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Part Two of IESB's exclusive interview
with writing/producing team Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci!
{sidebar id=1}In the second part of our exclusive
interview with Kurtzman and Orci we touch up on Michael Bay's
upcoming sequel to the massive hit Transformers. What can fans expect to see in the next one? What has additional writer Ehren Kruger brought to the mix? And why are they like the Traveling Wilburys?
At one point, Kurtzman, Orci and new
Transformers recruit Ehren Kruger were locked in a hotel by Bay to
pound out the sequel's shooting script, read about the process below!
IESB: On Transformers it's a bit
different on the writing process because you've got Ehren [Kruger]
working as well. How did that work out for you guys?
Bob: We couldn't have done it without
Ehren. It would have literally been impossible because we were
producing Eagle Eye...
Alex: And with the strike, it really
ran out the clock so when the strike ended, we had four months to get
a shooting draft together. And so the three of us locked ourselves
into a hotel, or I should say, Michael Bay locked us in a hotel...
Bob: Posted a guard outside the door,
they slid food under, we got to talk to our wives every couple of
days...(laughter)
Alex: We would work in one room, Ehren
in another room and then we'd get together twice a day and trade
pages and go over each other's stuff. It was actually great, it was a
lot of fun and having him come in with a fresh perspective and not
having had any of the baggage we had from the first movie was key to
making the second one it's own movie, distinct from the first one.
Bob: And Ehren's the greatest too
because he's equal parts fan boy and grown-up and I think he is able
to get the best of both perspectives and so it was just a very fun
team and it felt, we worked together on a movie he had written for us
as producers, but this was the first time to really sit down and
write together and I think it was the easiest transition I can
imagine.
Alex: It was like the Traveling
Wilburys (laughter).
IESB: So who's Roy Orbison?
Bob: The Bee-Gees may be better
(laughter)
Alex: The Bee-Gees...just keep digging
the hole deeper.
IESB: Real quickly on Transformers, it
looks like it's definite that the Constructicons and Devastator are
in, Soundwave is in, can you give us any hints, any clues of what
else we are going to see?
Bob: You are going to find out a lot
about the mythology. It's officially going to tell you what the
Transformers history is and I think a lot of it is going to be taken,
somewhat, from gospel. I think we all settled on the fact that the
source material and the myth that established in much of the
Transformers back story was perfect for this movie. And that should
be satisfying to genuine fans.
IESB: One of the things that we got
teased about, and that I loved, was looking at Cybertron. Are we
going to actually see it this time? Are we getting the same - explain
it in the beginning of the movie and then back to Earth?
Alex: I think in the spirit of what we
gave you in the first movie, there will be similar things in this
movie.
Bob: Meaning, "no comment."
(laughter)
EAGLE EYE opens in theaters September 26!
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