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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (June 2023)

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TitusTroy

Discussion Starter · Jun 22, 2021 (Edited)

The new Transformers film will be set in 1994...while its central characters are based in Brooklyn, the feature will move between New York and Machu Pichu...the production will also shoot in Peru, including a rare opportunity to film at the ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu (a logistical nightmare that director Steven Caple Jr said he and his production team are still working on)

the film will draw from the 'Beast Wars' animated series which focused on robots who transform themselves into animals as opposed to vehicles...as Caple explained, in the film, these transformers are “prehistoric animals that traveled through time and space, and we find them on Earth”...they include Airazor (who can become a falcon), Rhinox (who can become a rhinoceros), and Optimus Primal, a different character from Optimus Prime who can transform into a massive gorilla and is the leader of the beast-like Maximals

in the upcoming film, we’ll see the Beast War robots go to war with their natural enemies, the Predacons...

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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Revealed at Virtual Event With Director Steven Caple Jr.

The “Transformers” movie franchise will take on the “Beast Wars” storyline from the late 1990s in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” producer Lorenzo di Bonaven…

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MrGrey

· #2 · Sep 21, 2021 (Edited)

IMDB
Post-production : Expected June 9, 2023
Plot unknown. Reportedly based on the 'Transformers' spinoff 'Beast Wars' which feature robots that transform into robotic animals.

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TitusTroy

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 8, 2021

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Unveils A Look At The Autobot And Decepticon Vehicles

director Steven Caple Jr. unveiled the imagery of the metallic heroes and villains...

www.thedrive.com

Check Out The Cars of Transformers 7, from JDM Legends to V8 Muscle

These robots are in disguise—as some badass performance vehicles.

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Wheel Tire Car Vehicle Land vehicle

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WilliamR

· #4 · Nov 11, 2021

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has moved back a year and will now bow on June 9, 2023

www.hollywoodreporter.com

‘Star Trek,’ ‘Transformers’ Movies Pushed Back at Paramount

'Rise of the Beasts' has moved back a year, to 2023, while the next installment in the 'Trek' franchise shifts back six months, to December 2023.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

MrGrey

· #5 · Dec 5, 2021

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will no longer be opening on June 24, 2022 rather June 9, 2023.

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WilliamR

· #6 · 8 mo ago

‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Adds Michelle Yeoh & Pete Davidson

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‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Adds Michelle Yeoh & Pete Davidson

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Pete Davidson (Meet Cute) have joined the cast of Paramount’s upcoming film Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, based on Hasbro’s Tra…

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WilliamR

· #7 · 6 mo ago

‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Adds Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio & More; Watch Trailer

EXCLUSIVE: A slew have just boarded Paramount’s upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts including Peter Dinklage (as the voice of Scourge), Liza Koshy (as the voice of Arcee), John DiMaggio (as the voice of Stratosphere), David Sobolov (as Rhinox/Battletrap), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (as Nightbird), Cristo Fernández (as Wheeljack), and Tobe Nwigwe (as Reek).

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‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Adds Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio & More; Watch Trailer

EXCLUSIVE: A slew have just boarded Paramount’s upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts including Peter Dinklage (as the voice of Scourge), Liza Koshy (as the voice of Arcee), John DiMaggio…

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Official Trailer:

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MrGrey

· #8 · 6 mo ago

This looks so horrible and unfinished
bad voice over, CGI, Animation and composition.
Why would they release something like this?.
It literally looks worse than any teaser Ive seen for
any transformers movie, ever. i thought it was made for TV

Josh Z

· #9 · 6 mo ago

MrGrey said:
This looks so horrible and unfinished
bad voice over, CGI, Animation and composition.
Why would they release something like this?.
It literally looks worse than any teaser Ive seen for
any transformers movie, ever. i thought it was made for TV

I don't know, looks exactly the same as all the other ones to me. 🤷‍♂️

The thing that looks most ridiculous to me is the part (shown twice there) where the guy steps out of the speeding car mid-transformation and struts forward like it's nothing. The physics of that are totally absurd.

But, again, so was almost every scene in all the previous ones.

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MrGrey

· #10 · 6 mo ago

Look how much better the 15 years OLD CGI in Transformers (2007) looks compered the current movie, WTF😭.
The composition, lighting, animation and integration into the real world scene is legit A+ 15 years later.
4K

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Josh Z

· #11 · 6 mo ago

MrGrey said:
Look how much better the 15 years OLD CGI in Transformers (2007) looks compered the current movie, WTF😭.
The composition, lighting, animation and integration into the real world scene is legit A+ 15 years later.

I mean... meh.

Like everything Bay does, that's just a bunch of incomprehensible shaky-cam nonsense to me.

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WilliamR

· #12 · 4 mo ago

puddy77

· #13 · 1 mo ago

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MrGrey

· #14 · 1 mo ago

Bring back good looking VFX!

