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Date: Sunday, May 29th 2005 3:56pm CDT
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 25,690
The one and only
Don Murphy has dropped another update on his site. In the
thread it is confirmed that Michael Bay is now FINALLY officially signed as the director of the upcoming Transformers movie.
"The real fans on this site are just the greatest- despite all the mudslinging and madness and fan shit I really feel like we are building a community. I know we are doing something right when that TFW2005 site continues to poo poo us. They’ll pay to see the film three times just to tell us what we have done wrong.
Michael Bay is signed at this point for the film- BUT- he has to finish THE ISLAND and it’s not finished yet- before he can focus on TF. His Line Producer a great guy named Ian Bryce (HI IAN!) is dealing with department heads and other details. We were hoping to have a script last week but we don’t. But we will soon. Voice actors and Arcee and other things will be addressed at the right time. Welcome to the hell that is Producing- things move VERY slowly in my world. And yes, it is frustrating to me."
"So what is next for THE Project? Desanto and I will be at ComicCon. Someone had the idea to drop a big ass truck in the middle of the convention and wrap it up as “Coming Soon†– we hopefully killed that lameness. We want to have bags and tee shirts and posters- all teasers. The Official Site will go on line at the con. We want to create the first ever Official fan blog. You can come by to the booth, type in your thoughts on TF and get a T-Shirt, and the blog will be permanently online for all to see. It will kind of be like this board, but an ultimate resource to the filmmakers- if it works."
Date: Sunday, May 8th 2005 5:44pm CDT
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 21,222
The
Board of
donmurphy.net is bristling once again. Not only has the man behind the upcoming Transformers movie placed another
update on the movie, but the producer has also opened up an unofficial competition for the fan base to enter.
ITEM- Initial Line Producer Meeting Happens! Tom Desanto and I sat down this week with Ian Bryce, the chap who will be responsible for the budget and schedule of the meeting. He worked with Michael Bay on THE ISLAND. We learned that the budget is gonna be around $125m if Dreamworks can wrangle it; that Michael is thrilled but the deal is NOT yet finished; and that we will have enormous pressure on us to get the film done right. But right it will get done!
ITEM- A Proposal to the Friends of Transformers! Okay, now this is certainly unique in the annals of fandom. I want to have access to a ONE hour reel (maximum). The purpose of the reel is to use a reference for what the fans like best about the property. It’s not that we all don’t know TF- I thought it would be great to actually have a physical reference reel that Bay, the actors, the producers, Spielberg- everybody could play it as a sort of ‘make sure we include as much of this as possible” thing. The winner will get something cool. I promise, once I figure out what it is. Here are the rules for this unofficial competition- 1) Whatever I say goes 2) you have to have access not only to your own cartoon dvds but also a way of editing them together 3) less is more 4) the first FIVE people to email me at Mrdonmurphy @ hotmail.com will be allowed to participate and given an address to send them to- the sooner I get them the better. After that, if none are chosen the winner, I’ll open it up to five more. Once more- a dvd/reel that is less than an hour that summarizes everything about the Transformers that the fans love. I don’t think any producer has ever opened this up like this before- let’s see what happens.
Date: Sunday, May 1st 2005 7:43pm CDT
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 20,704
Don Murphy, yes the guy who is co-producing the upcoming Transformers movie, has made an update post on the
board of his official
website. Don Murphy can be found saying the following in his
post;
Michael Bay’s deal is still not closed despite what you might think, but I’d make it 95% likely. Michael has a LINE producer partner (the guy responsible for making the film come in on time and on budget) named Ian Bryce- we have lunch hopefully on Tuesday when I will start to push for things like voice actors. Was supposed to be this week but his Father in law passed on. The script continues to be worked on….The website is gonna be up in just over a month… COMICON will have a big presence for the film- I’ll be there unless I am in London with COOL BREEZE with Michael Douglas so come say shit howdy…
Tomorrow I have lunch with George Lazenby..should be weird, will let you know why once I can….
Thanks for listening, thanks for caring about Susan and I think this will be a big week for Transformers!!!
Best,
Don
Date: Sunday, April 17th 2005 4:47pm CDT
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 51,844
Producer of the upcoming Transformers movie, Don Murphy, has been chatting up a spell for his
site once again. In one of the
threads on his own
board, the producer has started answering a whole host of questions.
Here follow some quotes by Don Murphy taken from his
board.
"Hey guess what- we have started to work on cool ComiCon stuff for TF- I will announce when I can."
"We have started some pre-visualization on the film- preliminary- looks fab."
"Hasbro needs to start the toy line in the next month to make the deadline to have toys out a month before our film."
"In John's script there were only 4 on each side...
(massive intake of breath as everyone goes what the fuck?)
Now the plans are 5 main ones.
Megs...Optimus... of course
Soundwave (no longer a blender) Bumblebee (thanks to Herbie not likely a Bug) Jazz.... Starscream.... RC.....more to come...."
"In the meeting on Thursday Hasbro all but DEMANDED that Soundwave mass shift.... the writers seemed okay with it...."
"Interestingly Ratchet is currently there too....
The writers want to make him an ambulance...
Dreamworks doesn't....
And Hasbro actually doesn't mind if he is an ambulance or a firetruck...."
