It was a horrible low-budget film, but, the guy in charge of promotion and advertising of the film, who got the rights, was a fan. The character was on-screen for about 5 minutes, played by a diminutive Vietnamese girl that doesn’t look anything like your image of a female Tarzan.
O: As for the book, your adaptation of the movie, I was impressed by how true you stayed.ĪDF: In 1972, somebody in Ballentine bought the rights to a really horrific Italian movie about a female Tarzan. That becomes an economic decision of the company. If Joe from Des Moines writes in and says Optimus Prime shouldn’t have lips, that’s not a decision for him to make. You have a 200, millions dollar movie, it’s always 2-3 years out of your life. Why should we bother to put that kind of effort into our picture? If people aren’t going to respect us for what we’re trying to do, why should we put up with it?” It’s something fans don’t’ realize. The fact that they took so much crap onto top of that, people in Hollywood, they take a look at that and say, “Look what DreamWorks did, and look what they took in response. I’m the last one to defend the Hollywood producers, but I thought they and Michael Bay were bending over backwards to listen to the fan websites, and yes, accommodating the people to whom, Transformers is canon. This has nothing to do with story but everything to do with simply appealing to that other tiny fragment of the demographic.
So when you make a film, one thing you have to do is figure out how to do this film so that it appeals to 20 other people without losing the other 20 people. That’s through sales, DVD, but that’s still a lot of money.
A general rule of thumb is that a film has to take in 2.5 times the cost to break even, so if you a 200 million dollar film, they have to make half a billion dollars. What those fans don’t understand is that in making a big 100 to 200 million dollar budgeted film – which is more than some countries earn per year – you have to make money back. This whole problem has a “Never spit in someone’s holy water” theme to it. If you can’t change it, there’s no point in dumping on you. But hopefully not as much flak as Bay.ĪDF: Not as much because people realized that I had to work with what they were doing and I couldn’t change it.
They had nothing but gripes and complaints about the style Bay chose to use to design them, saying “This isn’t how it should be.” Surely you encountered some of this stuff. O: As a Transformers fan, I can tell you that many of my peers saw the designs for the Transformers and flipped out. He’s made some big budget movies, some have done well, others haven’t, but that can be said about just about any director. I never met the man I don’t know him from Adam. A lot of people expected it to flop because they didn’t like Michael Bay – I don’t understand why people hate him. Most were surprised that it was such a good movie.
What are your thoughts about it?ĪDF: The success of the film was a big surprise to a lot of the people. O: Since we’ve opened the door to the real world of Science Fiction, let me ask you about your adaptation of the new Transformers movie. Transformers Exhibit at Children's Museum in Indianapolisīoard member Optimutt has posted an interview he has done with acclaimed science fiction author Alan Dean Foster, among whose works include both the novelization of the Transformers Movie and it's prequel "Ghosts of Yesterday." The relevant information pertaining to Transformers has been posted below:.Transformers The Last Knight Global Premiere Events ».Subscribe to Twincast/Podcast with iTunes.Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Movie News.Transformers: Rise of the Beast Movie News.