Transformers, the best simple fun popcorn summer flick of all time has made enough money now (Almost $700 million worldwide now) to buy even Britney Spears back some respect (zing! Ok it wasn’t that funny… I’m no Doug Nagy). But seriously, with the movie making that much, and many people dying for a follow up film SOON… why has there been no news or announcements regarding a Transformers 2 yet?
Well… you see… in summer of 2008 there is a writers strike coming… and because certain unions with strike with other unions too… it’s all one big mess of doom. That being the case… since it would be impossible to get a Transformers 2 done BEFORE the strike… they just don’t know what to do at this point. The good folks over at Moviehole have this:
Murphy (Transformers producer) tells readers on his message board that “For those of you most anxious about TRANSFORMERS 2, the silence you hear is primarily because people are fretting about a presumed strike in June 2008. Will it happen? I don’t know- does the public care about strikes anymore in this day and age? What do rich people have to strike about anyway? I don’t have any side here ( you hear about the writers and the Producers but that actually means the STUDIOS) I just think stopping work is kind of pointless. But since no one wants to be filming IF a strike happens, everything needs to be done filming by the end of May 2008. So this is affecting the lack of news about Transformers 2 at least for now. Stay tuned.”
This really does make perfect sense… and highlights how this strike is just going to end up screwing everyone. I don’t blame the union for wanting to strike… I don’t blame the studios for not wanting to cave to the unions demands… but I do blame both of them for not sitting at a table everyday, for 12 hours a day, and refusing to stop until an agreement can be reached.
Whatever… I just want to see Soundwave.
