Transformers: Movie Prequel
The Transformers: Movie Prequel is a comic book story set prior to the 2007 movie movie from IDW Publishing. It stretches across a four-issue miniseries called Transformers: Official Movie Prequel (called Prime Directive in solicitations) and 2 Target-exclusive specials, later re-published together as the Transformers Official Movie Prequel Special. Together they serve as a foundation and backstory for the 2007 Transformers live-action movie.
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Overview
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Creative team
Movie Prequel was produced primarily by the team that spawned The War Within and The Gathering: writer Simon Furman and penciler Don Figueroa. IDW editor-in-chief Chris Ryall also assisted with the writing.
Items of note
- The series was originally released without a story title, as "Transformers Official Movie Prequel". The original working title, "Prime Directive" (which was also the title of the first Dreamwave Generation 1 mini-series and the working title of the movie's script), was included in the original scripts, and was also mentioned in early solicitations for the series.<a href="http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=100548" class="external autonumber" title="http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=100548" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>
- Two comics originally produced in cooperation with Target (later also collected as the Movie Prequel Special) were also both originally released under the title Transformers: Movie Prequel, and tie in to the story of this series (although the later-released Target comic contradicts issue 4).
- An animated version of this comic (with voice acting), named Transformers: Beginnings, was included on a special bonus disc included with a Wal-Mart exclusive edition of the Movie DVD.
Collections
- Transformers: Movie Prequel TPB <small>(June 5, 2007) <a href="/w2/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=9781600100666" class="internal">ISBN 978-1600100666</a></small>
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