Transformers: live action!?

[RoniMan]

link (http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=238)

Transformers Live-Action Announced
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/film/index.jsp
Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Here's the official release on the live-action announcement:

"The Transformers" -- the ever-morphing Hasbro toy line introduced in the mid-1980s that has gone on to spawn comic books, multiple television series and an animated feature -- are being prepped to change shape again, this time into stars of the big screen. Angry Films topper Don Murphy (whose next film is "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") and writer-producer Tom DeSanto ("X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United") have teamed to produce a feature-length, live-action movie based on the popular brand. The duo are expected to shop the project to studios shortly, and DeSanto said they have already received interest from a handful of directors hoping to get involved in the project. DeSanto is currently working on a story treatment for the project before he and Murphy hire a screenwriter to adapt it for the big screen.
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oooo! i want to be in it!

[gear02]

Interesting...I wonder how they're going to show the robots. They're not just gonna put makeup on these guys are they?

[Cubsfan]

Yeah, I'm not sure how live-action will work with this.

More interesting... in the comics, toys, and cartoons, all of the characters are very well-defined vehicles. Will this movie sell out and licence the characters to car companies? Will Optimus Prime be a big blue MAC truck instead of looking how he's supposed to look?

[Freelance Superhero]

i'm also curious as to which transformers series they'll model it after. like, i wonder if they're gonna try to show cybertron at all...

but also, you got the horrid beast wars series, then there was armada, and now this pokemon garbage...

i'm hoping they'll base it mostly on the original series.

[CornMonkey]

probably all computer graphics.

[Freelance Superhero]

on a semi-related note, anybody seen that movie "Robot Jox"? i don't remember much about it, but maybe it'll be something like that, as far as the "live action" aspect is concerned...