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Yeah bro.

 

In before 'it will only truly be a good film with no humans'.

 

Humans have to be there to serve as an anchor for the casual audience, but they should never be the focus of the film. I think future TF movies should take notes from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Just look at the title. The Apes were the main characters. They were in it far more than the human characters. Plus, it was a great move. I actually don't have a problem with humans being the focus. But if the humans are going to have garbage dialogue, and be 2 dimensional, then it becomes a problem. If Malcolm had been in Apes more than Ceasar, I would have been slightly ticked off, but in the end, I still would have enjoyed the movie because he was a good character and relatable.

 

Absolutely, there's no reason it couldn't work. Paramount/Bay etc. might not think so, but anything's doable with the right people working on it.

As much as I'd love an all-Transformers film I've never thought humans being a part of them was a bad thing, as with everything it's all down to how they're written, but I've never understood why both in the movies and TV shows their part of the story is almost always justified purely by "the audience needs someone to relate to", when there are tons and tons of movies and shows with decidedly non-human characters that people have absolutely no problem enjoying.
It doesn't matter whether they're humans, animals, sentient toys/vehicles, giant alien robots, mythical creatures, muppets, whatever, if you give an audience good characters then they will enjoy them.

 

While I agree with you about not needing humans and other things being perfectly relatable, for some reason, the casual audience can accept talking sea creatures, and a myriad of other things, but not transforming robots. I think the problem stems from the fact that the Transformers media is a byproduct of the the toys. The cartoons and comics were afterthoughts, as opposed to a movie like Finding Nemo, where the merchandise was a byproduct of the film. I may be wrong, though. I've seen people say the comics came first, or the cartoon, or whatever. But to my knowledge the toys were the inception of the Transformers franchise, not the media.

 

Bro, if we had to have 1 human, I want Marky Mark (Cade)! I loved his character

 

If done correctly, of course it would work.

 

I think they could do it without any humans...

 

Is that where Sam went?

What a bastard.

 

A space-set TF film would be cool. But these films work on the premise of a war being waged on Earth, so it's Earth and its people in the balance and thus neither Autobots or Decepticons could leave that setting.

 

Could it not be a human space station or moon colony and its people in the balance? It might be refreshing to get the live-action movies out of the Earth setting for a bit. Reduce the population and materials/equipment available to the humans for defending themselves from Transformer attack.
I'd kinda like to see a tense movie in a smaller closed and restrictive environment where humans have to struggle just to exist day-to-day and suddenly shit be attacking them and then transforming and vanishing. They can't bring in the big guns because they have to preserve the structural integrity of their space station or moon base.

But if you wanted, Earth could still feature in some way just to touch base.

Humans build their first space colony on an energon-rich moon.

"Houston, we have a problem. Decepticons."




It could be one of those 'side-movies' some people have suggested to help expand the Transformers live-action franchise/universe.

 

It could work. Just give the human a transformium breather mask like Starlord's.  

 

Yes. Don't even need the human.

What I think people constantly overlook is the fact that Transformers should be treated as characters who are really not all that different from humans. Sure, they're taller, they're mechanical lifeforms with laser guns and they can shapeshift into a more mobile or situationally preferable form, and travel through space, but character wise they have the same emotions, personal quirks and eccentricies, etc.

This is why MTMTE works so well despite the fact a ship full of transformers doesn't have them actually transform constantly. All the major and secondary characters are actually unique individuals that the story and narration makes appealing to the reader. The constant excuse of "humans are needed to help the audience relate to the plot by giving them a human viewpoint" is total bullshit.

 

Its all about the dollar. I think the studio doesn't want to change things up drastically from the billion dollar formula they have going.

 

Yes and this

 

Most Autobots turn into cars. Cars don't work in space. Therefore, they would have no reason to transform. And since the franchise is called "Transformers", well, you know.

 

I don't think we'll ever know. Maybe if the Robots are simplified even further, then maybe.

 

So use the Autobots that do transform into vehicles that could operate in space. Heck, give them all forms that would work in non-Earth environments since feasibly they may have had different alternate forms before arriving on Earth and finding some cars.

 

But then you'll hear many fans (including myself) saying, "Trukk Not Spayseship" (at least in the case of Prime) And it still doesn't make much sense. If the Autobots change their vehicle forms to something that could fly, what reason would they have for going back to ground-based vehicles.