It's no surprise that we here at the IESB are very excited about this film and have personally been covering this film project since it was only Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy as producers. Today there is no shortage of producers, Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are now also on board.
Spielberg is the head honcho producer and Dreamworks along with Paramount will be distributing the film and Michael Bay is on board as the director. John Rogers, Roberto Orci, Tom DeSanto and Alex Kurtzman have all been involved with the writing thus far. The studios have promised all the familiar characters including Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Jazz, Starscream and others. That's about it, nothing else of the story is really known.
Today during the Four Brothers junket in New York we just had to ask Lorenzo di Bonaventura a few questions regarding the Transformers.
IESB: Is the Transformers movie going stay true to the comics and the very well known Gen 1 cartoons and storyline?
di Bonaventura: We are going to stay true to the Transformers. IESB: How much did the John Rogers script change or was it a complete rewrite?
di Bonaventura: It will be a completely different movie and it is a completely different script.
IESB: Don Murphy has been very vocal of his desire of using some of the original voice over actors such as Frank Welker and Peter Cullen in the film, do you, Spielberg and Bay feel the same?
di Bonaventura: No, I don't believe that is going to happen, I don't know why you would want the original voice over actors. Here you go, this is going to be the process, we are going to meet a lot of people for the voice over's and those guy's might end up being it but making the assumption going in [that the original actors will be used] is I think kind of silly actually. I think people want the best actors to do it. The best Optimus Prime and the best you know, all these characters, you know you want , hmm, I understand I grew up with them too, so you want to be true to characters. I think what's important is being true to them. I don't think being true to them means in literally using the same voice over actors. Some of those guys are TV cartoon guy's. I want get better characters if we can. Some of them might be able to do that and some may not, I am sure that they will get the opportunity.
IESB: Michael Bay has said that the Transformers will be shot 100% in the gold ole U.S.A., is that still the plan?
di Bonaventura: Yes, I think that will be the case.
We also spoke with the writers of the G.I. Joe live action film David Elliot and Paul Lovett and they gave us a quick update on the film. They are planning to have all the traditional heroes and villains including Destro. What was interesting was that at this time Destro would not wear the traditional mask but that Cobra Commander would be just the way we remember him. Now we know and knowing is half the battle.....Go Joe.
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