Optimus Prime in TRANSFORMERS (2007).
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Scott Farrar Talks TRANSFORMERS 2
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Monday, October 01, 2007
Source: Sci Fi Wire
The visual effects supervisor and second unit director of TRANSFORMERS, the smash hit earlier this summer for Paramount and Dreamworks, talked the sequel a bit with Sci Fi Wire while on a visit to ILM.
"We want to improve on some of the processes that we did," Ferrar said in an interview at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, where the film's transforming robots were created. "I think what we're going to do is get faster and know our problems sooner and quicker. And then, of course, I know Michael's always thinking about new, crazy actions. And we're open to that."
After discussing the monumental task of creating the effects for the first film, Farrar groaned and fell off his chair in jest when asked about the sequel, which was announced last week with an anticipated release date of June 26, 2009.
"It's a circus, and they're going to raise the tight-wire walker a little bit higher next time," he said. "But it's all going to be dramatic. I think the commitment is not to just chuck out a sequel. The commitment is—and this makes us really happy here—that it's a deep story. There are lots of layers to the story of all these Decepticons, everybody. And so they want to really keep the characters rich."
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TRANSFORMERS 2 hits theaters everywhere June 26, 2009.
