Don Murphy's Final Post of '06

Don Murphy once again provided an update on his various plans including Transformers. The main points of note is the official confirmation of the December 20th online arrival of the trailer, the first cut of the film will be completed next year, ILM is doing its thing and the push continues to get Welker on board. With the first cuts of the film arriving, that means the film as written, shot and designed, including the TFs, is pretty much a lock and now its just a matter of tweaking and completing. This sound simple but its still going to be months for the film is done with all the effects completed, voices recorded, and so forth.

The post:

HEAD STOOGE: The Last Sunday Post of 06, Now On Saturday
Come gather ye Stooges and Hear a New Tale....

This will likely be the last posting of 2006. I am basically gonna miss Christmas this year, since Susan and I are knee deep in WHILE SHE WAS OUT, prepping in Vancouver for a February shoot. We hope to go right from that into FACES OF DEATH, and then who knows what next year will bring. (WE 3 ? Yes Please!) If it is a year like 2006, then please, more, more!

SHOOT-EM-UP is now tentatively scheduled for September 7, 2007. The film is amazing, exciting and funny as shit. Can't wait to show you the new trailer.

The TRANSFORMERS trailer comes out December 20th online. I'm not going to hype it. If it doesn't silence the haters, nothing will. The reality is that this film comes out July 4th, 2007, and the producers and the studio are already talking sequel. We know what we have is an exciting and amazing summer blockbuster.

The Don Murphy Message Board was set up by a fan of mine to discuss my movies. Soon, certainly by the new year, there will be a banner on top of the page advising that Transformers discussion should be moved to www.transformersmovie.com . I mean, you can post whatever you want wherever you want I guess, except there is no point anymore. The film is shot. The first director's cut comes in next week. ILM is rendering the film. We all think that the film kicks ass. But, no matter what you post, it isn't changing. All the polls in the world no longer make a difference. It seems to make more sense to discuss the movie on the movie site.

I know that from the beginning of this board, I have done my utmost best to make the fan base as happy as I possibly could. You guys demanded Cullen and despite resistance from some quarters he is in there. I feel Welker will hopefully come in there as well. There were things you wanted that frankly made no sense in a live action movie. And there were things I could not deliver, because I was only one voice among many. I think the board served its purpose and along the way created a community and for that I am most grateful.

I hope you'll all have a great Holiday Season and be good to one another out there. Make the internet a little less hatefilled. Enjoy movies that look good. Enjoy your families and take care, and hang tight, Stooges, hang tight.

We 3 was an excellent 3 part comic series from Grant Morrison about government created cybernetically enhanced cat, dog and rabbit that escape and discover the world for the first time with mixed results. If filmed close to as written, could be good but Murphy's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen leaves me wary. Murphy has excellent taste in properties, its the constant "re-imagining" of an already proven concept that is the headscratcher. Anyway still plenty of TF news to be leaked for next year including the voice casting and the final designs of all the robots. Also probably around late April early May will be the final trailer for the film to begin the push for July 4th dominance over Die Hard 3.