Transformers (Movie)


 * ''Transformers is an elaborate coverup in the movie continuity family.

Transformers will be a live-action movie released by Dreamworks, with Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Michael Bay. Its principle stars are Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, and Megan Fox. Character designs and special effects are being done by Industrial Light and Magic, the effects-wizards behind the Star Wars films.

Originally slated to release in the summer of 2006, the film will arrive in theatres on July 4, 2007. Coming soon

Prequel Material
IDW Publishing released a four issue limited comic series entitled 'Prime Directives' which chronicles the events which bring the Transformers to Earth. A novel, 'Ghosts of Yesterday', is about humankind's first venture into space and that event's importance to the Transformers choice to come to Earth.

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Cybertronian leaders Optimus Prime and Lord Megatron, no longer on the same page and whose ambitions for their race have changed, are now at war which each other. Their factions, the Autobots and Decepticons, battle for ownership of the Allspark, the source of their exsistence and a wealth of powerful secrets.

During the battle of Tyger Pax, Autobots Bumblebee and Arcee lead a contingent of troops to hold off the Decepticon forces while Optimus oversees an operation to send the Allspark out into space, away from Megatron. The Decepticons overtake Bumblebee's forces and torture the troops, hoping to learn the Allspark's location. Megatron arrives to force the answer out when he witnesses the Allspark blasting off. Bumblebee restrains him long enough for the Allspark to get away. Megatron, infuriated, rips out Bumblebee's voice box and transforms to begin pursuit of the Allspark.

Starscream assumes leadership of the Decepticons in Megatron's absence and commits to their cause of finding the Allspark. Megatron's fate, however, is not as much of an interest as his troops believe it to be.

Megatron tracks the Allspark back to Earth, but falls into the Artic Ocean only to become completely frozen and not unearthed until the 1700s. Discovered by Professor Witwicky, Megatron's frozen form is kept hidden and guarded by a covert division of the American military, named Sector Seven. However, exposure to Megatron seemingly drives Witwicky insane.

Research of Megatron's form leads Sector Seven to develop a space vessel capable of traveling outside of our Solar System. Launched simaltaneously as the Apollo 11 mission, the ship successfully travels out of our corner of the galaxy. It is noticed by both the Decepticon warship The Nemesis, as well as the Autobot's transport The Ark.

Bumblebee arrives on Earth and takes the form of a 1970s Camaro as a disguise as he begins to scout not only for the Allspark, but possibly Megatron as well.

'Sparkplug' Witwicky gives his 13 year old son, Sam, an antique pair of eyeglasses that belonged to an ancestor, an ancestor who happened to be the first human to encounter a Cybertronian. Sam see them as anything special and decides he may be able to sell them one day...

Storyline


The movie features a small, yellow Autobot named Bumblebee, who befriends the teenage human, Spike Witwicky. He and his fellow Autobots, the medic Ratchet, the rough-and-tumble cowboy Ironhide, and the smooth and super-cool Jazz (who has a car hood for a chest and a visor for eyes) are led by Optimus Prime, a red and blue robot with a distinctive mouthplate, windows in his chest and a grill in his stomach who transforms into a truck. Optimus Prime's nemesis is an evil, silver, bucket-headed robot named Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. The Decepticons' ranks include a pissed-off tank named Brawl, a mechanical scorpion named Scorponok, and a jet fighter named Starscream, who schemes to take command of the Decepticons from Megatron, as both sides battle over the legendary object that can grant new Transformer life.

This, of course, is nothing like Transformers.

Autobots

 * Bumblebee
 * Jazz
 * Ironhide
 * Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen)
 * Ratchet



Decepticons

 * Barricade (Keith David)
 * Blackout
 * Bonecrusher
 * Brawl
 * Frenzy
 * Megatron (Hugo Weaving)
 * Scorponok
 * Starscream

Humans

 * Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)
 * Mikaela (Megan Fox)
 * Lennox (Josh Duhamel)
 * Epps (Tyrese Gibson)
 * Simmons (John Turturro)
 * Secretary of State Keller (Jon Voight)
 * Ron Witwicky (Kevin Dunn)
 * Bobby Bolivia (Bernie Mac)