A Sticky Remnant of TF Movie info...

Films "Facts":

If an item is followed by a (D) then it is open to debate.

General Info:

Release date: July 4, 2007
Film Status: Post-production
Distribution studios: Dreamworks SKG
Distribution studios: Paramount
Home video distributor: Paramount
Filming Locations: Canada, White Sands Missile Range, Hoover Dam in Colorado

Producers:

Production company: Angry Films
Producers:
Don Murphy
Tom DeSanto
Lorenzo DiBonaventura
Associate producers:
Marc Haimes
John Fox
Line Producer: Ian Bryce
Executive producer:
Steven Spielberg
Brian Goldner (Hasbro)
Dreamworks Overseer: Adam Goodman

Direction team:

Director: Michael Bay
Assistant Director: Simon Warnock
Production Manager: Allegra Clegg
Production Designer: Jeff Mann

Script:

Screenwriters:
John Rogers (1st and 2nd drafts)
Alex Kurtzman (3rd draft (February script) & "Working Draft" apparently)
Roberto Orci (3rd draft (February script) & "Working Draft" apparently)
Script consultant: Simon Furman (D) [Update: Furman DENIED that he was involved with the script, when asked at Auto Assembly 2006.]

Special effects:

Visual effects: Industrial Light and Magic
Special Effects: John Frazier
Previs Supervisior: Steve Yamamoto
Pre-visualization team:
Brad Alexander (pre-visualization lead)
Laurent Lavigne (pre-visualization)
Clint Reagan (previsualization artist)
Visual Effects Supervisor: Scott Farrar

Artistic directors:

Art Director:
John Hoskins (construction)
Beat Frutiger
Sean Haworth
Costume Designer: Deb Scott
Cinematographer: Mitch Amundsen

On Set teams:

Stunt Co-Ordinator: Kenny Bates

Character Line-up:

Autobots:
Optimus Prime (Peterbilt longnose semi w/fah-laaaames!)
Ratchet (neon snot colored emergency vehicle)
Ironhide (monstertruckish black pickup)
Jazz (sports car)
Bumblebee (Chevrolet Camaro, possibly a '70s/'80s model, later reformatted to an upcoming '07 model...for some fucked up reason)

Decepticons:
Megatron (No Earthen alternative mode, Cybertronian in nature D, Currently is a pile of metal bits while in robot mode)
Starscream (F-22)
Blackout(helicopter)
Frenzy (some form of audio device)
Scorp-i-nok (scorpion/"minion" D)
Barricade (police car)
Brawl (tank)
Bonecrusher (Mine-sweeping vehicle?)

Humans:
Spike Witwicky - Shia LaBeouf
Keller U.S. Secretary of State - Jon Voight
Chief Warrant officer Figueroa - Michael Clarke Duncan
Commander Lennox - Josh Duhamel
Bobby Bolivia - Bernie Mac

General info:
* It is supposedly loosely based on G1...except when that's inconvenient for public statements to the fandom...
* It is set in the present day
* "The Energon Cube" will be making an appearance, even if not in name.
* LaBeouf will play Spike Witwicky, an 18-year-old on the lookout for his first car. When he buys one, he discovers it is actually an Autobot.
* Spike shall have a pet Chihuahua dog named Mojo.
* Human soldiers will ally with the Autobots. (D)
* Humans will have a high amount of focus (D)
* The setting is the American southwest
* The rating will be PG or PG-13. (D)
* At least one Autobot has been on Earth since the 70's. (D)
* The budget will be around $150M.
* Mass shifting will now supposedly have no part in the film.
* Arcee, who would have been a motorcycle, was first reduced in role for the story due to anti-Fembot fans, and later to that has been cut entirely from the film.
* "Bumblebee" will be mute for the majority of the film, possibly all.
* Despite claims of those working on the film, all shoot images fall in line with content from the February script that supposedly is not in effect majorly any longer.
* At least some Cybertronians will land on Earth via comet-like "Entry Mode" forms.
* Upon entry the nano-machine structure of the Transformers can/will change entirely & instantly, reconfiguring the robot with a completely different form. Very magic like.
* "nelson" (also known by the screenname "michaelbay.com" at TFLive) is not the authority on anything other than exactly what Michael Bay tells him over the phone. Duly note that much.
* Despite what they tell you, you have seen quite a bit.

From what i was told from furman himself at the Auto Assembly convention this year. According to what he said wordfor word he is not involved with the script but hes involved in working with things that are involved with the moie and Scorponok is in the film but not as designed as we remember him to be. But thats all i know so far.

I should probably get around to updating this, shouldn't I...

Just get kandi to post her turd pic again...

Is that real?!?!

Don't look like it.

*pulls out an Umbrella, and puts it in between the parade and Autobloke's piss*

If it was, then that would be one episode of the Colbert Report that I would shoot myself for missing! You never know, Maybe if we alert Mr.Colbert (our lord and master) about how Bay is butchering an American icon, he'll put him on notice.

Trying to get Cov to write the e-mail as I type this.

Just to update on the sticky...
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*Script consultant: Simon Furman (D)
Furman DENIED that he was involved with the script, when asked at Auto Assembly 2006.
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* Autobots at least have been on Earth since prehistoric or biblical times. (D)
If that leaked near-shooting script was anything to go by, and given what we've now seen in the "pre-earth" toys, the Autobots only arrive in the present day, though at least one of the Deturdicons has been here since the late 19th Century/Early 20th Century or thereabouts.

Wonder when Dumblebee arrived?

Given his initial choice of alt-mode, the 1970's, during the era of big hair, bigger flares, and Starsky and Hutch. Either way, however long Buttuglybee has been here, the rest of the Bots in that script hadn't been here before.

Indeed.

It's just a mess, isn't it?

Updated a bit. Also, any well worded points for the last "General info:" section would be appreciated.

The 'Energon Cube' is now the 'Allspork'.

Oh, and that bird playing Spike's pal - you missed her off the list of humans.

Eh, blame Maidel. Other than a couple of smacks I took and the edit today, it's all his old stuff.

Ooooold huh.

Anti fembots fans? Wow... I see now that this movie will be a total sausage feast. Seeing how Decepticons act, due to the fact of no females. I wouldn't want to be around when that happens to Autobots as well. We would acturally see Optimus Prime pulling megatrons' optics out with his bare hands.


Ironhide: Wow I never thought Prime had that in him.

Starscream: Well he now understands the frustrations we Decepticons lived with for over millions of years.

Jazz: Who knew Poontang was so powrful?

Soundwave: It's more powerful than you think.

Rumble: It can give us over ten energon cubes.

*everyone* Ooohhhhhh.

I value the merits of poontang.

It's sigged.

Ace.