One of the biggest news stories going around at the moment covers the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen character information which was appeared on Michael Bay's blog, on USA Today and on Yahoo Movies. All three posts were made on April Fools Day, 1st April, so it could be that some of the information contained within in is just a well put together April Fools joke.
Read on to see the information and make up your own minds.
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Yahoo Movies
Noticeably absent from the list is the Decepticon leader, Megatron, who
was killed at the end of the previous movie and last seen being dumped
in the ocean. Michael Bay denied that Megatron is in the movie, but
actor Hugo Weaving said in an interview that he had recorded dialogue
for the part. We'll see if and how he returns when "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" opens on June 24th.
Michael Bay's Blog
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY
It's always the quiet ones you need to fear.
Ninjas. Serial killers. Boba Fett. Gastrointestinal functions.
In
Transformers lore, the mechanical jaguar Ravage has been a villain
favorite since the 1980s for his stealthy tactics and deadly force.
Ever since a four-legged mechanical beast prowled through the trailer
for summer's sequel, Revenge of The Fallen, fans have been awaiting
more word about the feline-ish Decepticon. As more robots in the June
24 movie are revealed, Ravage comes into focus.
"In the spirit
of 'more than meets the eye,' Ravage isn't just lethal because of his
sharp teeth," says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. "There's actually
another skill set Ravage has that didn't exist before, so there's going
to be a surprise for fans."
This version of the cat already
looks far different from the original, with a single glowing red eye
and a swinging, mace-like tail, but his role will be similar to the
1980s cartoon and Hasbro toy — the ultimate spy.
Ravage often
was dispatched to monitor the heroic Autobots and their human allies,
reporting back to the Decepticons by transforming into a cassette tape
and replaying his recordings through the larger robot master Soundwave,
who switched into a Walkman-sized tape deck. (How a giant robot became
a small piece of sound equipment was a comical hole in logic never
fully explained.)
The cassette tape transformation is gone, of
course; Ravage doesn't turn into anything. But Soundwave will appear,
again serving as an evil communications expert but this time in the
form of an orbiting space satellite.
"They are still connected,"
fellow screenwriter Roberto Orci says of Soundwave and his pet. "But
rather than trying to hold onto a notion as antiquated as an audiotape,
which some members of our audience have maybe never laid eyes on, we
wanted to go a new way."
And Ravage, as before, won't speak like the other Transformers.
"We
wanted to stay true to the idea that Decepticons who take visual clues
from beasts maintain that," says Orci. "It would be strange to have a
talking jaguar, or a scorpion with an English accent."
Filmmaker
Michael Bay has ensured that Ravage has lots of company, including many
redesigned favorite robots from the original 1980s incarnation, in the
new film.
"We have big guys, some little guys. We have a lot of
littler ones, too. Little weirder ones," Bay says. Like the
Insecticons, which were giant bugs in the original series and Hasbro
toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators.
Bay, who
collects the Vanguard Award Thursday night at ShoWest, offers a peek at
others joining Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for another rock-'em,
sock-'em robo-brawl.
AUTOBOTS (the good guys)
Jetfire:
As
in the original, this fighter plane crash-landed on Earth a long time
ago, and he will become a reformed Decepticon now fighting for the
humans. His alternate form is the SR-71 Blackbird, the outdated but
still-sleek Cold War spy plane.
"He's old, craggy, forgetful ...
doesn't work very well. Can't transform very well, because he's very
geriatric. They get stuck with him a lot," Bay says. "He knows the plan
of the bad guys, but he forgets all the good parts of the plan."
New recruits:
Sideswipe,
a candy-apple red Lamborghini in the original, joins the cast this time
as General Motor's silver Corvette Stingray concept car. Jolt is a new
foot soldier, played in four-wheel form by the Volt, a forthcoming
Chevy hybrid plug-in. Two of GM's other concept cars (the Trax and
Beat) play The Twins, nicknamed Skids and Mudflap.
"Some of the
junior Transformers are just dumb," Bay says with a laugh. "But it's
great for kids because they're like the Little Engine That Could.
They're (screw)-ups, but they get really heroic at the end."
For the gals:
Arcee
is the only female and turns up as Megan Fox's hot-pink motorcycle.
Co-screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci say she was in an early
draft of the first movie. "But we felt we needed to win the audience
over before asking for that suspension of disbelief: a feminine alien
robot," Kurtzman says.
DECEPTICONS (the bad guys)
The title character:
The
Fallen is an ancient robot, sort of the Transformers' version of
Lucifer. He's one of the original robot aliens, and his defiance and
arrogance led to his banishment into another dimension.
The screenwriters say that The Fallen holds the key to life on both Earth and Cybertron, the Transformers' home planet.
Other troublemakers:
A
smaller, but no less malevolent Decepticon is known as The Doctor — a
spider-like droid that transforms into various implements of torture
and has a not-so-nice encounter with star Shia LaBeouf.
Then there's a giant one called Demolishor, and another tinier one with the sportier name of Wheelie.
Constructicons:
These
seven robots — Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage,
Overload and Mixmaster — transform into construction machinery, but
also link up with one another to form one gigantic robot stomper named
Devastator.
"He's made of vehicles designed to build, and he
turns into is someone who loves to destroy," Orci says. "He is an agent
of absolute chaos."
Bay says Devastator is the crème de la smash and got a uncharacteristic reaction out of the film's executive producer already.
"Spielberg saw it and said, 'This is (expletive) awesome!' " Bay says, and adds: "It's always nice when you can make him swear."
Source: USAToday