More Transformers

Well, IMDB Messageboards are all a flutter about the new Transformers movie. The boards are filled with wild speculation - so I went to the various movie news sites on the web to get the word on the street. Here is what I found...

• Transformers is the first movie Tyrese has done that will not involve him singing or rapping. Good. He also claims the budget is upwards of $200 million, making it the largest movie of which he has ever been a part. Good thing Megatron has some street cred.
• Jon Voight will be playing the Secretary of Defense in this movie, and these days he looks precisely like Christopher Walken. Or Gary Busey. All of them are awesome, and nuts.
• Bernie Mac is definitely in the movie, but I don't know why.
• Bumblebee will now be played by a Chevy Camaro instead of a VW Beetle. There was some speculation that VW doesn't allow its cars to be in violent movies, but I think the producers just didn't want Bumblebee to gay up the movie like he did the series. And didn't he get killed in the first one? No matter, the actor playing Spike looks like a douchebag so there is still an homage to Generation One (the original series).
• Prowl will be played by a police car. And he will now be a Decepticon. How appropriate.
• Ironhide will most likely be a Hummer.
• Devastator will be in the movie, but the Constructicons will not - the big D will be played by a badass looking Russian tank.
• Starscream and Soundwave will most likely be in the film, but no word on what robots they will play - or if Soundwave will have his many minions like Ravage and the never-ever failing Lazorbeak.
• Megatron has been rumoured to be some sort of stealth jet - but there is no confirmation of this.
• No one has mentioned Ultra Magnus by name, but a mechanic attached to the film has leaked that he has worked on two semi-tractor trailers: one red, and one blue.
  
• Optimus Prime will most likely be the traditional red semi-tractor trailer. Although there was some speculation that he would be played by a red military fire truck in honor of the fire fighters of 9-11. Personally, I think the men of the NYFD would take turns kicking Michael Bay in the nuts if he fucked with Prime just to be sentimental. In this view, the mudflaps show sillouettes of Arcee. Nice.
  
• One of the sets is at Hoover Dam - which probably means the Generation One story of the Decepticon's thirst for Energon cubes will be in the movie
• The animation looks awesome.
• The Air Force is involved so there will definitely be some badass jets.

This is my first real attempt at trying to tease out the details of an upcoming movie, and just from the leaks, press releases, and messageboard conversations there seems to be a huge buzz and excitement about this movie. Even Jon Voight, who was too old to enjoy the cartoons, is excited about the script and the concept. There is even talk of rereleasing the old toys in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the original movie later this year! The best part about all this is that the most anticipated movie of the summer of 2007 won't be "Snakes on a Plane 2!"

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