Michael Bay took a lot of flack from the Transformer fanboys (I was a skeptic too) until the movie came out and now if you want to bash Transformers you tend to find yourself in the minority. But a lot of the bashing came from internet leaks about what they figured he was up to, and now Bay is armed and ready for us.
You’ll remember that Bay and company dealt with plenty of early leaks on the first Transformers film, so much so that Paramount even had a few sites temporarily shut down due to their publishing of movie photos. But Bay claims he’s ready to handle it now, and when he spoke with Rotten Tomatoes recently, he said: “One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more… We’re going to leak a lot of false information all over the place. I now know their game. They’re going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We’ve got scripts and treatments written up that we’re going to leak. No one’s going to know. There’s one out that’s fake right now.
So Bay is playing the reverse psychology card so we will have NO CLUE what to expect by flooding us with information that will almost entirely be false.
Even if some intrepid insider risks his internship and future in film to release some top secret news we are going to be so buried in red herrings that we won’t believe you anyways?
I think this is a VERY poor move on their part. We have already proven that the online community builds up so much buzz and free publicity for the movies that it is just shooting yourself in the foot to tell us in advance that nothing we get online will be accurate. This discourages us from talking about it at all.
Do remember that this very site was one of the ones that Paramount shut down over Transformers leaks, and we are ready to deal with you too Paramount! (kidding!)
