Dont worry, say Transformers scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman everything you loved about the movie and more will be in the sequel, which they claim has an even better story.
You want to make a different movie, not just a repeat, Orci said. Its a different kind of film that the last one. Its not a disaster [movie] paradigm.
What he means is that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wont have multiple storylines told from different points of view all converging in one place for the climax. Instead, expect a different kind of narrative with a different emotional centerpiece.
A boy and his car was really the emotional thrust of the first movie, Kurtzman said, and we felt at the time that that made it a unique way into the story. We knew we couldnt do the sequel until we had something as equally compelling for it.
Part of that involves Shia LeBeoufs character Sam going to college and getting injured along the way (
although not exactly as the actor did in real life).
We didnt have to reshoot anything, Orci said, but we put [an injury] in there. We wanted to make sure that we put it in so he could be protected, because hes running around a lot and bashing into things, and he needed something to hold it like a sling [after his hand surgery]. So we wrote it into the script to explain it away.
Orci and Kurtzman wont explain away the story itself - they want to keep that a mystery, even if they say the movie itself wont be this time.
The first movie was about the mystery, Orci said.
I think theres an expectation that there will be a deeper mythology where the Transformers came from, Kurtzman said. The key is not to get so mired in the mythology that it cant propel the movie forward. We just touched the tip of the iceberg.