I’m not sure if I had heard about a new Transformers movie and had just forgot, or if I never and this is totally new. I certainly haven’t seen any commercials or press about it. Eitherway, a new Transformers movie is due out in July. This July. OK, I’m an idiot. I will write it off as being too excited to hear about a Transformers movie. The movie is for 2007, not 2006.

Reading through my regular nerd news I came across a report at GameSpot that links to a report about a leaked early script of the movie.

I read it through and albeit hearsay and an early version - if true - it sounds like the movie promises to disappoint in several areas…at least to Transformers fans.

One point inparticular that the inside review discusses is that Megatron is not going to be a gun, but a spaceship. If this is the path along which a lot of the movie will take, then I fear the movie’s attempt at cashing in on the current 80s retro-nostalgia rage will fail.

I remember seeing the first Transformers movie with my dad. I ate it up. Of course, I was like 6 or 7 at the time, but it was awesome nonetheless. I can only imagine how lost my dad was trying to understand what was going on.

I had such fond memories of the movie I asked for it for Christmas several years ago and Santa managed to deliver. Big mistake. I’m not saying it was a bad gift because I asked for it…but that movie is one that should stay as a memory because it is much better that way.

The movie is totally thrown together, even for a cartoon, and could/did only work when the Transformers cartoon was still on TV regularly. Only within that context would the movie make sense. Even with my knowledge of Transformers, I can only make about half of the movie connect to what I know. Maybe that’s just my memory failing or that the movie really didn’t do a good job of relating the TV series. I don’t know. The GI Joe “movie” was much better in keeping true to TV, although it was never released in theatres and instead was turned into a 4-episode special.
But that first film aside, I hope this new film at least draws on the original series and not the endless variations that were spawned over the past 10 years. From Beast Wars to Armada, none of the new ones compare to the old ones. But I am a tad bias.

But, the search continues now that this candle has been lit. To the internet I go in search of Transformers truth!