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NEWS: Transformers, Even Stevens Star Close to Deal

Whoever designed Megatron was a design genius! As a robot, he's got this incredibly iconic, bauhaus look, and he transforms into a handgun! Howcool is that?

I thought Peter had made a statement that he would be VERY interested if they approached him but I can't find it now.

Soundwave ain't going to be a Tape Deck,Megatron ain't going to be a gun...Both Logic is out of date...A word TransFans use called "mass shifting" is what both these bots do...Come on a Gun that can Transform to be the same size as a Semi!I think not...

It was Gary Chalk would showed Interest in this Movie(Beast Wars,Beast Machines,Armada,Energon Cybertron)who has voiced Optimus Prime for the last 10 years...Ok ya sure their was Neil Kaplan but that was only a 39 episode series...

Soundwave ain't going to be a Tape Deck,Megatron ain't going to be a gun...Both Logic is out of date...A word TransFans use called "mass shifting" is what both these bots do...Come on a Gun that can Transform to be the same size as a Semi!I think not...

Well I think Chalk/Kaye should Voice Prime/Megatron...

I hope they do update certain guys a bit with modern-day vehicles, but then it would be neat to find Transformers like Bumble Bee (using an older beetle) get the old school framework.

Originally they said Soundwave was going to be a helicopter,

Cullen had made a comment a while back (probably at a Botcon) stating that he would love to reprise his role as Optimus Prime if approached. Welker has said the same, but he doesn't come cheap and isn't very flexible when it comes to time and travel. I remember the folks doing Beast Wars saying they would even come to his house to record him as G1 Megatron, but he turned down the amount of money they were offering and their budget didn't allow them to go higher.

...One thing I can confirm, straight from Bay's mouth (and this is something he wanted the fans to know) is that he is going to audition the original voice actors for the Autobots and Decepticons. He said it's no guarantee they'll get cast, but he's going to give them a listen. His main fear is that the actors have aged since the cartoon and that age may be noticeable in their voices.Bay then showed me a rough design for the TRANSFORMERS teaser poster. It was a robotic eye overlooking planet Earth, kind of peeking over the curvature of the globe. The eye was in a brow the shape of a right triangle and looked very mechanical, iris and all. The tagline was "Their War. Our World."...The biggest difference from the cartoon and toys is that the Autobots and Decepticons aren't going to be as blocky. Bay said that when they started breaking down how these robots transform from vehicles to robots the blocky end result didn't make any sense and looked pretty silly. So, you see the working parts of the vehicles much more on the robots, you see sharper angles, but they all stem from them transforming....It was around here that I got my first look at Optimus Prime. I saw three concept art pieces on Optimus. The first was a headshot. He is blue, like the cartoon, but I noticed a lack of red in the early stuff I saw. Mostly steel gray and blue. Not sure what I think about that. His face is a bit longer than I remember the cartoon being, but the image I think of when I picture Optimus Prime is when his face guard is up. Bay was quick to point out that the Optimus I was seeing was him without his battle mask. Like the other robot I saw, Optimus was more angular than the cartoon, but he was still hulking. He was by no means lithe and skinny. Bulky, but not blocky....We talked a bit about the beginning of the movie. It starts in the Antarctica with a man chipping away at a giant ice wall. Something happens, his dogs run away and ice wall opens, the man falling into an icy cave, sliding down into the earth. When he stops, the camera pulls back and shows him resting in a giant robotic hand, half in and half out of the ice. I saw this piece in production art and it was very atmospheric with giant shapes in the surrounding ice walls and the tiny man resting in the palm of a robot.Bay later revealed that although this is the beginning of the movie, it isn't the first thing we see. Bay's words were, "We will actually see Cybertron," which is the planet where the Autobots hail from...