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Bat wrote:

"Transformers: The Sequel."

It could happen.

Talking with Entertainment Weekly recently, director Michael Bay was briefly questioned about sequel possibilities and what he's doing next. Here's an excerpt:

How are you sitting with the idea of directing another Transformers movie?

Let's see how this one does. I've got a lot of ideas for the next one. There's a lot of really cool, big robot stuff that I had in my head that we didn't do. [..]

I doubt that.

What's wrong? I thought the movie was teh awesome. Besides, if they make a sequel, they don't have to bother with that whole introduction thing; they can jump straight to the good stuff. (compare spidermans 1 and 2)

I liked it.  Reviews were pretty good, and it did well at the box office if I recall?

Nicholas D. Wolfwood wrote:

if there is another transformers movie there needs to be a different director

and the script needs to be peer reviewed by people who havent written any crappy movies ever

then let me be the first one to start wishful thinking with

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Last edited by elpato84 (2007-07-10 2:44 pm)

I hate to say it, but he's doing lots of (relatively) smart things with this movie. It's a real-life version of the Producers. Except he hasn't sung yet, and I think he won't go to jail if this succeeds.

ZOMG! Now it's going the other way... make it stop!

Boll 'Tunnels' Into Game Business

The filmmaker that so many gamers love to hate is now getting involved in making games, not just game-based movies. Boll, who recently filmed a Vietnam war movie called Tunnel Rats, is partnering with Replay Studios to create a game based on the film. Details inside...

VANCOUVER--After years of taking video games like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege, Postal and Far Cry to the big screen, writer/director/producer Uwe Boll is now taking a property in the opposite direction, GameDaily BIZ can exclusively reveal. Boll filmed Tunnel Rats, an original Vietnam war movie set in 1967, earlier this year in South Africa. He's financing a new first-person shooter based on the film, which German developer Replay Studios is currently creating using its internal Replay Engine most recently seen at E3 in the new WWII game Sabotage at Gamecock's Hotel California suite. Tunnel Rats will ship for Xbox 360 and PC.

"Tunnel Rats is a first-person shooter set during the Vietnam War that tells the story of a young G.I. who escapes from a POW camp and journeys through a heavily fortified valley in the Cu Chi province," said Marc Moehring Managing Director and Co-Founder, Replay Studios. "It not only depicts his actual physical path through the merciless jungle and claustrophobic, trap-ridden tunnels, but also his emotional and psychological journey as the horrors he witnesses--and participates in--slowly deprive him of his ideals, morals and sanity."

::goes to lighten mood by watching Director's Cut of Das Boot::

Bat wrote:

ZOMG! Now it's going the other way... make it stop!

Boll 'Tunnels' Into Game Business

The filmmaker that so many gamers love to hate is now getting involved in making games, not just game-based movies. Boll, who recently filmed a Vietnam war movie called Tunnel Rats, is partnering with Replay Studios to create a game based on the film. Details inside...

VANCOUVER--After years of taking video games like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege, Postal and Far Cry to the big screen, writer/director/producer Uwe Boll is now taking a property in the opposite direction, GameDaily BIZ can exclusively reveal. Boll filmed Tunnel Rats, an original Vietnam war movie set in 1967, earlier this year in South Africa. He's financing a new first-person shooter based on the film, which German developer Replay Studios is currently creating using its internal Replay Engine most recently seen at E3 in the new WWII game Sabotage at Gamecock's Hotel California suite. Tunnel Rats will ship for Xbox 360 and PC.

"Tunnel Rats is a first-person shooter set during the Vietnam War that tells the story of a young G.I. who escapes from a POW camp and journeys through a heavily fortified valley in the Cu Chi province," said Marc Moehring Managing Director and Co-Founder, Replay Studios. "It not only depicts his actual physical path through the merciless jungle and claustrophobic, trap-ridden tunnels, but also his emotional and psychological journey as the horrors he witnesses--and participates in--slowly deprive him of his ideals, morals and sanity."

::goes to lighten mood by watching Director's Cut of Das Boot::

Hey! A Nam game!

Now I'll get to experience what I just barely missed.

yeah my old roommates still play perfect dark multiplayer split screen.  (n64 version).  And it's ok, but as everyone knows it's just goldeneye.  And at the time PC FPS was way ahead, so it was more of "this is awesome" to anyone now into PC gaming.  But I was more referring to the single player since max payne has no multiplayer heh, though it would be interesting if they could.  Just remove bullet time and let people go nuts.  If rockstar put out like a five dollar online add-on with a few bigger versions of the deadman maps I'd buy it.  Hell with some of the "movie" themed mods I can play deadman for hours (que Trip Like I Do) ahhh good times.

who wants to spent 2 hours listening to humans whine and night elves be all persnickity?

Better than Doom?.. that'll be tough.

Warcraft Movie: First Concept Art, 2009 Release, Better than "Doom"
Aug 04, 2007 3:08pm CST

Blizzard and its filmic partner Legendary Pictures today revealed a few more details of their upcoming live-action movie based on the Warcraft franchise.
Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull described the movie as "big," with a budget of over $100 million. "We're not gonna make some cheesy little.. I don't even know what a good example is," he said. Shouts of "Doom" erupted from the crowd. "I'm not gonna give any examples," Tull said after a laugh.

"We're shooting for 2009," Tull added, before handing the stage over to Blizzard creative director Chris Metzen, who immediately began to outline the direction of the project.

"Honestly, the story that we're running with at this point, we wanted it to be relevant to the experience of WoW players," Metzen said. "Not necessarily buried in thousands of years of continuity. We wanted it to be, well, recent. The story takes place about a year before WoW begins. You're likely to see a lot of races you've played, the lands you know. The story really is a number of main plot points kind of rolled into a really strong two, two and a half hour tale."

In terms of specifics, Metzen revealed that there will be a new central hero character, that he described as "pretty bad ass."

Ooh.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48296

@ Bat's quote --

pretty bad ass?  They claimed the whole "mysterious" thing they were working on for this winter was something "Really" cool, when it's just another WoW expansion that doesn't add anything people have been asking for since before BC.

And I'd say the Horde side stories are much more interesting.  What do we have for alliance?  Crazy old wizard opens dark portal, people die fight back get trapped on other side, enslave orcs, orcs escape, plague comes, people turn to zombies, prince goes crazy, kills zombies and people, becomes zombie-like.

But enough on that, "better than Doom?"  Cmon, the original mario brothers movie was better than Doom.

while I'm not a big fan of his movies I'll admit he is a good director, he just seems to do plots that don't entertain me.  Cerainly he could have been a bit more articulate and affirmative in his statements?

like the cinematography and effects are great is all I'm saying, at least better than most of what I see, and he's not bad at editing.

Which is sad in many ways that he is above the average, though no where near 300, Hot Fuzz caliber

What's sad is that he's neither cinematographer, nor editor, nor FX guy. He's a former director of commercials and music videos.

That that's also common these days is even sadder.