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[Don Murphy]

Hey there here's what we got----

Transformers- we're cloing in on a writer and choosing to go with a younger guy who grew up with the mythology.like all of you fans. Should be announced in the coming weeks. Dreamworks and Spielberg very much still want the film for Summer '06 so it'll be hard- but GOOD.

Also on the main site under "Human Stuff" "Make Don Murphy Happy" I've listed a bunch of very obscure stuff that I've been looking for for like forever. If any of you can help, email me at my hotmail account.

Under this thread I'd like to hear replies to the following-

"In the 1980s I grew up on Transformers. I loved GI Joe and dug He Man. I also liked a hell of a lot.....????"

What kind of books, comics or properties does the Transformers generation want to see make it to the big screen?

[Cyclonus31]

[quote]Originally posted by Don Murphy
Hey there here's what we got----

Transformers- we're cloing in on a writer and choosing to go with a younger guy who grew up with the mythology.like all of you fans. Should be announced in the coming weeks. Dreamworks and Spielberg very much still want the film for Summer '06 so it'll be hard- but GOOD.

Also on the main site under "Human Stuff" "Make Don Murphy Happy" I've listed a bunch of very obscure stuff that I've been looking for for like forever. If any of you can help, email me at my hotmail account.

Under this thread I'd like to hear replies to the following-

"In the 1980s I grew up on Transformers. I loved GI Joe and dug He Man. I also liked a hell of a lot.....????"

What kind of books, comics or properties does the Transformers generation want to see make it to the big screen? [/QUOTE

seems like a treasure hunt! I'm game. I'll see if I can find anything.

You said Books, comics or properties that we'd like to see? When you say properties...do you mean places? We came up with a decent list of places on one of the threads:

http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showt...?threadid=1257

As for the rest of the question. I'm 31 now. Grew up in the 80s to Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, MASK, Star Blazers, G-Force...you name it, I probably seen it. Loved the cartoon of Transformers as I was a die-hard G-1 enthusiast. Never really watched any of the other incarnations of the TFs. I tried, but it just wasn't the same.

[Blair]

Grew up in the 90's, actually. I watched whatever rerun of the show I could and rented the tape of Transformers: The Movie many a times, and I absolutely loved Beast Wars. I know you won't have any animal Transformers in this movie*, but you could learn a thing or two from Beast Wars.

Anyway, back in my day, there were more superhero cartoons than you could shake a Batarang at. The best of them were Batman: The Animated Series (listen to Mark Hamill's performance as the Joker and tell me you don't want him to be Starscream), Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and the X-Men and Spiderman show's on FOX. Superhero cartoons are my favourite kind, because all your favourite heroes and villains up there walking and talking. I eagerly awaited the next Spidey episode the way I did for the first Spidey movie. Ahh, the good old days.

*Oh, but please do consider having the Dinobots and the Insecticons in the sequel! It wouldn't be the same without them.

[SAJse]

I'm in two minds about this writer. On the one hand, I'm glad it's someone with a good grasp on the mythos. On the other hand, I'm not sure I like the idea of a fanboy writing for this movie. Especially a young guy working to this deadline. Saying that, I'm sure you wouldn't choose someone inexperienced to write for a $150 milion dollar movie. *Don runs to check CV*

Sorry I don't have any of the stuff you want, but I'm sure this thread will be linked on a billion sites. Since you keep being outbid on Ebay I'm a bit wary about the class of hookers you offered. And Gin?! *shudders*

I hear He-Man is being made into a movie anyway but I get the point.

I liked Transfomers, duh, and ACTION FORCE. I always watched He-Man and had a load of action figures. I also had a load of Star Wars toys aswell. Maybe a movie can be based on them.

Battle of the Planets was great also, and the music still rings in my head. Don't forget BRAAAVE STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR and Thundercats. Inspector Gadg........no.

That's just a bit of stuff I liked. I'll come back when I think of more.

PS: Please erase any memory of Beast Wars from your mind before making this movie. Thanks.

