Transformers Shia/Megan talk TF(>spidey)

[AyeCapn]

Yep. I thought it would be the same, but they added alot- they took away some scenes as well.

For example, the football try-outs FLASHBACK is not there (may just be the difference between script and book though), but the joke is still in there. Sam and Miles' friendship also is more complex than it was in the script. So, if you loved the Sam side of the story- you will definitely love the add-ons to this portion. The police interrogation is unsettling, yet hilarious at the same time. Reminded me of when I was in a situation like that with my Dad in the room.

The techies are essentially who they are in the original script. Nothing has changed, really.

Keller, I believe, has a couple of alternate/new scenes as well.

Epps is introduced earlier as a bigger part of the actual team than he was in the original screenplay as well, which is better because he is one of the key soldiers. These scenes somewhat remain the change, but are also very similar to the original script.

They also alternated the Transformer dialouges, they're the same- but the pattern of the way they speak is somewhat different.

Point is, if you liked the script- as long as everything translates- you'll like the film. Because they really improved and added to the whole human angle of it, rather than take anything away.

And from reviews and time of the film...
I think the only scene that has a chance of not being there is the ice scene, which storywise- isn't that big of a problem. We never see the Ice Man being taken to Sector Seven or Sector Seven agents or anything... just Archibal besides Megatron and his glasses. All of this information is provided later on in the film in various parts. Thus, it doesn't hurt the story at all. It would be cool to have for that amazing visual "money shot" though.

read the front cover of your novel. It is BASED on the script. Meaning the storyline is the script ,adn much of the dialogue and visulaizations come from Alan Dean Foster's imagination. He did not watch a cut of the movie and write down what they said.

The novel dialogue will not be the same as the movie dialogue.

 

[shigsy2003]

I'm a huge Spider-Man fan and I can even agree with that.

Maybe not as much action time-wise, but I think action itself- yeah, definitely. We got a robot on robot WAR for the last possibly twenty minutes or more- PLUS all the action that comes before that. The action in this film is going to be HUGE.

I agree this film will be a huge action film. However I hope it doesn't turn into the Star Wars prequels (well it is automatically better than them as Ewan McGregor is thankfully not in Transformers) where I start wishing the actors would shut up and let the fighting commence.

 

[Tempest19]

read the front cover of your novel. It is BASED on the script. Meaning the storyline is the script ,adn much of the dialogue and visulaizations come from Alan Dean Foster's imagination. He did not watch a cut of the movie and write down what they said.

The novel dialogue will not be the same as the movie dialogue.

Let me EDUCATE you on the whole script process. First you have a treatment which then gets turned into a screenplay. From there there are various changes added to it, these are called alternate drafts of the script. You may bring on a new writer or keep the same writer as the script continues to evolve, once you have found a script you lock it and that is the script that you use. There are various re-writes continually done to it whether it be before or after the actual filming process. That is the reason why there is dialouge in film that is not found in any previous draft of the script, whether the cause be quick rewrites of the day or improv by the actors themselves.

Hope that clears your head, because no- it is not the 'Prime Directive' DRAFT of the script. It is a script developed later on in the process, but it is not the final script.

There's my lesson for the day. I'm here till Thursday.

 

[*Dead*End*]

I could listen to Megan Fox talk about "large poles" all day.

lol ditto