"IGN's own Roth Cornet pitched the idea of "Transformers in space" to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who said he'd previously discussed that possibility with director Michael Bay and other creatives at Paramount."

"We've debated space," he said. "We've debated whether we should ever shoot anything in space or not, and I don't think we've come to that conclusion.

"There are attractive notions to it, and unattractive," he continued. "I think the unattractive, or the trick of it, is that we want our humans with us. So going to space might force an all-Transformers movie, and while I think some fans would love that, I think other fans would be disappointed they don't have humans. So I think that's the creative decision we've got to face about that idea."

Producer Speculates on Transformers in Space - IGN

What do you all think, would you like seeing Transformers going into space for the next sequel?

 

Well, if OP does done how leave the planet at the end of the movie, I'd say something has to take place in Space lol

 

They can keep 'their humans', I want Transformers in their element and not with fleshies.

 

Seems expensive!

 

I bet you if they did a " everyone donate to making a full CGI transformers movie" event, they would get the money in no time lol. I have a few thousand I'd be willing to donate  

 

Depends who'd directed it, if Michael Bay's directing, I'm pretty sure the donation wouldn't be met.

 

I don't think we need the TF movies to go into space. TFs needs that sense of scale from being on Earth.

 

He also said there might not be a new trilogy...

The Escapist : Forums : The News Room : Second Transformers Trilogy Not a Done Deal Says Producer

He is seriously screwing with my brain at the moment. xD

 

yeah the producer was saying this too in a recent interview.

when they mentioned "trilogy" at first i thought they were doing some very closely tied together movies. exciting. but they just mean possibly 3 movies. like we had before that are only kind of related.

 

I didn't want to make a new thread on this but Michael Bay posted a small detail about the movie, "What makes the IMAX version of this film so different is that 60 percent of the movie opens up and fills the whole IMAX screen." That's about 96 minutes of IMAX footage.

MICHAEL BAY TALKS TRANSFORMERS 4 AND IMAX 3D : Michael Bay Dot Com

 

What fans care about humans in transformers

 

Apparently the ones in Youtube comments asking "Where's Shia?" or "Where's Megan Fox"

 

Would more vehicle mode action cut costs though?

 

Vehicle modes in...space? I really don't think that would make any difference.

 

When I mean space I also mean other planets, space stations etc.

Is it more expensive animating them in robot mode is what I'm trying to get out.

 

Every time Transformers series go into space, their production value declines.

There has been no exception to this.

 

Absolutely not. Transformers jumped the shark in G1 when they tried, and failed miserably, to turn it into a space opera.

Transformers is, and always should be, about the Transformers on earth. They should be turning into current-day earth vehicles, with plots centered here on earth, using disguises to pass unnoticed among the humans when they need to.

Transformers isn't some generic stupid robot mecha.

Transformers should be limited to two planets: Cybertron and Earth.

The best possible use of the Transformers license in a live action setting would be along the lines of the first season of the G1 cartoon: Autobots and Decepticons crash on earth. Decepticons go raiding for various sources of energy. Autobots gain the support of the earth governments, in secret, which supplies them with energy. That way, we can have multiple sequels on earth, with the Autobots stopping each new decepticon plot....be it hijacking nuclear warheads and setting them all off to harvest, or some crazy hadron collider plot, or whatever else the Cons could think up to get enough energy to bridge back to Cybertron. It would also allow for some fun human characters, namely the agents, servicemen, and politicians who are in-the-know and who interact with the Autobots and supply them with information and energy. We wouldn't have to suffer through another "boy and his car" type scenario, which frankly just doesn't ring true to me because the stakes are far too high for everything to pivot on some hormone charged 16 year old kid and his hand-me-down glasses.

Intersperse some secondary plotlines of what's still happening back on Cybertron, with Shockwave and maybe Magnus leading things there, and you have a perfect bunch of movies. Multiple plotlines, avoids McGuffins, has cool REAL earth vehicles, and some Cybertron action because that's important too. Plus introducing the cybertron characters back on cybertron would make it very exciting if somebody built a space bridge and some of the characters crossed over to earth in the 2nd or 3rd movie.

When Transformers does get a reboot, I REALLY REALLY hope that they go with something like that. I like the current movieverse, but it definitely could have gone in a better direction, overall plot wise. They needed to keep it simpler...a simple fight over resources. I'm actually surprised they didn't....the fight over resources and energy is something that would really resonate with audiences, because so much of what people see on the news every day is driven by that very thing. You could get some really good drama and hard choices out of such a plotline.

 

Yes Sir

 

That's true but I don't think it would have any major impact on the production value, seeing that the foreign environment would have to be animated, which may include indigenous alien species.

 

limited space action, yes, but it should tie back into earth.

Galvatron on the rampage, Optimus meeting Quintessons/Primus/Unicron or whoever the creator is and returning in a badasser form...maybe adding Star Saber, or Optimus finding more lost Autobots or something...

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