Spielberg to direct Transformers Movie

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=56835&cat=World

can i get a hell yea!

For one second I was afraid Uwe Boll or paul Anderson might get their dirty hands on this and fuck it up as usual.

I was gunning for Kevin Smith

The article doesn't say that he's directing it - I have heard for a while that he was on board to produce it. I haven't heard anything for sure about him directing though...

cmon, I think we all know that Tarantino deserves this.

and we all know this live action adaptation will suck too... and yet I'm excited anyway!

I'd love to see ridley scott take a swing... but I think spielberg would be a good choice, actually. he can do sci fi, he can do "family", he can do awesome special effects.

Use a high caliber, please.

Sometimes I wish that this harsh modern world would stop raping the cartoons of my childhood.

if you can find that much meaning in a 30 minute toy commercial, I think you can probably convince yourself to look the other way when they make a live action adaptation. I mean, it was a money machine from the get go, how are they going to fuck it up? not to kick you while you're down or anything...

he can do sci fi

did you see AI: Artificle Intelligence
???????

i think he lost the Close Encounters magic

AI was good for two acts and minority report wasn't bad at all *waits to be crucified by people that read the book*

i saw AI yesterday, it was so mindnumbingly boring that it shut it down like minutes before the ending, i just couldn't take it anymore.

i also thought the kid robot was a unfortunate freak that should have been destroyed in like the first half hour of the movie not some loveable pinokio.

fuck....and i mean double fuck Steven Spielberg...

what he did to AI is just wrong...

i wish Stanley Kubrick would have been alive to do that movie....i'm sure Spielberg will fuck up every movie he will ever touch cause he always has.

after reading the article...he is directing war of the worlds???

another remake??

is anyone else appalled at this or am i the only one?

At least Ministry was in it... that was the highlight for me!

Same here. Too bad you can't really tell it's Al under that mask unless you've seen the video for What About Us?

he's only exec-producer for the "Transformers" movie - i.e. no real responsibility for the technical making of aspects, rather responsible for the legal and business side of the production as a whole. It does have Tom Rogers ("CatWoman" & "The Core" amongst others - yikes) down for the screenplay though... No Director attached or announced

Spielberg's next Directing gigs are "Vengeance" (about the 1972 Olympics terrorist attack) and "Indian Jones 4"

imdb listing

"War of The Worlds" has been filming for some time (in fact I think it's nearly done, if not completed by now)

same Director of Photography (Janusz Kaminski) and Production Designer (Rick Carter) as nearly all of Spielberg's recent ones. Tom Cruise Starring, ILM doing the visual effects etc. etc.

the guy who wrote catwoman helped write it?

i hope that they salvage it and put some "edge" into it, rather than it just being a by-the-numbers-blockbuster. and the less spielberg is involved, the better, or it will just turn into another film of his aimed at the lowest-common denominator.

The book? for which one... both were based on short stories... but yeah... I thought AI went to preachy, it was okay... but it was Kubrick's vision that inspired it too, it strayed far from Aldiss' text, as for Minority Report I liked it... and I read the story too.

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Oops... forgot the topic of the thread... hmm... live action Transformers... After seeing the pitiful adaptations of other cartoons into cinema veritas, I can't say I'm looking forward to it with baited breath. I mean look at the Flinstones, Josie and the Pussycats and Fat Albert... but if anyone can pull it off.. SS can.

I'm looking for a live action smurfs movie.... that would rawk!

[Edited on Dec 31, 2004 by Sebilrazen]

Minority Report was actually a short story. And yes, it was revolting the way Speilberg took a story that was messing with the fatalism and free will argument and totaly copped out on it like he does with everything he touches. Why he even bothered to translate a Philip K. Dick story into a movie i have no idea. I can't think of two people who have less in common philisophiccally than these two. Dick was a thinker. Speilberg is a wad of bubble gum.

hahahaha hell no

john woo, james cameron or etc,
a director of action films please

I can't see a good american adaptation of transformer,
hell they fucked up godzilla

[Edited on Jan 03, 2005 by fiendish]

Gee, I was hoping for David Lynch.

I think he's working on Thundercats. It's more his style.