Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is akin to an $800 million grossing bad penny. The thing won’t go away! Speaking to THR during a roundtable discussion of screenwriters responsible for the coming batch of summer blockbusters, Revenge of the Fallen scribes Ehren Kruger (who also wrote Transformers: Dark of the Moon) and Roberto Orci were once again faced with answering for the derisible 2009 sequel.
As you may recall, the legacy of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is so tarnished that even previously cheerleading director Michael Bay has basically disowned his work. As the director told Empire:
“We made some mistakes.The real fault with [Transformers 2] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers’ strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you’ve got to have a story in three weeks.”
It certainly must be, judging from the plot and dialogue in Transformers 2. Not that Orci and Kruger have any hard feelings — in fact, they seem surprised the film happened at all.
Orci: Two weeks before the [2007-08 writers] strike, we handed him a 30-page treatment, then he went off, he turned it into 70 pages. He started prepping the movie, and because of the time constraints he got totally locked in. We were locked in a hotel room for three months because the strike had just ended, and it was five blocks from Michael’s office. So it was me, Ehren and Alex [Kurtzman] in a hotel room every day so he could drop by at noon, see what we had, take pages, and then go prep the movie because it’s gotta go shoot!
Kruger: Many of those things, under a normal process, would have been considered a first draft outline. And then suddenly you’re locked into some of those things. And at that point it becomes very difficult — and very expensive — to try to rework macro ideas.
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of all time, not some crappy robot movie.
Also, shouldn't it be ROTFL, Also Meghan Fox is eye candy thats it 2 million other actresses who could replace her.Lets hope bay leaves out the Giant Devastator ball s, the sugar hill gang robots, the cursing minicons, the fem-bots and my favorite the old bearded robot with a cane.Revenge of the Fallen was one of the absolute worst movies I've seen NOT because it wasn't an Academy Award winner, but because it didn't come close to being a coherent story. Cavemen scratchings on walls have more coherent storylines and are more emotionally compelling than what Michael Bay put up on film in that movie.
GTO
