Don Murphy has made a posting on his message board with some comments regarding Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. He reaffirms that the sequel will be more exciting, with more spectacle, and more robots. He also mentions the marketing plan for the movie stating, “We’re kind of trying to follow the PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN model, that is, no publicity for as long as possible, since the sequel will have enormous attention no matter what we do.” He also discusses some of his other film projects.
Mastodon
Does anyone even care about what this slug has to say?
Ash from Carolina
I'm not so sure that it would be all that clear for people outside of the fandom. Yea we've been around the block enough times with the Autobots and Decepticons enough times to know that the Decepticons always come back and being dead isn't always gone forever, but I don't know if Joe Public knows that.
For Joe Public it could have looked like okay one film and that's it. Megatron looked like the only one with any sort of shot at beating Prime and he was dead. They never really established the idea of just how many robots were left after millions of years of fighting so for all Joe Public knew the ones we saw in the film were the last of them. Plus it had that happy ending and films with happy endings don't always get a sequal, it's sort of most of the Decepticons are dead and Sam's got the girl so what's left to do.
Throw in that if people know much about Bay then chances are they know he's not known as a sequal sort of director.
Okay that and the way so many films now have to spoon feed things to you I think it's a safe bet that Hollywood thinks there are a lot of thick people that buy movie tickets so we better spell sequal out of them.
C.W. McConvoy
Ugh. I'd forgotten about Don Murphy, and I was happier that way.
Any links to the Bay dissing Murphy stuff that's being referenced? That would certainly brighten my day to read that.
SKowl
There's a second Transformers movie coming out? Really?! That's funny, because I haven't heard anything about it from any official source…
When does it come out, summer 2010? It has to be at least an entire year away, or we would have at least gotten some teaser posters or a short trailer by now… right?
Maybe it's like you said, and you guys are going to market it like the Pirates of the Caribbean – i.e. very little because the sequel films were so bad that there was no usable material to actually market? Y'know, sort of like how they struggled to find action scenes to put in the trailers for POTC 3 because there was only one action scene in that whole, 3-hour-long, ridiculous mess of a movie?
Railguard
:d lol
ThePatriot
this guy is a moron.
OmegaVPrime
Nevermore
Daredevil?
OmegaVPrime
I would suspect there isn't much supprise with there being a sequel since there was an unmistakable cliff hanger at the end…
Movies with endings like Sideways don't get sequels, but movies like Transformers are without a doubt obvious.
But what there NEEDS to be is at least a little peak into the movie, by means of trailer or posters…maybe even a poster with just the title on it, but at least that will get a word out.
Now the one things that IS supprising from people is when I would tell friends that the sequel was already set for summer next year, most figured it wouldn't be out for another 2 years.
My conclusion on the matter is there is sooooo much B.S. floating around latley that there needs to be some concrete information on the movie. I have seen so many rumors re-circulated back into exsistence on boards besides TFW, and i'm sure i'm not the only one.
The bigger problem though is the fact that these leaked concept images have no artist titles or anything on them hinting to being actual concepts…so really all we know is the movie is going to be longer/with more decepticons and autobots.
I hope some agree with me, it really does suck…I hate you Don…I HATE YOU!!
Apriorion
"Thank you for the pregnancy pants. I've never known comfort quite like this."
Ceasar121
Man I'm usually cool about people, but F$#k Don Murphy. I think he's a self righteous whining prick, a real life version of Comic Book Guy off the Simpsons. I think he's talking out of his @$$, and that Hasbro and Paramount are going to ensure the marketing is top notch. That said, not having a trailer by years end is not that big. If they drop a trailer 4 months before release, the world will still explode in awesome.
So while he's a douche bag, and I wish he didn't have so much to do with the franchise, I doubt they have much to worry about IF what he's saying is the truth.`
Rikerwota
I never had time for Don Murphy and his whining bullsh*te the first time around, so I'm certainly not interested in what he's got to say this time…except to complain about it of course – I could hardly be a REAL transformers fan if I didn't…
Devastattor
I'd take this with a grain of salt. Don Murphy doesn't make the final call on this-Hasbro does. They write the checks. And with their stocks slipping lately, don't be surprised to see a teaser soon to excite the shareholders and Wall Street a bit.
Nevermore
All those movies are part of Michael Bay's AWESOME Misinformation Campaign™ as well.
Ra88
……*Facepalm* He made a post on his OWN FORUM about the MOVIES THAT HE'S WORKING ON, and didn't really comment on TF2 until ASKED ABOUT IT.
Angelophile1
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Worldwide: $654,264,015
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
Worldwide: $1,066,179,725
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END
Worldwide: $960,996,492
erm…
Satomiblood
I'm going by the some people that I've spoken to personally about the first movie. They're the ones that act surprised that there's even a sequel being made. It had nothing to do with how soon it was being released…just the idea of a sequel in general. They didn't make the obvious connection toward the end with the shot of Starscream flying into space. They assumed it was a once and done deal. Does this make sense?
Incepticon
No I didn't misunderstand what you said at all, which is exactly why I responded with what I did. People being surprised that there's a sequel coming aren't surprised because they never thought it would happen – not these days when EVERYTHING comic/cartoon/novel related gets turned into a trilogy. Ten to one they're surprised because it still feels like the first movie just came out and weren't expecting a new movie so soon… especially since there has been absolutely no hype or promotion behind it yet aside from a one-off segment on Entertainment Tonight a few weeks ago.
Ephland
The movie is still SEVEN MONTHS AWAY. You really think they are going to blow their budget with a huge advertising push this soon? If I recall correctly, the first Dark Knight teaser came out about this far in advance.
They don't need to push a huge campaign anyway. ROTF will be one of the most anticipated films in 2009 and will get tons of free press.
I think it made over $900 million at the box office. So, I'd say it was hardly a flop.
Satomiblood
You misunderstood what I said. I'm talking about the idea of people being surprised that there's going to be a sequel period.