'Transformers 2' Not Happening Anytime Soon
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I wrote about the impending Hollywood strike earlier today for a reason; mainly, so that you at home will better understand the following bit of info regarding the much talked-about Transformers 2. So, before you read this post, you might wanna read the other one first. Done reading? Good. Anyway, Transformers producer Don Murphy stopped by his message boards last night to give fans a quick update on some of his projects, including that Transformers sequel. And in case you haven't figured it out by now, the reason why we're not hearing much about it (according to Murphy) is because the folks in charge don't want to make a move until this whole strike thing goes away. And if they wanted to make a Transformers 2 (which they do), it would have to be done prior to June 2008. Which, realistically, is impossible.
Murphy sums it up well when he says, "But since no one wants to be filming IF a strike happens, everything needs to be done filming by the end of May 2008. So this is affecting the lack of news about Transformers 2 at least for now." If a strike is averted sooner rather than later, I imagine Transformers 2 will be one of the first projects we hear about -- Transformers is currently sitting at number three in box office totals for 2007 ($311 million and counting), and you bet your ass the film will earn a heckuva lot more once the DVD is released in multiple formats on October 16. I'm sure a lot of you are itching to see a sequel, and I hate to say it but this impending strike could seriously delay that sequel from happening anytime in the near future. As always, Cinematical will let you know as soon as more word is announced ...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-10-2007 @ 2:30PM
glyn said...
I fail to see how a strike that affects the acting, directing and scripting of a movie should affect a sequel to transformers. It's not as if they thought those three things were important when they made the first one.
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9-20-2007 @ 1:43AM
Robert Thomas said...
Well I had to read it to believe it. A strike to delay the greatest robotic heros to
hit the big screen? HOW UNBELIEVABLY ABSURD. First a strike in football, then in baseball, and now this. I have never been so appalled about how writers and
producers being the grown-ups they are, if you can call them grown-up COULD
ACT LIKE SUCH A BUNCH OF KIDS OVER THE SERIOUS MATTER OF A SEQUEL TO
A FANTASTIC MOVIE I HAVE SEEN 40 TIMES. I am a master control air operator
for one of the major public broadcasting stations hoping to go on to some TV
station syndicate and air movies like TRANSFORMERS. Maybe MY work to you
producers andwriters may mean nothing. BUT TO ME IT'S SERIOUS.
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10-10-2007 @ 3:09AM
William Pellegrini said...
Look who's being a selfish child! You think one flipping movie is the reason writers should continue to get the shaft for all their hard work as well? Just writing the sequel to Transformers will take half a year. That's on a deadline? Yet, when the movie makes $200 million dollars, the producers make $20 million a peice, actors get their $5 million, directors tehir $10 million. The writer gets his $250,000. Total. That's a slap in the face to the person that made the movie possible to begin with. Without writers, producers have nothing to produce. Directors have nothing to direct. Actors have no lines to act. Even your job is meaningless without a script to read and make so it can be aired. Yet, the writers are supposed to continue to get robbed so everyone else can make their buck? Look at the selfish child whining for his bottle while the WGA seeks justice. If you're addicted to the movie, which 40 times is a bit scary, support the writer! He gave you a Transformer to watch 40 times!
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11-12-2007 @ 3:27PM
shawn said...
It wouldn't make much difference to me if ALL the studios went dark. I, for the most part, quit watching TV a few years ago (except for news and weather). Also, I can't recall the last time I went out to catch a movie. It's the lack of quality that made me lose interest. And it just seems like every movie has some type of agenda that there trying to get across. It really detracts from the quality. There's just a cheapness about it. Besides, I think we could all use a little less time sitting on our rear ends in front of a TV eating junk food and getting fat. Isn't that what those Hollywood types constantly preech? HEALTHY LIFESTYLES?????
Besides, I think it would be good to show Hollywood that they aren't as significant as they think they are.
In short.....I couldn't care less!!!!!!!!!
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