Transformers AICN interview with Shia LeBouf

[Shinobi Rendar]

Read it here http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24383

 

[terry78]

Damn, this dude swears more than me. At least he appears to be an actual fan of the original show from the comments he's making.

 

[xwolverine2]

Turturro plays Simmons, who is the CIA agent who is so closed minded that he can't listen to a child. He's the head of a section of the government called Sector 7, which controls everything the CIA doesn't know about.

wierd casting

 

[bluejake01]

Interesting...He indicates that Megatron does take on an Earth mode when he wakes up...a Razor...

 

[Shinobi Rendar]

I tried to do some research on this razor and didn't find anything concerning a jet. It really is top secret.

 

[xwolverine2]

There's more action in this movie than in all of SUPERMAN (RETURNS). You understand that going in. This isn't Bryan Singer directing a romantic film (with action elements).

LOL!... thats not saying much

"**** you! I'll be here all day. You will not leave this set, I promise you. We have enough money, you can be my slave for the rest of this day, until you do it this way."

my respect for MB has never been higher

Rubix Cube

its like im psychic

 

[Shinobi Rendar]

lol

 

[xwolverine2]

I tried to do some research on this razor and didn't find anything concerning a jet. It really is top secret.

i guess the US airforce created ninja turtles

 

[Shinobi Rendar]

HAHA i found that too when searching.

 

[CFlash]

What's up with this all this revisionist history going on? In the "80's guns were dangerous, but today it's nuclear bombs." WTF? Um, Cold War people?

That interview made me less confident.

I am way uncomfortable with the way "military might" is being presented here. They better not be the heroes. I'll hurl my diet coke at the screen. I wanna see the Decepticons kick as ass and the Autobots save everything. I can deal with Sam doing it too... since in the original comic series it was Sparkplug that saved the day. But the military? No way, no how.

I love this quote:
"It's like knowing where the next oil well is, for Americans. Now you have this power, everyone's going to come after you. The Energon Cube is that."
Um, in the original story it WAS OIL for the robots too you nitwit. Now we're getting "The Holy Energon Cube."

 

[CherryRedSpider]

I'm sure the makers of the movie Stealth could sell this jet and say it's a razor. They need all the money they can get after that flop.

 

[CFlash]

I'm sure the makers of the movie Stealth could sell this jet and say it's a razor. They need all the money they can get after that flop.

That's what I was reminded of when I read the interview.

 

[xwolverine2]

I'm sure the makers of the movie Stealth could sell this jet and say it's a razor. They need all the money they can get after that flop.

hey... i liked that movie. it was fun.

i would LOVE IF megatron looked like this

 

[xwolverine2]

 

[Boiiinng]

Only thing I found was from Crow Aviation

But those are model airplanes.

 

[xwolverine2]

well..... at least we can say it will be a jet of some sorts

 

[The Only Woj]

Interesting...He indicates that Megatron does take on an Earth mode when he wakes up...a Razor...

I dont think that's what he meant. The way I took it, he's still a Cybertronian Jet ... but they're using an actual plane developed by our military, "the Razor", as that jet ... so they have an actual, functional jet that they can use.

 

[xwolverine2]

I dont think that's what he meant. The way I took it, he's still a Cybertronian Jet ... but they're using an actual plane developed by our military, "the Razor", as that jet ... so they have an actual, functional jet that they can use.

yeah thats what i was thinking too....

he did it for The island as well........ with the helicopters. so its no surprise

but shouldnt the jet be chrome silver? jets are never like that....too freakin heavy

 

[Shinobi Rendar]

nah it won't be chromed silver.

 

[xwolverine2]

nah it won't be chromed silver.

then why is the concept art chrome?

 

[nosebleed.]

My hopes were really high for this interview because I thought that Shia would be able to give us Transformers fans an inside look on the production, himself being a Transformers fan. Maybe I was hoping too much that it would be unbiased. Here's a couple of things I had issues with.

THIS really irked me:

You know... I sat down with Bay before shooting and he told me that the whole hook for him with this project wasn't the robots or the action. He said it was the human story, specifically your story, what he called the All-American story of a kid getting his first car.

When I met with him he said the same thing. That's why I was into it. I mean, yes it was TRANSFORMERS

“It was the human story” that made Bay want to go for this movie. Even though the title is “Transformers”. Yay.

Then you have Spielberg giving him cell phone calls. It's not as though he's alone in this. It's the Michael Bay and it's the ****in' action you've never seen before, but it's also Spielberg on the other end saying, "You gotta make people care about Bumblebee. This is how you make him emotional." And Spielberg is the king at it.

We need more of this. More Spielberg intervention.

ILM definitely has said, as far as their **** goes, nobody's ever seen anything like this. You have ILM guys excited. You don't see graphic guys, guys who are in that side of the business, ever go, "Awesome!" They say they go back to ILM and have never seen anything like it. The guys are excited. To be doing something like that is awesome, to know that you're a part of something that is going to change a portion of filmmaking.

That is good. The effects and the action are the two things I am NOT worried about. Pretty much everything else, I am.

QUINT: Well, at the same time, with all respect to everybody involved, the stars of the movie are the robots...

SHIA LABEOUF: Correct.

QUINT: You're not going to steal a scene from Optimus Prime.

SHIA LABEOUF: No. You can't scene-steal a robot! You just can't! Will Smith couldn't do it in I, ROBOT. You look at that. You really study that fact. Will Smith, one of the most electrifying stars in our business couldn't take away from the character. You give leeway to it. It's a different respect for something that's not even there and you know that your whole movie is on that. The whole reason you're here is because of that ****in' imaginary.

We’ll see how much of this is true and how much is just Shia giving a default answer.

I can relate to what Quint says at the end. The fact that Megatron’s design looks horrible, and that this may not be the Transformer movie that Transformer fans have been looking forward to. It definitely will be one of Bay’s better movies…but that’s it, it will be a Bay movie. We wil have to wait for opening day to see if it will feel like a Transformers movie or a “big ****ing robot” movie with the name Transformers.

I look forward to more of Quint’s inside info, especially since he’s decided to add this little piece of info at the end:

I'm working on one more bit of TRANSFORMERS coolness for you folks. Even those who are completely against this film would dig on what I'm trying to arrange. I don't want to say what it is in case it doesn't pan out, but you'll see me geek out pretty heavily if it happens and I think all you will, too, as it involves the one thing every TRANSFORMERS fan can agree on. 'Til then, this is Quint bidding you a fond farewell and adieu.

Any speculation of what this could be?

 

[Mic]

Any speculation of what this could be?

Murphy getting a public beating

 

[TheCardPlayer]

The usual whiners strike again.

You know what? This movie is horrible. Go to other boards to spread the horrible news. Meanwhile, we'll be sellout and enjoy talking about this '' travesty''.


Thanks.


PS. CFlash. I was mocking your posts about a year ago. Before the pictures and the lineup was announced. You were always a hater you hypocrite.

 

[millennium movies]

Oh come on Shinobi. You were the last person i expected to make a new topic. Did't we make a thread for set visits/reports? This shure is one. It's just trying to keep this forum clean and organised. Now come on man...

 

[nosebleed.]

The usual whiners strike again.

You know what? This movie is horrible. Go to other boards to spread the horrible news. Meanwhile, we'll be sellout and enjoy talking about this '' travesty''.


Thanks.

Referring to me? I can enjoy talking about this movie as much as you. Put something more than crap on the screen and maybe you'll get more than crap as a reply.