Bay pulling pranks on TRANSFORMERS fanboys?
Posted by Will Reynolds
Michael Bay is one mischievous scamp!
Word comes from Rotten Tomatoes (via Superhero Hype) that the director will deliberately release false information to fans via the net to throw them off the scent of any genuine Transformers 2 news.
“One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more,” Bay said. “We’re going to leak a lot of false information all over the place.
“I now know their game,” cackled the director from his underground lair.
“They’re going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We’ve got scripts and treatments written up that we’re going to leak. No one’s going to know.”
A while back there was a treatment floating around which we posted here. According to Bay, the thing isn’t legit:
“There’s one out that’s fake right now. There are going to be many others.”
Why?
Why would Bay waste his, his screenwriters and the fans time doing this? If I were him I’d just concentrate on making the best movie possible and not pulling pranks on the hands that feed.
If the first film is anything to go by then, pending a strike resolution, they need all the time they can get to work on scripting
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The “misinformation” is that it will be any good.
But the braindead morons who loved the first one won’t care. Geez, I wish I could find these people and put them on a mailing list. I’d have a TON of easy sales for the most worthless crap.
“But the brain dead morons who loved the first one won’t care.”
Well, I like to think of myself as far from brain dead while at the same time loving my child years with Turtles, Ghostbusters, and Transformers. I went in to the movie expecting Robot-on-robot action. That’s it. There was no faith in the script or directing even though I think Bay knows how to blow up stuff really well.
After sitting through The Transformers (Bay’s), I came out suprised at how awesome the movie is. Watched it 3 times the first week it came out on dvd, wanting to watch it again this week.
Just because it’s not “intelligent” enough for you, doesn’t mean it’s a shitty movie.
On-topic: Good idea, I like it when directors/writers/producers spread around lies about the movie. Gives us some thing to read, talk about, and the makers of said movie can go off of what the message boards say about what they “leaked”.
*shrugs* To each their own.
the best part of the movie was hearing optimus again and seeing him on the big screen. i myself sort of liked the movie but not enough for repeat viewings. i think this is a good tactic for bay and his crew, but the possible backfire could be what if he puts out false information that sounds good and possibly better than the finished product?