Welcome Mr. Roberto Orci, you may ask him questions

Nevermore · 08-11-2008, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Optimus747

Mr. Orci, I don't think this has been asked before, but have you seen any prototypes/concept pics for the ROTF action figures? If so, how awesome are they? Thanks!

Considering what happened two years ago (Hasbro Germany guy told me he had seen the movie 1 toys during a phone call, got into deep shit with Hasbro US even though I had explicitly asked him at the beginning of the phone call to warn me if I wasn't supposed to talk about certain things in public), I'd say anyone who has seen the movie 2 toys by this point would probably be violating some sort of NDA by even admitting that he had seen them. (Same with a certain comic book writer and his mention of having read the movie script recently.)

doomtron · 08-11-2008, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob Orci

Mostly headaches for the amazing IAN BRYCE who has to work his magic to change schedules and make the impossible happen.

Recast.

hey if you could let that guy know we are wishing him the best. cant wait for him as the next indy. he was brilliant in transformers i loved him in indy he is on the fast track to becoming my favorite actor.

Bob Orci · 08-11-2008, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Liege Prime

I don't actually take the side of the person your stating this against, but the comparison isn't great in my humble opinion. Jaws' shark was a speechless animal- a monster who's motivation was to eat. Jurassic Park's dinos were again, speechless, simple animals. And, Jaws is not called "Shark" and Jurassic Park is not called "Dinosaurs".

That being said, I had little problem with the amount of Transformers in Transformers. I have my complaints, but the bots screentime wasn't really one.

Kinda splitting hairs on the titles, don't you think?

The bottom line is that the amount of screen time for our TF's was largely dictated by budget. We'd LOVE to hear a paradigm of the movie that uses that time wisely.

Liege Prime · 08-11-2008, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Orci

Kinda splitting hairs on the titles, don't you think?

The bottom line is that the amount of screen time for our TF's was largely dictated by budget. We'd LOVE to hear a paradigm of the movie that uses that time wisely.

Yeah, I was splitting hairs on the titles but it wouldn't surprise me if someone actually tried to attack you about it just because I'm sure you've heard someone try to twist almost everything you've said online. I honestly was not trying to attack you. Like I said, I thought the amount of TF's on screen was fine. I even found the masterbation joke that everyone takes so much offense from actually funny since I picture my Mother saying something like that if she were a little tipsy (when I was a teenager).

Bob Orci · 08-12-2008, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Liege Prime

Yeah, I was splitting hairs on the titles but it wouldn't surprise me if someone actually tried to attack you about it just because I'm sure you've heard someone try to twist almost everything you've said online. I honestly was not trying to attack you. Like I said, I thought the amount of TF's on screen was fine. I even found the masterbation joke that everyone takes so much offense from actually funny since I picture my Mother saying something like that if she were a little tipsy (when I was a teenager).

No worries. Didn't feel attacked. And you have every right to attack anyway. You're the client!

Gears · 08-12-2008, 02:41 AM

Dear Bob Orci,

Can we get some version of Gears in one of the Transformers movies? He's my favorite character!

Sincerely,
Cataclizm1

MushroomPrime · 08-12-2008, 03:01 AM

Will Optimus still be ruthless and decapitate more Decepticons?

Ash from Carolina · 08-12-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob Orci

Kinda splitting hairs on the titles, don't you think?

The bottom line is that the amount of screen time for our TF's was largely dictated by budget. We'd LOVE to hear a paradigm of the movie that uses that time wisely.

Well a few less parts per bots and then maybe there could have been more time for bots in the movie, but you guys have about as much control over the look as I do so lets go with just things writers have control over until directors and producers get mucking with things.

A shorter movie might have helped with some of the human cast cut out of the film. Sam was okay as the connection character and the soldiers were a nice touch as characters that could be moved around locations so that they could be in the middle east part of the film and then in the US for the rest of the film. The computer experts though felt more in the way of the movie than adding something to the movie. Things like the Indian phone rep just really felt like dead weight added for a bad joke.

The glasses and the cube also made the bots seem like they only had a one track processor. Glasses this, cube that, just didn't have enough other bits about the robotic characters because they could only think about the glasses and the cube so the robots felt less important than these two items.

A few little things to show the bots personality would have been nice as well. Prime could have saved someone other than just Sam to show he's the big metal Boy Scout. Would have been nice for Star Scream to have more to say. Seemed like Prime did just about all the talking for the Autobots and Megatron for the Decepticons so it would have been nice if some of that time could have gone to other robot characters providing a different view. Perhaps Ratchet telling Sam he's sorry about Iron Hide being gruff but he's a good bot at heart, or maybe the tank could have said the heck with the cube I only want to break Autobots.

Oh and it would have been nice to have borrowed the idea from the super hero films that only the Autobots can save the day. If the Autobots are the only one's that can save the day then they just feel more important even if there is a pretty big limit to just how much we can see of them.

Eric · 08-12-2008, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Orci

Take a wild guess!

Now that's the best answer I've heard in this entire thread.

To be honest, I too would like to see the Decepticons outnumber the Autobots again. They have the better toys, IMO.

*runs*

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Originally Posted by Josh

i can see why he kept it on all the time lol

Prime never really had a mouth. Who knew?

Anyway, I'm not sure if you've ever answered some of my questions from the early pages of this thread, so I'll repost them again, just to be sure.

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-Is the character Glenn coming back? If not, THANK YOU. He was annoying as hell in the first movie, and to be honest, I don't want him coming back.
-Is Barricade coming back also? If so, can you shoot a flashback scene showing us where he was during the final battle in the first movie?
-Is Shockwave gonna be in the sequel?
-What is Frenzy's fate? Is he dead, too? Or is he still alive?
-What about Scorponok? We never found out where he went after the battle in the desert.

airfox · 08-12-2008, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Orci

The bottom line is that the amount of screen time for our TF's was largely dictated by budget. We'd LOVE to hear a paradigm of the movie that uses that time wisely.

Have them talking to each other in vehicle mode. That's already established in the mythos, and I bet it's cheaper to shoot.

-airfox