Don Murphy the other day decided to add his 2 cents into the court of public opinion regarding the recent spate of Transformers pictures, such as the Bumblebees one, that has been hitting the internet these last few weeks over on his website forum.What is So Hard To Understand? ListenIf it were entirely up to meIf it were my $140 millionI'd say go crazy, find secret images and do whatever you want.I'd even let the criminals trying to profit off out work at transformerthemovie (who tried to sell us the url a year ago) do whatever they want.Because DON MURPHY (me) believes that fans make shit h
Teaser Trailer Released!
Click here to see the teaser trailer.Just as I made my previous post, news comes that the teaser trailer has been officially released on TransformersMovie.com in what appears to be the QuickTime format. I guess they had to give it up once it briefly showed up online as its quickly spread across the web. Wonder if that means I can post the bumblebee pic again? Sigh probably not.If you still see the countdown clock, clear your cache and refresh your page. Instead of the countdown timer, you should now see the phrase "Watch the Exclusive Announcement Now". Click that and away you go. The
25ft Bumblebee Pic - sorta
Update: Picture removed at request of Paramount. Click here for details.As you can see from the above pic, the rumored 25 foot Bumbleebee robot was true and the detail is fantastic. Sadly its just the top but gives you an indication of just how sweet it probably would look from the front.Thanks to Jim B. for grabbing a pic before AICN yanked it and sending to me.Also Lucas sent in a heads up of a trailer description here. I will give my 2 cents later but right now I am off to see Superman Returns.
Teaser Trailer with Pirates of the Caribbean with Score
Comingsoon.net has confirmed that the release information for the Transformers teaser trailer. As most of us already know and the official website made clear with the countdown, the teaser trailer is coming 7/4/06. If seeing it on your tiny screen doesn't do it for you, check out the teaser with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest when its released July 7th. Just a little warning, most theatres get to choose what trailers go with the movie so no guarantees.Along with that little bit of joy is that the trailer comes news from Soundtrack.Net with a score from Steve Jablonsky (Pearl H
Movie Poster Eye, Decepticon or Autobot?
Looking at the teaser poster, I thought that robot eye had to be a Decepticon. Afterall, whats threatening about an Autobot overlooking Earth with the slogan "Their War. Our World". Usually with these types of posters, you show a bad doing an evil eye, not a good guy doing a stare.However, as the below pictures show, between the blue eye and the creative photoshopping, the poster showing a Autobot eye. If thats true, I hope a Decepticon poster is coming soon. What do you think, Autobot or Decepticon?
Peter Cullen Audition Confirmed
Don Murphy has confirmed over on his boards that Peter Cullen, the original voice for Optimus Prime, has auditioned for the role in the live action movie. Now this only means that the producers, director, etc are open to the idea of the original voices, not guaranteeing their use. There are political and financial pressures that have to be taken in consideration. Realistically, if some A-list actor shows interest and voice is good enough, they would be fools to pass that up. In animation, usually the voice actors are done first and the animation (or CGI) are done after to make sure that
Hoover Dam Shoot pics
Superherohype.com has posted some pics from the Hoover Dam shoot for the movie. Nothing really to them, just some of the cast members in costume. Looks like they are mostly just hanging between setups so nothing of note is in the pictures.As far as what is being filmed, apparently its a sequence involving the capture of Bumblebee in a hidden military base at the Dam called Sector 7 that apparently involves most of the cast as Shia, Voight and several others are seen on set. Apparently to help with the filming, a 25 foot tall robot mode Bumblebee was built. He is the only one as the rest a
iPod and Xbox 360 in Transformers?
According to an updated post on the Movie Reporter, in regards to the copy of the leaked TF script they had "...forgot to mention... for reasons that I won't get into we see an I-Pod, X-Box 360 and Plasma screens sprout legs and transform just a bit."As an idea for product placement, its a brilliant, creative idea and toys I wouldn't mind buying for giggles as they would present the original point of the Transformers, ie real world objects turning into robots. However, its one of those ideas that depends on execution. If done poorly, its a groan moment that could rip the audience out of the
Tyrese Gibson confirms casting, budget
Over at MTV.com, Tyrese Gibson confirms that he has been cast in the Transformers movie, saying "I grew up on 'Transformers". Also leaked that the budget is $200 million dollars which has quickly become the norm for big summer movies (remember when $200 Titanic was scandalous?). He is one of the cast members thats filming the opening sequences involving Skorponok at Hollaman Air Force base in New Mexico so he is probably playing a military character named Epps. Beyond that, Tyrese shared nothing else about the script. His IMDB profile is here if want more information about him.
More TF Vehicle Pics
Thanks to "Slimebucket" for sending me this link that had a second series of pics that I don't recall seeing on the AICN site. The yellow car is Bumblebee, the police car is Brawl and the plane is an Osprey used in the opening sequence against Skorponok. I think the oversized Hummer thing is Bonecrusher and the Abrams is Devastastor. The last two pics are for giggles as one looks like the original Optimus Prime but was just the truck used to deliver the cars and the last could be Vortex, but that round ball on the front is probably a camera so its more likely being used for filming. Keep scro
Transformers Teaser Poster Released
From AICN comes the above post with release date, tag line and wicked looking Decepticon Eye.As an aside, anyone know a lot about blogger and html that can helped get this puppy in the top of the right column for a while or create a picture to use above instead of that plain text title. I can offer absolutely nothing in return except my thanks and a credit somewhere on the site.Click here for official website which currently allows registration for updates and displays a countdown timer to July 4.
AICN TF Vehicle Pics - updated
Apparently AICN took down the pics due to studio pressure. If known that would happen would have saved a copy of them. I did check my temporary internet cache and recycle bin and as a result only found the above pic of Bumblebee before "Sam" fixes him up and they become best buddies so sadly not able to reproduce the entire series.Also based on the comments, people think this site is affiliated with the studio but its not. It use to be but they abandoned it for tranformerslive.com so I was able to lay claim to it. If I was really with the studio, I would be a source of information rather then
