Beast Wars Live Action Movie Thread.

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  1. TheSoundwave

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    They could still use the same robot characters and incorporate aspects of the Beast Wars stories.

    I'm just saying everyone should expect human involvement in a live-action Beast Wars movie. Paramount probably isn't going to make a Lion King 2019-style movie with photorealistic animation and no humans. That movie was a major exception that was only made because the original Lion King is among the most popular movies ever. There's quite literally no other movie like that. Expecting that from a Transformers movie (a brand that's still recovering from TLK's disappointment) is logistically unrealistic. I've seen people assuming that will be the case, and they're likely in for a big disappointment. If the Beast Wars movie is live-action, there's a 99.9% chance that it will have humans in a somewhat major role.

    Again, the movie will likely be a loose adaptation, just like the '07 movie was. Or how DOTM was a loose adaptation of a couple G1 episodes. They'll likely take the concept of robots that turn into animals (and some of the recognizable characters, like Primal) and use them to tell a new story. So far no Transformers movie has been a faithful telling of an existing story, so there's no reason to assume this will be any different.
     
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    Yeah. . .Hasbromount would find some stupid way to once again throw humans into it, and Lorenzo (if he is involved) would once again come out speaking his mind-numbing corporate$peak to try to justify it. . .They'd probably make it a crappy Jurassic Park rip-off. . .
     
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    ...yeah, more and more I'm convinced the best approach to a BW movie (on the assumption such a thing would ever actually get made) is to go the "regressed future Earth with a technophobic-to-the-point-of-tribalism humankind" route. You wouldn't necessarily have to reduce the human characters to poop-throwers with a vocabulary limited to shrieks, howls and grunts, but it'd be a nifty way of selling the audience on the idea that the Autobot and Decepticon conflict took a toll on human civilization in the interceding decades, by showing what became of a species that got really leery of using cell phones or cars or military assault vehicles and never being sure when those things would pop open, stand up on legs and blast their users into steaming puddles of protoplasm.
     
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    Get ready for the story to be about a human child working at a zoo or some shit and all the Maximals are disguised as animals in the enclosures and are more or less his pets.

    Also, what if they keep up the "robots can't talk in alt mode" rule that almost every character in the Bay movies adhered to?
     
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    Yeah, they'd try to make it cute like the Bumblebee movie. Blech.
     
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    The Bumblebee movie was cute, though, because Bumblebee is cute. (or at least he's supposed to be)
     
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    I do wonder how the hell are the Predacons gonna work if that is the story?!?
     
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    Yeah, I'm saying they'll try to replicate that movie's cuteness. And I reiterate for the record: blech.

    Circus animals. Zoo vs. Circus.
     
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    How is this going to be live action if it's gonna be Lion King 2019 style animation?
     
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    It's likely not going to be Lion King 2019 animation. I mean, the robots will certainly be photorealistic animation, as will their animal forms (probably). But they're mostly likely not going to make it a fully animated photorealistic movie. Lion King got that because the original movie is among the most popular and beloved movies ever. And it was made by Disney, who can basically afford anything. Transformers/Beast Wars isn't going to get that treatment, especially since the brand is still recovering from TLK's disappointment. There will likely be live-action humans, and some on-location settings. Or they'll just turn it into a Pixar-level animated movie.
     
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    Now that would either be fine with me to see how this will work.
     
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    Technically, Lion King 2019 wasn't live-action. It was all done digitally through a computer but simply animated to look photoreal.

    Because I interned on that movie while I was in college. This is the movie you are referring to.

     
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    Maybe Beast Wars Maximals
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    vs G1 Predacons?
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    The probability of you being correct is SCARY high! It's basically going to come off as a rip-off of Dinozaurs...
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    Oh wait, will Spielberg be involved? If so, then I take that back... The human involvement will be a rip-off of "We're Back" Ugh, I'm sure someone could photosbop this to be Grimlock amd Wheelie... but what about "Hammer" and BW Megatron?
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    OR, thinking Spielberg... I actually adore this pic... but would hate if it were presented as a serious "film for the fans"
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    More than likely Kingdom is a test to see if today's kids respond to Beasts. Hasbro was going to do a BW 25th something anyway, so no troubles there. Paramount has such problems getting movies funded that they probably need the reassurance of a high profile toyline and Netflix season before they can get a BW movie into production.
     
