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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 17, 2018 23:47:47 GMT
For anyone who might not be aware, Beast Wars was an era of the Transformers franchise from the 90s, where the descendants of the autobots and decepticons travelled to the past to do battle on prehistoric Earth. The main gimmick of this era was that instead of transforming into vehicles, the robots transformed into animals. As silly as that may sound, Beast Wars was pretty popular for its time, and is still held in high regard among Transformers fans today.
The he question is, if they were to do a live action adaptation of Beast Wars in the future, how would you suggest going about it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 0:27:15 GMT
For anyone who might not be aware, Beast Wars was an era of the Transformers franchise from the 90s, where the descendants of the autobots and decepticons travelled to the past to do battle on prehistoric Earth. The main gimmick of this era was that instead of transforming into vehicles, the robots transformed into animals. As silly as that may sound, Beast Wars was pretty popular for its time, and is still held in high regard among Transformers fans today. The he question is, if they were to do a live action adaptation of Beast Wars in the future, how would you suggest going about it? Beast Wars is extremely niche so I don't think it would ever have much of a chance. That said... Keep it away from Earth and humans. Even the general public knows what the Transformers are now so there's no need to bog it down with human protagonists. Make the Transformers the central focus. Keep the premise simple. You're going to have to introduce a lot of characters and a world, and their interplay between each other and the world itself is going to be the interesting bit, so you'll want the plot to be as basic as possible. A team from each faction detected some MacGuffinite and the goal is to secure it. Get that out of the way as soon as possible and focus on the character interaction within each group and against the other group. Make it something close in tone to a spy action thriller with two different, equally capable teams aiming for the same objective. The most interesting aspect of Beast Wars was Starscream's (i.e. the raptor) constant scheming and betrayals and defections. You can have some big dumb action scenes to break things up but ultimately it would be best if the bulk of the film is about these two groups trying to outwit each other to get the MacGuffin using covert actions, fake diplomacy, and trying to out-think each other instead of trying to just beat each other into scrap. Keep it simple, basically. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 18, 2018 0:43:02 GMT
For anyone who might not be aware, Beast Wars was an era of the Transformers franchise from the 90s, where the descendants of the autobots and decepticons travelled to the past to do battle on prehistoric Earth. The main gimmick of this era was that instead of transforming into vehicles, the robots transformed into animals. As silly as that may sound, Beast Wars was pretty popular for its time, and is still held in high regard among Transformers fans today. The he question is, if they were to do a live action adaptation of Beast Wars in the future, how would you suggest going about it? Beast Wars is extremely niche so I don't think it would ever have much of a chance. That said... Keep it away from Earth and humans. Even the general public knows what the Transformers are now so there's no need to bog it down with human protagonists. Make the Transformers the central focus. Keep the premise simple. You're going to have to introduce a lot of characters and a world, and their interplay between each other and the world itself is going to be the interesting bit, so you'll want the plot to be as basic as possible. A team from each faction detected some MacGuffinite and the goal is to secure it. Get that out of the way as soon as possible and focus on the character interaction within each group and against the other group. Make it something close in tone to a spy action thriller with two different, equally capable teams aiming for the same objective. The most interesting aspect of Beast Wars was Starscream's (i.e. the raptor) constant scheming and betrayals and defections. You can have some big dumb action scenes to break things up but ultimately it would be best if the bulk of the film is about these two groups trying to outwit each other to get the MacGuffin using covert actions, fake diplomacy, and trying to out-think each other instead of trying to just beat each other into scrap. Keep it simple, basically. Starscream? You mean Dinobot? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 0:44:42 GMT
Beast Wars is extremely niche so I don't think it would ever have much of a chance. That said... Keep it away from Earth and humans. Even the general public knows what the Transformers are now so there's no need to bog it down with human protagonists. Make the Transformers the central focus. Keep the premise simple. You're going to have to introduce a lot of characters and a world, and their interplay between each other and the world itself is going to be the interesting bit, so you'll want the plot to be as basic as possible. A team from each faction detected some MacGuffinite and the goal is to secure it. Get that out of the way as soon as possible and focus on the character interaction within each group and against the other group. Make it something close in tone to a spy action thriller with two different, equally capable teams aiming for the same objective. The most interesting aspect of Beast Wars was Starscream's (i.e. the raptor) constant scheming and betrayals and defections. You can have some big dumb action scenes to break things up but ultimately it would be best if the bulk of the film is about these two groups trying to outwit each other to get the MacGuffin using covert actions, fake diplomacy, and trying to out-think each other instead of trying to just beat each other into scrap. Keep it simple, basically. Starscream? You mean Dinobot? He was Starscream in effect. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 18, 2018 1:19:09 GMT