"Hasbro seemed anxious to get Soundwave into musical form to unleash Ravage even if it made no sense."
"Official website ASAP- literally as soon as we can....
Final ten TFs chosen- 3 weeks
Colors/Models of those ten finalized JULY 1
Prep begin Sept 1
Shoot begin Dec 1
all Tentative"
"No Quintessions in Movie One.
The movie is gonna be much more of the origina film than it ever was before."
"The weridest thing about the meeting is that ONLY because of this board was anyone trying to protect G1 or the looks of Megs and Optimus. Hasbro doesn't mind what it is as long as they know as soon as possible. Dreamworks is intent on RE-inventing the property. You guys are being heard, but it is tougher now that it was PRE Bay, and it is not Bay it is lots of people trying to get this done. There were 29 people in the room."
"No idea about film 2 and 3
and it was sounding in that room like the Autobots may have been here since at least biblical times"
Date: Wednesday, April 6th 2005 6:42pm CDT
Categories: Movie Related News,
Digital Media News
Posted by: Razorclaw0000 |
Credit(s): Jacob Montgomery
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Views: 22,843
Check out
this article at
CNN.com for a wrap up of the current Michael Bay-related facts, summarizing Don Murphy's comments earlier today. This is one of the first main-stream (i.e. not a film site or Transformers site) to talk about Michael Bay working on the Transformers movie!
Date: Wednesday, April 6th 2005 5:31am CDT
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 22,301
For the last few days rumors have been flying, about the envolvement of director Michael Bay and him directing the upcoming Transformers movie. Don Murphy himself has given the updates on what is going on at the moment.
Murphy explains the following on his
board and had
this to say:
"Okay
Now
There is NO deal
so anything could happen
But Variety will report in the morning
that Michael Bay is in negotiations to direct the film
He feels like a good choice for what we are trying to make
will let you know more when I can"
Since
Variety is a subscription only site, Don Murphy was kind enough to post the
article on his board.
To sum this all up, Michael Bay is in talks to direct the movie, but at the moment, the deal has not yet been cemented. As Murphy mentioned on his board;
"Bay got scared off Superman when Fat Knowles leaked it. Just up and left. If he did that here, then we are back to looking for a director. And you might not have gotten a good one.
So I know Michael is happy this is out in the world- great- but we need to be chilled and get him on board".
Date: Monday, April 4th 2005 12:33pm CDT
Categories: Movie Related News,
Rumors
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): LiegeCentrino, Toxman, Tusko, Maximal Prime
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We have no idea how true this is but
Ain'tItCool.com has posted news that Michael Bay (director of Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Bad Boys 1 & 2) will direct the upcoming Transformers Movie.
However this isnt the first time Michael Bay has been
wrongly connected with this movie. No word from Don Murphy on this either but see the story for yourself
here at
AintItCool.com.
Roland Emmerich is also stated as being interested in the Transformers movie but will most likely be shut out due to Dreamworks being quite pleased with
Michael Bay's work on
The Island (
View official site).
Date: Friday, March 18th 2005 10:46am CST
Categories: Cartoon News,
Movie Related News,
Rumors,
Company News
Posted by: Seibertron |
Credit(s): Tim Gravely
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Views: 57,137
Fact or fiction? You decide ...
How do you like the work that Gonzo has done with Galaxy Force so far? If you're Hasbro, you're clearly overjoyed at the prospect of having such talented animators on board again.
Hasbro has just re-upped their contract with Gonzo, post-GF/Cybertron. Not only will Gonzo be producing a direct-to-DVD animated feature to tie into the new Dreamworks movie, but they will now be producing the movie tie-in TV series. (And exactly who was braindead enough not to expect THAT to happen?)
The real fun is still to come tho. Since Hasbro hopes that the movie will be a huge hit, they fully intend to milk it for all it's worth. They've placed a two season order with Gonzo, totalling 100 episodes.
Yes. 100 episodes over two seasons. Same as we've been getting, but now done with talent, skill and wit.
Date: Wednesday, March 16th 2005 8:55am CST
Categories: Site News,
Movie Related News
Posted by: Seibertron |
Credit(s): Various sources
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Views: 33,038
The only reason I'm posting this is because we have received several emails regarding yesterday's news about the writers of the Transformers movie. While this might be news to some people, this news was
originally posted by our very own movie news guru Raymond T almost a month ago in the news forum. You can view the original article posted on February 18th
here.
For those of you who want the news repeated, here it is:
Writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are to write the DreamWorks/Paramount live-action adaptation of The Transformers, according to the Hollywood Reporter
Steven Spielberg is executive producing the film, based on the 1980s Hasbro toy line. The toy line revolved around two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, who believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, and the other by Megatron, who espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life.
Date: Tuesday, March 15th 2005 1:04pm CST
Category: Movie Related News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.donmurphy.net
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Views: 27,051
Rumors had appeared about pushing back the release date of the upcoming movie on the net for a while now. But now Don Murphy, producer of the Transformers live action movie, has confirmed on his
site/board that the release date for the movie has indeed been pushed back. The release has now been set for a Thanksgiving 2006 opening.
"Whereas before we were "shooting for" Summer 06 now we have officially announced we are coming out Thanksgiving 06".
November 17th, 2006 anyone?
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