It turns out that Michael Bay is just as excited about the upcoming Transformers movie as we are and, with the filming set to begin in the coming weeks, the director is as giddy as a boy.
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The good people over at AICN have recently stopped in with Michael Bay and, besides confirming the casting rumor from IGN, were able to see some of the latest conceptual art and animatics. To top it off, Michael Bay even suggests some story elements to the film; even though he swore he wouldn't.
It was around here that I got my first look at Optimus Prime. I saw three concept art pieces on Optimus. The first was a headshot. He is blue, like the cartoon, but I noticed a lack of red in the early stuff I saw. Mostly steel gray and blue. Not sure what I think about that.
It was very obvious to me that Bay was getting excited about the project as he was revealing these little bits to me, which was very cool to see. Mostly because the more excited he got, the more he wanted to share about the film. He picked another page and slid it to me and told me that when he was first approached he wasn't sure about the movie, thinking it would just a giant toy commercial. What hooked him was Shia LaBeouf's character, a teen that is getting his first car. He said that rite of passage for a teenage boy, that of getting your first car, is something he connected with and gave him a human angle to get involved emotionally with the story.
The report goes into detail on a ten-minute animatic that shows a Decepticon attacking troops.
Transformers could be one of the most unbelievable films we have ever seen. However, let's wait for some test shots before we get too far ahead of ourselves.
Check out the entire report on Transformers over at AICN.
Transformers release date is set for July 4th, 2007.
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