Words from Don Murphy - On RoTF, his other films, and ROTF Marketing...

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Master Fwiffo, Dec 7, 2008.

  1. Satomiblood

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    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?
     
  2. Angelophile1

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    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...
     
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    ......*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.
     
  4. Nevermore

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    All those movies are part of Michael Bay's AWESOME Misinformation Campaign™ as well.
     
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    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.
     
  6. Rikerwota

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    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... :p 
     
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    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.`
     
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  9. OmegaVPrime

    OmegaVPrime Uhm, yea? So what?

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    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!! :cry 
     
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    Daredevil?
     
  11. OmegaVPrime

    OmegaVPrime Uhm, yea? So what?

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    this guy is a moron.
     
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    [QUOTE="Don Murphy]Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen has finished shooting and is in the capable hands of Michael Bay and Industrial Light and Magic.[/QUOTE]

    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?
     
  15. C.W. McConvoy

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    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.
     
  16. Ash from Carolina

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    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.
     
  17. Mastodon

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    Does anyone even care about what this slug has to say?