TrekMovie.com reports that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman were released from ‘Michael Bay Jail’ (which turns out to be a luxury hotel on the Pacific Coast) on Friday, after finishing the first draft for Transformers 2. On a side note there is at least one Star Trek reference in the Transformers Sequel.
sixshot2K
Cool good to see its coming along
Ash from Carolina
Even if the writer's or the director's computer doesn't end up as source of spoilers you know things will start leaking out just because you have an army of people that work on these large projects. Remember how set photos leaked out because someone wanted to share what they were working on with some friends.
Plus marketing is sure to leak somethings to build interest in the film the closer it gets to release. Worked well for film projects like Star Wars so add in offical leaks as well to help build buzz.
Batman
Cool. So when is filming supposed to start if it has not already?
Fit For natalie
I believe they did so during a chat in August 2006, after principal photography had begun months before. But before then they did discuss the rough lineup at Don Murphy's board about a year beforehand.
Mega-con
Around what time did they release character names on the first movie? Had they already began filming or what?
Ash from Carolina
Got my fingers crossed as well that not only did they have time for a really good script but money from the first film gave them a bit more freedom to geek a bit rather than being pushed to fit the formula the suits wanted. Orci and Kurtzman can come up with some really good writing when they have a bit of freedom so I also hope they had the time and creative freedom for a great script.
Sablebot
The script and the film. . .
IF this is real news, I just hope that the production of the film and specifically, meeting deadlines, doesn't happen at the expense of a good script. While we can expect to see more robots, I hope that they are developed better. There's a guy in the Transformers Funnies section (sorry forgot his name) that's been doing a Mirage & Silverstreak series with really good character development and dialogue. No offense to Orci & Kurtzman, but I wish that said guy from the TFW2005 Funnies was working on the script with them.
If this leaks, I wonder if it will be like the "treatment" that came out several months ago?
Either way, I personally won't believe too much until closer to 6/26/9.
Lupis Convoy
Awesome news. Shame they couldn't come to Botcon this year. I would have loved to have hung out with Orci again.
aussiehippy
It's from that Trek film with the whales, where they're on earth in the 80's and spock is wearing a dressing gown.
I wouldn't have known either if it wasn't for the fact I watched it last week.
transmetal2dinobot
so that went right over my head :S
Allspark
I hope that when the scrip gets out…he doesn't get so pissed that he'll quit the project.
Omegatron
I have exclusive early word of the Trek reference. From page 42 of the script:
Taxicab Driver: "Why don't you watch where you're going, dumbass?"
Prime: "Well…double dumbass on you!"
You can end the speculation.
Ash from Carolina
Yea it will leak at some point, the harder they try to keep stuff secret the harder people are going to dig for it. Plus it's not like they are going to hold back the toys and comic books until after the film is released so if you want to find out there are ways to find out no matter how much Bay or anyone else might want to hide it.
Wouldn't mind getting hold of it myself to find out if it's better than the first script or not. Hope they get to geek out this time and build a bit of Transformers lore rather than stuff about the human cast that wasn't very interesting in the first place.
Let the leaking begin
Soundwave84
well that is good i am glad they are already getting started on the movie!!!
frenzyrumble
I estimate script leakage by the weekend.
Smokescreen
Glad to hear a first draft is done. Now all they need is a final shooting draft before principle photography begins in June, which is not that far away.
lars573
So 4 weeks, maybe 4 and a half.
lightdestroyed
It'll leak. Everything does now. It's almost a science.
Railguard
Already heard this.
General Tekno
Kinda old news… we found out a few days ago from Orci on DM.net that Bay had let them out of their imprisonment.
(Which means that they were done the draft)
This IS the first it's been reported here though.
Apparently Bay wants to start shooting in 6 weeks though to stay on schedule. Huh.