Transformers Updates: In the upcoming entry of our ongoing series, Ryan George unleashes what happened in the pitch meeting for Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers.
In the newest entry of our ongoing series, Screen Rant’s Ryan George unleashes what happened in the pitch meeting for Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers live-action movie.
The robots in disguise had been all around in one form or another since 1984 when the group launched with a hugely successful toy line, comic book, and cartoon. There was even an animated film in 1986, The Transformers: The Movie; although it was a critical and commercial bomb.
When film director Michael Bay has taken the project in 2007, Transformers were in something of a cultural lull. There are few rights issues with comic books, and the cartoons of that era were universally reported as a low0budget, low-quality affairs. Bay’s film revitalized the robots in disguise in the cultural lexicon, for the better or also worse.
What happened in the Transformers Pitch Meeting?
2007 Transformers film looks at the auto robots and Deceptions that brought their fight to Earth as they were searching for a mystical artifact known popularly as the Allspark.
The search routes them to a young man named Sam Witwicky who friends the speechless Autorobot scout Bumblebee. The relationship between a boy and his car makes up an emotional backbone of the film, and also it works surprisingly well, as does Bay’s sign third act chaos.
The film was the biggest hit for Paramount, though critics were somewhat divided on its success. Bay would be returning for a whopping four sequels, each louder and also more incoherent than the before entry.
Under Bay’s support, the Transformers films became a sort of shorthand for everything that went wrong with big-budget blockbuster filmmaking – flimsy plotting, no real live character development to speak of, scribbling CGI action, and the sense of humor of a 12-year old boy.
The group would eventually get back on track. That n 2018, director Travis Knight has taken on Bumblebee, a quasi –prequel to the Bay movies that focused almost exclusively on the youngest auto robot scout and his bond with Charlie Waston (Teenager). Critics are much kinder to be thoughtful, fun than any of Bay’s offerings, though the film was only a box office success.
There’s also still a lot about the next entry in the Transformers film franchise. The newest gossips suggest a connection to the classic Beast Wars iteration of the franchise from the 1990s, although it’s also said to be something of a sequence to Bumblebee as well. The direction the franchise takes to next, hopefully, left the seedier and sillier of the Bay films back of it.
