Most of y’all may ridiculed the notion of Michael Bay deigning to write an actual screenplay, but I’d personally welcome the idea if it meant throwing over whatever Ehren Kruger has fashioned from the hackneyed storytelling of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman for Transformers 2. Why shell out upwards of ten figures on three writers when “And then Optimus Prime throws Megatron through the State Hermitage Museum lengthwise” is all the story we require?
Sadly, Bay is going against his purest instincts and letting the aforementioned trio gang bang his precious… whatever it was he claimed to have a few weeks ago. An outline, I guess. But he kind of contradicts his earlier assertion with this comment to Variety’s Michael Fleming and Patricia McClintock:
“[The writers] did a detailed outline before the writer’s strike, and now they are in Michael Bay jail, holed up in a hotel and working feverishly,” Bay said. “We’re paying for a beautiful suite and they are getting a lot of work done. Hiring three writers was unusual, but it has been a godsend in getting us to where we need to be. Somehow you find a way to get it done.”
By “they are”, I assume he means that Orci, Kurtzman and Kruger are jointly banging away at the screenplay for Transformers 2 like Inspector Clouseau and Kato erecting The Silver Hornet (Orci and Kurtzman were originally contracted for story only). This raises a couple of questions: 1) Isn’t this the way the world ends?, and 2) If Orci and Kurtzman are truly locked up in “Michael Bay jail”, who’s rewriting Star Trek?
If the answer to that second question is “J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof”, then yay. All told (and no offense to Mr. Bay), I’d rather have Orci and Kurtzman fucking up another Transformers movie than the reboot of Star Trek. But if they’re just multitasking… well, geez, I’d hate to see what a distracted Orci and Kurtzman screenplay looks like.
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Star Trek is not being re-written. It's a lock as confirmed on Trekmovie.com. The shooting schedule remains unaffected by the move to May as does the scipt. They only have a month or so to go.
The world ended a long time ago. It was called 'Armageddon'.
If you can survive the random explosions or dodge the [asteroids/caskets/Zeros/train axles], I bet Michael Bay Jail is pretty nice.
Go to YouTube and search "Michael Bay Awesome Verizon" and you will laugh your ass off. Yes you will.
I believe the Veizon spot was directed by Bay himself. If that's true, it's easily tbe best thing he's done since The Rock.
Wow. The star trek script written by Abrams! Oh, joy. I hope it's as good as that piece of tripe Clovercrap. As the boys used to say.. "New Star trek by Abrams… I've got a bad feeling about this.."
As long as the sequel has more giant robots urinating on character actors, I'm so there.
His Verizon commercial is more clever than it has any right to be. If he were allowed to write his own films they could only be better, directly exposing us to his vain insanity and good humor. By good humor I mean more KKK setpieces led by Henry Rollins.
Jeremy, you sound like a bitter, failed screenwriter wannabe with all your insults about Orci and Kurtzman.
"Not now Cato, yeau raving Oriental leaunatic! This is not the TIME, Cato!"
*pause, then sneak attack judo chop to the unsuspecting manservant*
"THEES is the time!"
Michael Bay can eat a dick– a big fat one.
He's a fucking hack and I refuse to see any piece of shit with his name on it.
"I'd rather have Orci and Kurtzman fucking up another Transformers movie than the reboot of Star Trek". Me too
With Jazz dead, I wonder who's gonna be the wacky Negro stereotype Transformer. At least Bumblebee can remain the gay stereotype Bay loves.
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