Re: [FILM] Tom DeSanto interview...

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SWEET!!!


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 > Ain't It Cool News interview with Tom DeSanto about live-action TF film...
 >
 > Tom DeSanto gets to yapping about more than meets the eye... aka
 > TRANSFORMERS!
 >
 > Hey folks, Harry here with some quotes from an interview that Tom DeSanto
 > did for DREAMWATCH magazine (Pick It Up Now), and the man is a yapping
about
 > TRANSFORMERS which he's helping to adapt as Producer (alongside Don
Murphy)
 > into a badass Autobot / Decepticon film. In the piece he talks about going
 > for that 1980's film homage feel... I believe the images he's thinking of
 > are things like the look on Elliot's face as they take-off on the
 > bicycles... or the look on Christian Bale's face as the Cadillacs of the
Sky
 > tip their wings in EMPIRE OF THE SUN... These were not "annoying kids,"
but
 > young people... Kids that were profoundly affected by what they were
 > witnessing and through filmic empathy were passing on the awe of those
 > moments to us out in the audience... involving us through them. I'm VERY
 > confident that Tom DeSanto will be blowing our minds with TRANSFORMERS...
 > Here ya go...
 >
 > Hey Harry,
 >
 > Just picked up the new issue of Dreamwatch which has an interview with Tom
 > DeSanto talking about his plans for Transformers and claiming he's going
to
 > do for it what he did for X-Men.
 >
 > Among other stuff he says?
 >
 > "There's no better mythology to bring to the big screen than Transformers.
 > Transformers has got great characters and created an iconic world, and the
 > mythology still resonates with people 20 years after it was launched. Even
 > though they're robots the characters have a lot of personality and a lot
of
 > heart and people still care about them. That's a great thing."
 >
 > "The plan with the movie is that it will combine live action with CGI. I
 > think it's going to be something the audience has never seen before. In
all
 > the years of movie-making, I don't think the image of a truck transforming
 > into a 20-foot tall robot has ever been captured on screen. I also want to
 > make a film that's a homage to 1980s movies and gets back to the sense of
 > wonder that Hollywood has lost over the years. It will have those
 > Spielberg-ian moments where you have the push-in on the wide-eyed kid and
 > you feel like you're 10 years old even if you're 35. That's the energy I
 > want to go for."
 >
 > "Just like with X-Men I want to get to the core of what makes Transformers
 > great. We're going to get back to the heart of what Transformers is and
 > distill that into a movie."
 >
 > DeSanto says that the film will be based on Generation One and set on
Earth
 > and that he's been rewatching all the cartoons and reading all the comics.
 >
 > Going by his contribution to X-Men I reckon that DeSanto could be the guy
to
 > pull this off as he really seems to understand that cartoon and comic fans
 > want films that are faithful to their source. Still, the talk of making it
 > very 1980s is a bit worrying - I just hope there's NOT an annoying cute
kid
 > getting in the way of some hardcore metal-mashing action.
 >
 > Optimum Grime