with amnesia due to the attack. A girl trying to rebuild her spirit finds him, they help each other rebuild themselves just in time to save the world, together.

Simple, yes. Good, yes. Sometimes convoluted is needless when a simple, but a solid story works best. The whole hacker subplot and all of the military this and that was a bit of subterfuge to draw the audience's attention away from the fact that the core story just wasn't that good. Maybe for the time, considering world events then, but not now.

It's two stories mashed together. One end of it is King Arthur and the alien knights of the round table, the other end is Quintessa the Quintesson wants to wake up/slash destroy Unicron (whom we don't actually see, aside from horns sticking up out of the ground) and we're caught in the middle. Also, there's a longstanding family bloodline involving Sam (who makes zero appearance outside of a picture on a table) and it's all secret agent type stuff throughout the years and we find out that the Autobots have been on Earth since basically the beginning of time (roughly) and that some of them have always been knights (Optimus) and they need a new Arthurian type to bring the knights back together, with Optimus, to put an end to it all, once and for all.

Sounds like it might be okay, but it isn't. It completely retcons all established lore up to that point, it's haphazardly put together, even Sir Anthony Hopkins said it was a lot of fun to make but none of it made sense and he wasn't even sure what was going on. Then… It ends on a needless cliffhanger. It was more or less over and done with by the time the credits roll, then Bay decided to make a credits scene that undoes what the final act just accomplished.

It's a really awful movie. It performed terribly at the box office, was overtly silly (akin to ROTF) and nonsensical. Like really very much so…

Hanzkaz Avatar
BigRed

I'd rather keep the magic the fuck away. Bee movie finally got us back to sensible plots, I'd rather not jump into the half-baked melodrama that crap like Unicron, Thirteen Primes and "teh allspark!11" bring anytime soon.

No rush where the 'magic' is concerned (and sometimes less is more). But if the Matrix turns up, then I definitely want it to be more than some sort of hi-tech device. They don't need to make a big deal about it -just make it clear it's something 'special'.

Speaking of 'magic', I don't want there to be that Energon trick from the original version of Bumblebee that seems to turn every inanimate object into some sort of (usually hostile) robot. I can understand the Allspark/Matrix/Primus being able to do stuff like that. However, if it really was that easy for your regular Cybertronian, the 'Cons could simply visit every military base (and car dealer) on Earth and build themselves an unstoppable army.

BigRed Avatar

I'd rather keep the magic the fuck away. Bee movie finally got us back to sensible plots, I'd rather not jump into the half-baked melodrama that crap like Unicron, Thirteen Primes and "teh allspark!11" bring anytime soon.

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