[Stormwolf]

Originally posted by Don Murphy
Under this thread I'd like to hear replies to the following-

"In the 1980s I grew up on Transformers. I loved GI Joe and dug He Man. I also liked a hell of a lot.....????"

I liked:
Multiple superhero comics (Xmen, Fantastic Four, Avengers, etc)
MASK
Rambo (movies not the cartoon)
TMNT
Thundercats

Originally posted by Don Murphy
What kind of books, comics or properties does the Transformers generation want to see make it to the big screen?

Good question, fortunately (for me) all the stuff I like has already been made or is still in production, I'm talking about stuff like:
Spiderman
Xmen
Hulk
etc.

[Wonkimus_Major]

What else did I like? I was really into Starblazers, Robotech, Battle of the Planets, Force Five (five different anime giant robot shows--Danguard Ace, Starvengers, Spaceketeers, Gai King, and Grandizer, each shown on a different weekday.) I don't like any of the current anime on TV.

Yes, I liked GI Joe, too. and Inhumanoids. Jacye and the Wheeled Warriors. Robotix.

I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

[Blair]

Originally posted by SAJse
PS: Please erase any memory of Beast Wars from your mind before making this movie. Thanks.

Hey, it beats the hell out of every other recent TF show. For one, BW had good writing, it was funny, and the character development was great. The G1 cameos only sweetened the deal. Admit it, you creamed your jeans when Starscream and Ravage showed up, too. XD

[Frenzy]

Originally posted by Don Murphy
Hey there here's what we got----
Dreamworks and Spielberg very much still want the film for Summer '06 so it'll be hard- but GOOD.

Don't rush it Don!

Sounds good, though - jusr make sure his name's 'Simon Furman'

Anyways - Thundercats is dieing to be made into a movie, MASK, HeMan, Centurions, Visionaries, Deathlok, Battle of the Planets (how looong was that?) Ulysses (sp?) and...

Dangermouse!

[GeO]

Well, off the top of my head here's a couple other properties I followed after school back in the day. GIJoe and Masters of the Universe are already being done so I'll leave them out.

Thundercats
Lord of the Rings kinda look/vibe...swords, sorcery and fantasy on a place called Third Earth (as opposed to Middle Earth). Sort of a Fantastic Four family vibe mixed with an evil Mummy and a bunch of ugly lookin' beast-baddies and cyborganic pirates. Baste with some futuristic weaponry (tanks, flying pod racer looking things etc) and maybe raid the make-up department from Broadway's CATS to touch up our heroes.

M.A.S.K.
(Mobile Armored Strike Kommand)
Think something like the MelGibson RoadWarrior films but in modern times. GIJoe style human special forces team with a little bit of X-Men superpowers and James Bond vehicles mixed together. Members have individual customized masks (cross between ancient african head-dresses and middle ages kights in shining armor kinda look) that have special powers that only the default wearer can access. Powers are very X-Men-esque...from projectile attacks (fire, ice) to manipulating gravity, magnifying strength, seeing through walls etc. The everyday vehicles 'transform' into infantry units at the touch of a button...a motorcycle transforms into a one man copter, a sports car's doors double as wings and its trunk conceals jet thrusters not unlike that one car in 'Man with the Golden Gun' (James Bond). A 57 Chevy's body pops up a bit to reveal extra wheels and in essence a sort of tank tread along with a movable turret, a jeep can launch a water skimmer, another car doubles as a sub not unlike that one car from 'The Spy who Loved Me' (James Bond). And of course the bad guys have this technology as well.


