Transformers (film)
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Transformers will be a live-action movie released by Dreamworks, with Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Michael Bay. Its principle stars are Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, and Megan Fox. Character designs and special effects are being done by Industrial Light and Magic, the effects-wizards behind the Star Wars films.
Originally slated to release in the summer of 2006, the film will arrive in US theatres on July 3, 2007 and UK theaters on July 27. The Australian release date is June 28, 2007 and premiered there on June 12, 2007. Take that, everywhere else.
Further information in this article is coming soon as it pertains to information that may not yet have been officially released. |
Prequel Material
Prior to the movie's release IDW Publishing released a four issue limited comic series entitled Prime Directives which chronicles the events which bring the Transformers to Earth. A novel, Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, is about the truth behind humankind's first venture into space and how that event is related to the Transformers' presence on Earth, both past and present.
Since the movie's plot brings the audience into things from Sam's POV, as he learns of not only the Transfomers' war but mankind's past history with Cybertronians, the prequel material provides a better handle on the intricate storyline.
Storyline
The movie features a small, yellow Autobot named Bumblebee, who befriends the teenage human, S. Witwicky. He and his fellow Autobots, the medic Ratchet, the rough-and-tumble cowboy Ironhide, and the smooth and super-cool Jazz (who has a car hood for a chest and a visor for eyes) are led by Optimus Prime, a red and blue robot with a distinctive mouthplate, windows in his chest and a grill in his stomach who transforms into a truck. Optimus Prime's nemesis is an evil, silver, robot named Megatron[who has lost his bucket-head design for a more menacing look.], leader of the Decepticons. The Decepticons' ranks include a pissed-off tank named Brawl, a mechanical scorpion named Scorponok, a hatefilled bulldozer named Bonecrusher, and a jet fighter named Starscream, who schemes to take command of the Decepticons from Megatron, as both sides battle over the legendary object that can grant new Transformer life.
This, of course, is nothing like Transformers. Most G1 fans seem to be unable to swallow this though. To any who are reading - get over it, and try getting laid or something, it's been 20 years too long. No more putting it off.
Known characters
Soundtrack
On July 3, 2007, Warner Bros Records will release a Transformers soundtrack full of songs from or inspired by the motion picture.
- 1. "What I've Done" - Linkin Park
- 2. "Doomsday Clock" - Smashing Pumpkins
- 3. "This Moment" - Disturbed
- 4. "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" aka "Fiction" - Goo Goo Dolls
- 5. "Pretty Handsome Awkward" - The Used
- 6. "Passion's Killing Floor" - HIM
- 7. "What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost?" - Taking Back Sunday
- 8. "Second To None" - Styles Of Beyond
- 9. "End Of The World" - Armor For Sleep
- 10. "Retina and the Sky" - Idiot Pilot
- 11. "Technical Difficulties" - Julien-K
- 12. "Transformers Theme" - Mute Math
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