Michael Bay is a busy boy these days getting the new Transformers movie ready to go. Over on his blog he’s already got the front page set up with the Autobots and Decepticons symbols, along with a countdown clock to The Transformers release date. Cool!
In the blog itself, his last two posts have some interesting stuff:
1) The Transformers poster and teaser trailer will be released July 4th as we expected
2) Don’t believe anything you hear about “names” of the characters in the films. Bay says that only he, the COO of Hasbro toys and the Hasbro Chief Legal Council know the actual names of the characters, and that those names won’t be released to the public until the toy boxes are printed.
That’s all cool… but a BIG FLAG went up for me when I read that. Does this mean that there is a chance that Bay will change the names of some of the actual Transformers characters?!?! It probably doesn’t mean that at all, and I’m just reading into it.
But if it DOES mean he’s considering changing the names of some of the characters… get ready for a holy war. If Optimus Prime is suddenly named “Truck Boss Supreme” I swear I’m going to fucking lose it on someone.
Big thanks out to Larry for pointing me to this story.