Visionaries
Middle ages swords and scorcery kind of stuff except there's something going on with mirrors and reflections as they can come to life at the users will (they've built certain special mirrors into their armor torso's and onto their staffs) and they can attack or do other crazy supernatural things. One guy can expell a dragon ghost and another might start sucking everything into a black hole or something


Sectaurs
Like Planet of the Apes except more of an homage to all that is creepy and crawly. Middle ages style armor and weaponry but instead of vehicles they ride around on the backs of their favourite giant bug. Leader of the good guys has a giant flying moth or something, there's also a giant tarantula, mosquito, plus there are smaller insects (still maybe 4 feet long) which the charachters use as grappling devices, spys etc. All the charachters are humanoid but have bug eyes and antennas but the good guys look more human while the bad guys look more demonic. Maybe have some humans crash land on their world ala Charlton Heston. It's a madhouse!

DinoRiders
See Sectaurs but replace 'insect' with 'dinosaur.' Good guys all look normal (human) but the bad guys are ugly. The charachters crash land on prehistoric earth (like the Transformers) but unlike them they wake up right away and adapt/assimilate their surroundings with their technology to continue their war. Good guys control dino's more through telepathy and setting a good example, bad guys create mind control 'helmets' that they force onto the most vicious dino's they can find to fight the good guys. But if the helmets get knocked off the dino's will rebel against them.

GeO

P.S. All of these had TV shows and toys/books and at least 3 have had or still do have comics. Thundercats (Marvel and WildStorm), MASK (D.C.) and DinoRiders (Marvel).

[FeckinEejit]

There are so many 80's properties that need a swift kick into the 21st century. Mask, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, Battle Beasts, Jayce & the wheeled Warriors, Garbage Pail kids. I could do without Gi Joe or he-man, but If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with GI Joe.

[Blair]

I read there is a G.I. Joe live-action movie in the works.

[FreakNasty]

Hi Don, nice to hear from you again,
I haven't been around as much, just moved into an apartment, but I get Internet installed on the 18th, so you'll hear more from me again


Back on track...
A few Cartoons to make it to the Big Screen:
1)BraveStar - Cowboy with Supernatural Powers
2)MASK - Group of folks with with Supped up vechicles that change into weapons, also have 'Mask's" with special powers.


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3)*****EXOSQUAD***** Don Look at this one as I think this would be a great Silver Screen Movie.
The Cartoon itself was done in dark tone(Sort of like Robotech) series. People died, there was anguish, hardship.
I Implore you to watch the cartoon series, I beleive there was 2-3 seasons, but they were done with a more adult orinteted audience.

Premise: A group of marines, sign up for a Special Project where they use special "Suits" (Think, Ripley in Aliens with the "Loader")

Check it out

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[Cyclonus31]

Originally posted by Blair
I read there is a G.I. Joe live-action movie in the works.

I read that too, but last I heard, it was shelved.

[adi182]

Thundercats.

[GeO]

Originally posted by Blair
I read there is a G.I. Joe live-action movie in the works.

Also, Variety says that FOX has got John Woo directing and producing He-Man/Masters of the Universe with Adam Rifkin adapting the screenplay..

[JesterJJZ]

Glad to hear from you Don. Anyway, born in 81, I'm 23 now. Past few years I began "reclaiming" my childhood. If there is one word to describe it, it would be TRANSFORMERS. I remember pretending to the Optumus Prime and all that. I used to mix together all sorts of drinks like juices and soda and freeze them and make icecubes, then I would pretend they were Energon Cubes. Yeah I was hardcore. And now I feel I'm at the peak of my craving for Transformers. This forum in particular has really given me a drive to do more Transformers related work, with art, film, and music. So needless to say I am looking forwad to this film.

Other than being crazy about Transformers, I can also add such shows as Thundercats and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Those would be 2 others that I would like to see translated onto the silver screen.

Don, Thanks.

[Crow T Autobot]

Thanks for the update Don.

I applaud your direction finding a writer that is already a fan of the story. We need at least one rabid fanboy in on the project, it seemed to work pretty well with X-Men, Spider-Man and Lord of the Rings.

A summer 2006 date seems realistic considering the state of current development. Is there any particular reasoning behind this being slower than other films? Is it due to the involvement of so many producers and license holders involved?
It just seems that since He-Man was recently announced, and they already know who's directing. G.I. Joe seems to be moving at a similar slow-to-immoble pace. That makes it seem that Hasbro's approval process is making this slower than it normally would be.
I hope this isn't being treated as a "back burner" project by the people involved.


