If it isn't a complete reboot sans Bay and his less than stellar team, I'll gladly pass. We've had 4 films with the same craptastic ingredients: angsty teens, parent/teen issues, greedy humans, focus on the humans instead of the Transformers, no Transformer character backstory/development, neverending chase scenes, ridiculous amounts of explosions for the sake of inserting explosions even if they're not necessary, annoying human comic relief characters....and the list goes ever on. Let's not forget my personal favorite (sarcasm intended): killing off most of the core Cons and many of the Bots.  

I'm grateful to Bay for making the first Transformers film and bringing the franchise back into the international spot light. However, this movie franchise needs a talented director and team to tell the Transformers' story. Bay and his team have shown over and over that they cannot achieve that. They rely soley on the humans aspect, which is not what this franchise is about. They can't even get the Transformers characters right.

So until we get the inevitable and LONG overdue complete movie verse reboot, I'll pass on the train wreck that has become Bayverse.

Sorry for the rant. I'm just passionate about this franchise.  

 

This is a bad bad idea, the movies are barley watchable, and I don't think Transformers is popular enough to hold its own universe on the big screen

 

I'd also love a reeboot for these - like others, I just want the writers to use the original origin story set in the 80's and then go from there. I've been wanting to see the Ark crashing into the volcano since the first film was announced.

 

Yeah give him a big yellow spoiler, some flames, and a new hot orange/red colored paint job with some side pipes and a hot rod engine and that would be awesome! So would your plot idea! Kind of reminds me of the whole comic book Transformers story of Galvaton's time travel story from "Target: 2006"!

 

That's a little too much.

 

Having more Transformers movies in a cinematic universe is a good idea. However I'm worried about the saturation of Transformers in public consciousness, the audience will get bored ESPECIALLY if we get another TF4 type movie. I'm a fan, a huge fan but even i've reached my limits on what i think is good transformers entertainment. TF4 was the low point and is the only TF movie i have only watched once. It was that bad that i did not want to ever watch it again.

Michael Bay is a good director but I think he's gone into a creative rut. I remember he made The Rock, Armagedon, The Island. Now all those were good movies. Explosive and action oriented for sure but they did have a decent story that made sense. Transformers on the other hand is all explosive and everything but i just come away totally shell shocked and feeling there was virtually no story.

I would love for Transformers to continue and it would be nice if Bay was less involved. We need some fresh blood on this franchise.

 

I think it's time for the Aligned Continuity to have live action movies. Adapt from War For Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, then go tangent by not going to Prime but going to the Age of Thirteen Primes.

 

a man can only handle motorcycle-ultra-construction-vehicle-constructicon-weirdness for so long....................
After so long the movie designs start to make my head hurt.   I would really rather not have that many movie toys of the same vein. The complexity of the toys is fine, but the designs (not all of them, mostly the weird ones)............ugh...no more


I am really hoping for movies with minimal human time and more bots. Maybe somehow that can turn this


back to this

 

one of these movies needs to be this, but probably won't happen thanks to Marvel



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Unless the TFCU is a complete reboot and ignores the Bay films entirely, there's no way in hell that they're gonna be able to make TWELVE MOVIES.

 

I'm talking about financially. It strengthened it financially.

Thanks to the movies, we now have toy lines that weren't possible before, such as more dedicated attention to Masterpiece.

This was claimed by Hasui in the Masterpiece Guide. Also, in this very thread is links to show that AoE did really well in it's respective toy line.

The fact is, the movies made Transformers a household name and popular again. Though it wouldn't surprise me that you or others wouldn't care about that, considering you guys just want to live in your little worlds and sit around like you're some exclusive club that only certain members can join.

Which is ironic coming from you as is, since most of your post history is pretty much just bitching about the movies.

 

Everything you guys said, much better than I can!

 

whoa, they're making 12 movies? Do you have a source for that?

 

I find that many to accept or reject to be overly ambitious. AoE did nothing at all to stop the domestic slide and with a stronger US dollar the overseas profits for Hollywood studios is really going to take a hit. Not to mention will Paramount set all their Transformers movies in China so they can get the co-production bonus? I'm not sure if slapping a Band-Aid on the franchise with some of these scripts will be enough to get rid of franchise fatigue.

As to moving something down to TV is there some show in the works we don't know about because I'm not sure how good the movie stuff would be for Rescue Robots or Robots in Disguise since those shows are doing their own things.

I also think the fly in this ointment is going to Paramount and the producers. Even if the writers come up with something so brilliant that it could unite a divided fandom either Paramount or the producers could shot it down for more bland, boring, generic, same things all over again. Right now Paramount and the producers haven't really shown that they can do anything except the same things they have been doing with Transformers, GI Joe, and Star Trek. We need something great before I can start getting up any faith they can do anything different.

 

That's a lot of movies.

Enough to last us decades, the rate they're going now.

 

Money matters more to Hollywood than the actual quality of movies. A bad movie that makes a lot of money is a success while a good movie that makes little money is a failure.

How many movies a year do we get from Marvel? Thats counting X-Men, Wolverine, Spiderman, Captain America, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Thor, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy? Even though they are from different studios, they're still a Marvel license. I imagine the twelve movies will be something like that. Optimus Prime: The Movie, Bumblebee: The Movie, Autobots: The Movie, Sector Seven: The Movie, Tessa Yeager: The Movie etc...

 

The title/topic thread is a bit misleading.

The 12 writers in the Transformers Story Room are ALL going to create film treatments (so, 12 film "ideas")

Then Paramount, the producers, Hasbro and Bay will sift through them and decide which to pursue and through what venue (direct to DVD or animated features were brought up).

In all reality, these 12 treatments will be whittled down or condensed to 3 or 4 that actually get made into films, at least at first.

 

Indeed. My hope as well.

 

As some members have pointed out nowhere is it said that there will be twelve movies produced. Some stories may end up going nowhere. Others may turn into a television miniseries, comic, or video game. And some will be turned into feature films.

As a Transformers fan I think this is great news. Let's say you don't like the past movies. Now we will be getting multiple writers, multiple directors, and multiple creative visions of Transformers. Chances are there will be a new film in this TFCU you will like even if you don't like the previous films.

Moreover, as a fan I don't go into a Transformers show or film expecting it to be my vision of Transformers. I go in to view someone else's version of Transformers, and if I like it I like it, but if I don't I don't.

Also, I have to give Bay and Goldsman and company credit for actually taking this continuity expansion seriously and acquiring a diverse team of writers. This started with a lot of the changes and additions made in Age of Extinction and has continued with all of the news in recent months regarding the TFCU.

 

I would like that actually.

Yeah I don't think what it actually means.

This is what I think they mean.

It could work I guess.