Optimus Prime faces off against Bone Crusher in TRANSFORMERS(2007).
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Producer Talks G.I JOE and TRANSFORMERS 2
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Source: Robert Sanchez at IESB
Our friend Robert Sanchez over at IESB has published a decent interview with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, a man who's working on two high profile projects for Paramount & Dreamworks, G.I Joe and Transformers 2. For "Joe", the producer explained that production will begin in five weeks and that we can expect more casting announcements from now to that day. Here's a bit of the interview.
It's a tricky balance. One, you want to keep the story elements secret. I can say this very convincingly, if you're a Joe vs. Cobra fan, then you will be feel incredibly happy about the movie... I would say a Batman Begins. Well, I would say this, it would be more like the original Batman in the sense that you know, it's really taking a comic book, have you seen the original cartoon movie? The Joe movie?... If you would you say the original GI Joe movie was like the original Batman movie with Jack Nicholson then I would say this is like Batman Begins.
For next robot adventure, he again told us that production is waiting on the WGA strike. They hope to get production rolling on June 2, 2008 but as you know, this is around the time that SAG/DGA also have contracts expiring with AMPTP. As such, a lot of unknowns are in the air...
We're nowhere because of the strike, we won't know until we come back. We have a very fine outline and we know exactly where we want go with the movie but until this writers strike comes back, we'll find out exactly where we are. Michael is completely on top of every detail. He's designed a lot of great stuff already. He's got a lot of great sequences imagined but you know, he needs some writers to work with before he's ready to go, so I would say June 2nd is an unofficial start, it's the target date we'd like to go for but, you know, we've got to get some writers to help us.
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Transformers 2 will hit theaters June 26, 2009.
G.I Joe will hit theaters August 7, 2009.
