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Michael Bay’s Transformers Movies Were Almost Derailed After the First Film
ComicBook.comStory by Lisa LamanImage from ComicBook.com
scrn loglineThe inside story of how the Transformers film franchise nearly derailed after the first blockbuster hit, thanks to a writers' strike and release date woes.beat sheet- Paramount rushed to get Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen into theaters just two months after the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike began, leaving the screenwriters scrambling to finish the script mere hours before the strike.
- Director Michael Bay had to devise contingency plans in case a potential Director's Guild of America strike in 2008 prevented him from working on the Revenge of the Fallen visual effects-heavy production.
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Michael Bay’s Transformers Movies Were Almost Derailed After the First Film
ComicBook.comStory by Lisa Laman
scrn logline
The inside story of how the Transformers film franchise nearly derailed after the first blockbuster hit, thanks to a writers' strike and release date woes.
beat sheet
- Paramount rushed to get Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen into theaters just two months after the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike began, leaving the screenwriters scrambling to finish the script mere hours before the strike.
- Director Michael Bay had to devise contingency plans in case a potential Director's Guild of America strike in 2008 prevented him from working on the Revenge of the Fallen visual effects-heavy production.
call sheet
Michael Bay, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Ehren Kruger, Chris Hemsworth, Paramount Pictures, Writers Guild of America, Director's Guild of America, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers One, Transformers/G.I. Joe