Transformers (2007)

Transformers 3 (2011)

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Russell Burrows

· #15 · 1 mo ago

MrGrey said:
Bring back good looking VFX!

Transformers (2007)

Transformers 3 (2011)

I'm wondering if it's due to the d.i. pipeline being 2k then uprezz to 4k?
Not that it matters long term as new a.i. tools are arriving on most studios as for example right now it's lots of weeks of photography to get a few promotional pics for the project.

Versus.
Just do the text prompts to get the wanted pictures with no hassle of needing locations, crews and other items that add time and costs.

Perhaps in five years in view of technology evolution it may only take twenty million to get a picture project that used to cost 200m?

MrGrey

· #16 · 1 mo ago

Russell Burrows said:
I'm wondering if it's due to the d.i. pipeline being 2k then uprezz to 4k?
Not that it matters long term as new a.i. tools are arriving on most studios as for example right now it's lots of weeks of photography to get a few promotional pics for the project.

Versus.
Just do the text prompts to get the wanted pictures with no hassle of needing locations, crews and other items that add time and costs.

Perhaps in five years in view of technology evolution it may only take twenty million to get a picture project that used to cost 200m?

Nah, like with recent marvel movies its getting more incredibly complex shots done in less time which always equals crap CGI no matter what you do. there are many articles about it especially with Marvel where artist have many complainants.

www.cnet.com

Marvel's VFX Artists Are Suffering -- and Starting to Speak Out

A real secret war is taking place behind the scenes with overworked, underpaid and underappreciated visual effects artists.

www.cnet.com

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/03/marvel-disney-visual-effects-artists-speak-out

www.cartoonbrew.com

VFX Artists Speak Out Against Unsustainable Work Conditions

Marvel may be the vfx industry bogeyman at present, but they're certainly not the only studio exploiting artists and technicians.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Josh Z

· #17 · 1 mo ago

If this takes place in 1994, and there's a worldwide apocalyptic battle with the planet-devouring Unicron, how does this jibe with the continuity of the prior movies, in which the existence of Transformers was not publicly known until the time of the 2007 film?

Even the Bumblebee movie, which is a prequel set in the '80s, is limited in scale and ends with the government covering up all the events that happened in it. You can't exactly cover up a monster robot planet coming to eat the Earth.

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Russell Burrows

· #18 · 1 mo ago

MrGrey said:
Nah, like with recent marvel movies its getting more incredibly complex shots done in less time which always equals crap CGI no matter what you do. there are many articles about it especially with Marvel where artist have many complainants.

Marvel's VFX Artists Are Suffering -- and Starting to Speak Out

A real secret war is taking place behind the scenes with overworked, underpaid and underappreciated visual effects artists.

www.cnet.com

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/03/marvel-disney-visual-effects-artists-speak-out

VFX Artists Speak Out Against Unsustainable Work Conditions

Marvel may be the vfx industry bogeyman at present, but they're certainly not the only studio exploiting artists and technicians.

www.cartoonbrew.com

Thanks.
Very interesting.

What worries me is that it's going to correct to far lower costs but with many out of work professionals in a year or two.

The DC by gucci made by gpt4 will evolve to the point where vfx for a movie becomes a few text prompts in a few years.
That's a worry for the vfx professionals but as a consumer I like the idea of telling a more advanced a.i. like gpt6 that I want a TV show from a book series and a few text entries and I have a tv show li,e say book series am.trak. Wars.

Sigh the tablet text is going funny again, sorry.

TitusTroy

Discussion Starter · #19 · 1 mo ago

I'm sure this will make a nice demo 4K disc but I can't say I'm all that excited for another Transformers movie...the first movie was cool especially with the transformations and Peter Cullen's iconic voice but then the sequels all started to blend together as they just added more and more crazy Transformers...now they're doing Transformer King Kong?...is Transformer Godzilla going to be in the next movie?

TurkeyTom

· #20 · 1 mo ago

Russell Burrows said:
Thanks.
Very interesting.

What worries me is that it's going to correct to far lower costs but with many out of work professionals in a year or two.

The DC by gucci made by gpt4 will evolve to the point where vfx for a movie becomes a few text prompts in a few years.
That's a worry for the vfx professionals but as a consumer I like the idea of telling a more advanced a.i. like gpt6 that I want a TV show from a book series and a few text entries and I have a tv show li,e say book series am.trak. Wars.

Sigh the tablet text is going funny again, sorry.

Personally I don't think you'll ever be able to get fully developed VFX with some text prompts. There is still going to need to be artists involved at various levels, some more so than others. There's some interesting work being done with "AI" VFX on YouTube like with Corridor Digital and others, but if you watch the behind the scenes there's still a ton they have to do to get things to work together cohesively.

I think these tools will take away a lot of the grunt work, but you'll still always need someone to put the finishing (and most important) touches on shots/CGI/etc.

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