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    TBH I don't really buy the idea that kids have to acclimate to beasts. Maybe it might be seen as a risk for a movie but I think for the toys fans are projecting the fandom divide over BW onto kids. The last two lines have had guys that turn into buildings, guys that come apart and put their body parts onto other people, guys that are ramps, regular cars, space cars, space jets, ICBM carriers that turn into vultures, and so on. Hasbro has not been concerned with acclimating kids to any of that weird shit all together. Animals are far from the weirdest thing in this trilogy.
     
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    Why are so many people just assuming that a Beast Wars movie means time travel and no humans? Sure the original Beast Wars was that way but since when has a movie adaptation ever actually followed what the source material did? It's like you people have never seen a movie before. You're setting yourselves up for a huge disappointment if you're expecting the movie to be exactly like the show.

    That said... I'm not expecting it to be exactly like the show. I am expecting it to be set in modern day because as a live action movie version of Beast Wars there needs to be actual LIVE ACTION in it... it can't be entirely CGI cause then it's still animation, it's just BETTER animation than the original... like the Lion King... why are people calling that a live action remake when it's entirely CGI... oh wait... there is ONE SHOT in the entire movie that's actually live action... And that movie is a huge disappointment.

    I wouldn't really be bothered by setting Beast Wars on present day Earth and adding in human characters. I've always imagined it that way anyway because that's literally the only way you can do a LIVE ACTION Beast Wars is if there are actually LIVE ACTION elements. The transformers have to be fully CGI... they might have some of the animals be real for certain scenes but real animals are notoriously difficult to work with and some of them are to dangerous to work with or are extinct so it would probably be easier to just go with photo realistic CGI even while the characters are in beast mode.

    The real issue with making a Beast Wars live action movie is not about the setting... it's about are they going to actually make realistic transformers this time or are we going to have another mess of garbage robots that don't look like anything having transformers trade marks slapped on them like the Micheal Bay films. That's what I don't want to see. I love Beast Wars but honestly if it looks like another one of those crappy Micheal Bay films I'm never going to see it. I've already given that shit more chances than it really deserves seeing everything from 2007 till the Bumblebee movie. I'm not getting my hopes up for a Beast Wars movie to actually be any good when they haven't even managed to make a good Transformers movie yet.

    I'm usually all for watching something before prejudging it... but when Transformers films have been producing the same garbage for YEARS there comes a time when I have to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. And for me that's Beast Wars... If they don't make some serious changes and prove to me that they can make a good movie I'm never going to see a live action Beast Wars that looks like this.

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    That's not Beast Wars, that's just more of Michael Bay's crap masquerading as a Transformer.

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    This is the movie I would actually want to see... Though the mock up of Primal in robot mode is poorly photo shopped into the imagine it gives a general impression of what the characters should look like... just make photo realistic versions of their original designs... Maybe change them up slightly so that the toys won't have visible robot kibble in beast mode anymore but only make changes as NEEDED to improve on those original designs while still keeping them recognizable.

    I don't want to see yet another generic looking robot magically transform into something and have a Transformer's name slapped on for no good reason... I mean Beast Machines technically already did that but at least that had a decent story to make up for the ugly designs. These live action films are just a series of random explosions with a poorly written nonsense plot to tie them all together. I'll have none of that nonsense in my Beast Wars movies thank you very much. So yeah Beast Wars should really never happen until they can make a good G1 movie first.

    No more monstrosities like this freak.

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    I never want to see anything like that THING again...

    Show me a movie like THIS!

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    Then maybe we'll talk about a live action Beast Wars. Can't do Beast Wars when they haven't even gotten their live action G1 films right yet.

    Bumblebee came close but that was just for a 5 minute scene... the rest of the movie was still Bayformers crap.
     
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    I'm not worried about it because a Beast Wars movie is never going to happen.
     
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    I think we can all agree that yes, they should. Especially Gary Chalk, David Kaye and Scott Mcneil. What I'm wondering is whether or not they will come back. Cause I get the feeling they won't be asked to come back. I'm assuming they'd much rather have some big names voicing them instead.

    What about you lot? Any predictions?
     
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