Starscream? You mean Dinobot? He was Starscream in effect. Not really. Starscream is underhanded, whiny and often ineffective. Dinobot was portrayed as a proud warrior who lived by a certain code of honor. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 1:25:18 GMT
He was Starscream in effect. Not really. Starscream is underhanded, whiny and often ineffective. Dinobot was portrayed as a proud warrior who lived by a certain code of honor. No he wasn't. He was always a schemer and predominately self-interested. He was Beast Wars version of Starscream. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 18, 2018 1:26:40 GMT
Not really. Starscream is underhanded, whiny and often ineffective. Dinobot was portrayed as a proud warrior who lived by a certain code of honor. No he wasn't. He was always a schemer and predominately self-interested. He was Beast Wars version of Starscream. Watch Code of Hero. Terrorsaur or Tarantulas were much better candidates for that show’s version of Starscream. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 1:28:49 GMT
No he wasn't. He was always a schemer and predominately self-interested. He was Beast Wars version of Starscream. Watch Code of Hero. Terrorsaur or Tarantulas were much better candidates for that show’s version of Starscream. Alright, whatever.  I'm not about to argue Beast Wars lore. But Dinobot, in a film, should be the complex anti-hero with his own agenda. Surely we can agree on that. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 18, 2018 1:30:06 GMT
Watch Code of Hero. Terrorsaur or Tarantulas were much better candidates for that show’s version of Starscream. Alright, whatever. I'm not about to argue Beast Wars lore. But Dinobot, in a film, should be the complex anti-hero with his own agenda. Surely we can agree on that. Yes, Dinobot is an anti-hero, which is not at all what Starscream is. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 1:32:35 GMT
Alright, whatever. I'm not about to argue Beast Wars lore. But Dinobot, in a film, should be the complex anti-hero with his own agenda. Surely we can agree on that. Yes, Dinobot is an anti-hero, which is not at all what Starscream is. It's the same thing if you boil it down. They're both working out of self-interest and are willing to flip sides when it suits them. They're both wildcard characters. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 18, 2018 1:37:57 GMT
Yes, Dinobot is an anti-hero, which is not at all what Starscream is. It's the same thing if you boil it down. They're both working out of self-interest and are willing to flip sides when it suits them. They're both wildcard characters. Dinobot did briefly defect back to the predacons in season 2, but that was part of his character arc for the season. His final episode was all about him trying to redeem himself by stopping Megatron from wiping out the early humans, which culminated in him sacrificing himself. That’s not really something I’d imagine Starscream doing. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 1:40:45 GMT
It's the same thing if you boil it down. They're both working out of self-interest and are willing to flip sides when it suits them. They're both wildcard characters. Dinobot did briefly defect back to the predacons in season 2, but that was part of his character arc for the season. His final episode was all about him trying to redeem himself by stopping Megatron from wiping out the early humans, which culminated in him sacrificing himself. That’s not really something I’d imagine Starscream doing. In any event, that's the most interesting part of his character and what makes him the most interesting character in the series. Starscream's defections also made him interesting. Though I think it would be tough to make that work in a feature film. |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 18, 2018 15:36:20 GMT
Like with Bumblebee, make it a prequel that ignores the Bay series.
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Post by Power Ranger on Jun 19, 2018 10:56:13 GMT
But how to account for their transformations into animals? It’s not camouflage or any other form of subterfuge, so what is it? If I can get that then I’d love to see a Beast Wars film.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Jun 19, 2018 16:19:46 GMT
Alright, whatever. I'm not about to argue Beast Wars lore. But Dinobot, in a film, should be the complex anti-hero with his own agenda. Surely we can agree on that. Yes, Dinobot is an anti-hero, which is not at all what Starscream is. Correct on all points. Most importantly, Starscream did not defect to the Autobots, whereas Dinobot did. Starscream died a scheming, humiliating death. Dinobot died a hero. Twice. |
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Post by PreachCaleb on Jun 19, 2018 16:20:25 GMT
But how to account for their transformations into animals? It’s not camouflage or any other form of subterfuge, so what is it? If I can get that then I’d love to see a Beast Wars film. They could do the same as in the original show. Organic forms keep them from overloading on the raw energon. |
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