Various Activision news bits

[Everlost_MI]

Various bits of news have surfaced from the results of Activision's quarterly financial conference call today.

Gamecloud (http://www.gamecloud.com/) has the scoop on a few them which include...

The planned console versions of The Movies have been cancelled. (http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=3363)
The purchase of the game rights to the upcoming Michael Bay directed Transformers movie. (http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=3366)

The official press release from Activision regarding the conference call can be read here. (http://investor.activision.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=186718)

I am still leary of the Transformers flick but hopefully they can make a decent game out of it. Anyone hear if it's going to be the new generation of Transformers or the original set for the movie?

[LilAbner]

Anything short of G1 will be a letdown.

[Sherack Nhar]

It will be a live-action movie with CG G1 Transformers. All the old favourites should return; the producers have repeatedly mentionned that it was going to be a character-driven piece. Sounds promising, except for the director choice, IMO.

[mkelehan]

Gun was the number 1 selling new IP last year, and it was considered a failure. And people wonder why we see so many sequels...

[TrackZero]

I would be VERY surprised if it wasn't G1.

[Royal Fool]

I think I read somewhere it was a mix of both Transformers generations and that the writers definitely wanted to put in as many of their favourites as they could.

[LilEvilFish]

director and producer said that G1 was the best choice with the time and setting. Besides the modern day ones are more like pokemon than transformers.

[Morratut]

It's going to be G1. However Megatron isn't going to transform into a hand gun. Thats a shame :(

I think the movie is going to try and avoid massive robots transforming into very small devices. I think they are worried people will think that isn't possible and too far fetched.

I can't remember what they are going to do with Soundwave.

Look here for far too much information...

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewforum.php?f=44&sid=e9fc22aea99d6f663f137a3035d34f01

[Dr Quincy]

Anyone hear if it's going to be the new generation of Transformers or the original set for the movie?

It matters not; Michael Bay is directing - all hope is lost.

[BigJonno]

Let's just hope that it's a The Rock and not a Pearl Harbour. Anyway, from what I've heard Spielberg has had a pretty close hand in the project, due to being a big Transformers fan.

[kokyunage]

If it doesn't have Optimus Prime not only will I not see the movie. I might even camp out near my local theater protesting and say the movie endorses child porn and terrorists.