Set for release on July 3, 'Transformers' reunites Orci with Michael Bay, who directed The Island. Latino Review recently sat down with Orci at a Los Angeles hotel for an exclusive one-on-one interview.
Latino Review: What made you say, 'OK, I want to write this?'
Orci: Spielberg. Just when he agreed that it had to have a human point of view. There had to be more than just robots fighting. When he agreed that (it should be) like 'Close Encounters' which is a big spectacle, but it's about a man disintegrating. We wanted to make sure there was an equally valid human experience. It didn't have to be that deep necessarily, but I wanted it to be something real. And so when he said, 'A boy and his car,' and we realized OK the point of view was, 'We were all there; get your first license, get your first car. What does that mean?' That means maybe the girl or the boy, it means independence, it means getting away from your parents for the first time, it means... you know? We knew that that was enough of an emotional anchor, even if you don't say it out loud, that that it was interesting enough for us to continue on. And basically that phrase did it.
Latino Review: How much of the animated series from back then did you want to incorporate into this?
Orci: You know, there's a lot of the moments in the movie that are inspirations, like seeing Hoover Dam; that was one of the images from one of the fights that they had. You mean in terms of story? We knew wanted to keep an element of the background very much intact. Cybertron, fight for energy, Optimus and Megatron, some of the main characters on each side. So we tried to stay as true to the history as we could without it getting in the way of what it needed to be today. So if something didn't work in live action, that's when we would examine it, but we didn't feel like had to reinvent the wheel just to be clever. The things that worked, work still.
There's a whole lot more in this extensive interview.
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