I have to agree with ThunderCats, Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers and M.A.S.K.. Of those though, only M.A.S.K. has an easy adaptation to the screen. ThunderCats could end up looking like an X-Men spinoff of the musical Cats, and Battle of the Planets could very easily look rediculous given the costumes. They work great in animation, but every live costumes I've seen look really silly on real people. Star Blazers is still under the umbrella of Disney I believe, residing in Development Hell.

[omega scourge]

How about making a Zelda movie? A movie version of the game Nightmare Creatures would be sick.

[JesterJJZ]

Yeah Zelda and Metroid films would be kickass!

[Cyclonus31]

So would a Star Blazers flick.

Damn...that show would be awesome if created correctly into a movie.

Think it'd be a little too far fetched to see a WWII destroyer in space with a huge hole in the front that shoots a particle beam enough to blow up a sun?

Just wondering

[slang73]

MASK
Visionaries
Thundercats
He-Man
GI Joe

Transformers was by far on top though.

[pombe]

Wow...no one has mentioned Silverhawks or Inhumanoids.

Let's see, here is a list of stuff I watched (in no particular order...just listing them as they come to mind):

Silverhawks
Inhumanoids
Inspector Gadget
Star Blazers
Battle of the Planets
Robotech
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Centurions
Visionaries
M.A.S.K.
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Macron One
Danger Mouse
Thundercats
Robotix
Gummy Bears (yeah, that's right, I watched this)
Smurfs (digging at the bottom of the barrel here)
Snorks (OMG...)

That's all I can dig up from my muddy memory...

Of course, as you've mentioned, I watched The Transformers, G.I.Joe, and He Man.

[COR]

There's a show I remember from the 80's but can't remember the name.

It was a space opera type deal ala "Babylon 5", I remember the toyline had action figures that were about an inch and a half tall and had magnetic feet. Might be Starblazers I'm not sure, but I remember the show being really cool.

Visionaries could be cool if done right, and could easily ride off some of the "Lord of the Rings" hype, being that it is a similar genre. Mind you that would only be enough to get some viewers into the theater for the first weekend, the movie itself would still need to be good.

GI Joe definitely needs to happen. This movie was screaming to be made even back in the 80's

can't really think of too many others that I care enough about to see updated or brought to the big screen. Prettymuch when I was a kid I was into Transformers so much that there wasn't much room for anything else.

[oneil4life]

I have to admit I did grow up in that generation, and am a big fan of that era, but at the same time that era produced some crappy cartoons. I think the only one's i could see being big screen adaptations that haven't been done already is G.I. Joe, Transformers, and M.A.S.K. (one of the most underated shows) sure there are stuff out there like visionaries, C.O.P.S. (Centeral Organization of Police Specialists), Thundercats, Voltron, and such, but i can see anything that would move over nicely to the big screen as much as GI Joe, Transformers, and MASK.

[Ozrein]

Well, very good to hear things are moving along. (I really cant wait for this movie to come, if it's as good as I hope it will be, I'll be dragging everyone I know to see it, all individually just so I can see it 5 million times. )

Anyway, in regards to your question:

Yes GI Joe, He-Man and of course Star Wars were the staple of my childhood toys (right next to Transformers of course) He-man really needs a new movie, the one that came out in the late 80's/early 90's (cant remember exactly when) was a little bit dissappointing. Sure I enjoyed it when I was a kid, but it could really use a modern update. GI Joe as well.

But if you want something new and different, I think a well done MASK movie would rock. The other day I went over to my parents house for my Dad's B-day. Well when I get there, my little nephew is playing with all my old MASK toys. Needless to say I spent the rest of the night playing MASK with my nephew, I even remembered how to operate all the different vehicles.

Yes I'm just a big kid, I guess I've been 12 for the past 15 years. lol