This is from her twitter page "More fun from the Transformers room.Recognize that head in the back?It's Mega-photocomb-atron" https://twitter.com/hstweetheart
I'll just go ahead and assume she meant to say "photoBomb" and hope none of her typos make it into the final script, lol.
It is to be hoped the head will be used again in a future film. Anyway, good to see these guys having fun. Hope they come up with fun stories.
I mentioned her on Twitter the other day. She said they are keeping things under wraps for a while, but she cant wait till they release all the details! I'm pumped!
I take having fun as a good sign since hopefully a team that is have fun will produce a fun script. Grim, dark, gritty, and all those other buzz words feels over done at this point so maybe more of an action adventure romp or something.
Glad to see such a young, happy, energetic group of people working on a script that Michael Bay will probably desecrate. Unless it turns out they've been pulling a fast one on us this whole time and they're actually working on scripts for a rebooted series, but they aren't gonna say it's a reboot until the last minute.
Honestly, I'm excited for TF5 now, especially because of the measures that are being taken to deliver a film that pleases fans and still can appeal to the masses. This whole writer's room idea is brilliant, and I can see the films being much improved because of them. See, what I think really crippled the previous movies is they had smaller writing teams, which meant that there was less bouncing room for a script and thus ideas weren't able to be fleshed out properly. Having a dedicated writing staff with their own room and the ability to look at the rest of the media in the franchise is going to vastly alter how the films will end up. We'll still have the typical Bay calling cards, but at least the rest of the films should be better than before. With a writer's room, the writing team can pass a script around a table, discuss what they think works and doesn't work with it at length and make changes to the script accordingly. It ensures that the film has more polish to it than simply having a small team write up a script and immediately have it sent out for recording. And since the staff are not only actively consuming TF media, but thinking about how ideas from that media could work in a film, I think we're going to get a massively improved film this time. Hopefully this stuff extends to the godforsaken Bumblebee spinoff, if that's being made (and at this point, I'm pretty sure it is).
Good luck getting any kind of reboot out of Paramount. Just look at all the logical hurtles they leaped just to say Star Trek wasn't a reboot. Or how it would have been so easy to just reboot GI Joe, but nope. Paramount would rather have the whole studio burn down before being nice enough to fans to just reboot things that need a reboot.
Well, to be fair, it was really the best possible compromise between the two...maybe calling it an "in continuity quasi-reboot" would be more accurate? I mean, Orci & Kurtzman took great pains to make sure it was absolutely clear that the new Star Trek movies are sequels to the material they're simultaneously overwriting. Honestly, I'm a BIG fan of their efforts there, too. If the franchise HAS to start over again then it might as well do so in a way which respects the source material and leaves it intact, as I see it. And, if nothing else, at least we got two more movies worth of Nimoy as Spock passing the baton before he passed away. That basically excuses EVERYTHING. :')
These are my sentiments as well. It's good to see fresh blood coming into the echo chamber with new ideas. For the first time I'm actually feeling interested in what a new TF movie might come up with.
