Did you see that quote from Bay in the article?
How could I miss it? It's plastered all over every article about it ever. Jeez. That's the problem. Bay has the tastes of a slow witted 10 year old. No wonder why he's a bad director. 10 year olds shouldn't direct films.
Lol. Just kidding. But seriously though, I'm having flashbacks to an old episode of Transformers where the Autobots go to Hollywood and are forced to play stunt cars in pointless explosion scenes because a clueless director doesn't recognize their acting potential. Kind of eerie when you think about it, lol.
I resign myself to the fact that, like everything else in the Transformers mythology, it's basically to sell toys. But Hasbro was so much smarter then. The marketing department came up with a complex and amazing back story for essentially mismatched, yet similar, toylines from another country, and built a whole world through comic books and animation.
Bay
clearly can't make up his mind if he's making a Transformers movie or a G.I. Joe movie. There was NO call to give the whole thing an Afghan War tie in. No wonder why Battleship was against alien forces. They wanted to have an upbeat, uber patriotic message that doesn't make itself look like pro-war propaganda. That's "liberal" Hollywood for you.
Hopefully the movie will get made, but with a different staff. I like how Peter Laird defended the movie at first, then basically said he hated the idea, but it was out of his hands.
But lemme tell you this. The TMNT franchise went through some real crap before Nick bought them out. And not because of 4Kids, it's the ONE thing those guys did right... they're so bad at business, it's no wonder they're bankrupt. Playmates kept CONSTANTLY meddling in the series. After all, they wanted to sell toys. Other than the fact they flooded the market with idiotic variants (they had some germane to the cartoon series, but shelved and retooled them), they screwed up the production by forcing Fast Forward before the 5th season (which was toyetic in its own right), and then dumping Fast Forward because the toys didn't sell. Mainly because they cam,e out
just before the movie line and they were desperate to dump stock to make way for it. They pushed the movie toys hard with even dumber variants, all the while trying to get another TMNT series off the ground. We got the transition series, Back to the Sewers (after 2 really bad ideas and one really good idea that would have better worked as a reboot), and because Playmates pretty much gave up on TMNT toys at that point (after raising a stink that NECA was making TMNT anniversary figures, designing their own, and NOT releasing them), they jumped abord the hilarious failure of a Terminator Salvation franchise and Star Trek toys that yet to have been fully cleared out. And we had a whole year of nothing to look forward to, and Nick bought the license then and there.
Not to mention the problems with the TMNT movie follow up. The studio wanted a dopey comedy movie, and Laird wanted none of that. They couldn't come to a consensus with the script, the license expired... and it was for the best, because the state Imagi was in, we wouldn't have got it anyway.
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