Friday, June 20, 2008

No "2" Please

I just recieved a pleasant note from Paramount asking for the "2" to be removed from the title of the sequel to Transformers. Names and contact info removed to protect the innocent:
Hi There!

I handle the online publicity for Paramount / Dreamworks and I am working on the new Transformers film. Would you mind correcting your information on the site as the title of the film is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (please take out the 2). Thank you so much! We appreciate your help.
So there you go, the title isn't "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" but "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" In bold because why not bold it. I guess this goes along with the streak lately in Hollywood to avoid adding a number to sequels (Incredible Hulk, Dark Knight, and many others).

Also this works with what "Peter_Porker" found as a new domain registered by Hasbro that will probably be used to help promote the film and toyline.
Domain Name: TRANSFORMERSREVENGEOFTHEFALLEN.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: DNS1.HASBRO.COM
Name Server: DNS2.HASBRO.COM
Name Server: DNS3.HASBRO.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 28-mar-2008
Creation Date: 28-mar-2008
Expiration Date: 28-mar-2011
Out of pure laziness, I will probably continue to use shorthand of TF2 or Transformers 2 or whatever else pops in my mind.

Update: Should remark that the address is legit and a quick google search confirmed that use by Paramount and Hasbro.

Update 2: A member of the TF2 writing triumvirate, Roberto Orci, posted on TFW2005 "No, it's true. No 2 in the title."

15 comments:

  1. Sounds fake. Did you check the e-mail dress to see if it was genuinely owned by Dreamworks?

    Otherwise I say it's just someone getting a kick out of messing with your head.

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  2. interesting. even if true, i would probably not be motivated enough to go ahead and change my prefs on how i would write my own blog. if you were on their payroll somehow, beholden to their brand guidelines, then yeah. but if not, then i'd probably just go about saying tf2, etc. /2c

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  3. Hmm... Even Michael Bay had Transformers 2 on his blog. Even if it is in Roman numerals. Strange.

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  4. I typed in www.transformersrevengeofthefallen.com last night to see if it was real - it is not. I tried it several times and also got a message, "your search didn't match any documents" after repeated tries of typing that web address in.

    As far as the whole, "No 2" thing, I think that's actually silly. I mean, this will be the SECOND film in the series, and as much as Michael Bay wants to say that this film is a, "self-contained" film with no sequential ties to the first one, there is still a somewhat logical progression between some events in the last film and this film, i.e., Simmons losing his job after Sector 7 is disbanded in TF1, to Simmons working at a deli (LOL!!!!) in TF2, Megatron being killed in TF1, to maybe being revived SOMEHOW in TF2, more Transformers landing on earth, etc. The ego of the HollyWEIRD media system never ceases to amaze me.

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  5. "The ego of the HollyWEIRD media system never ceases to amaze me."

    me neither

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  6. I wouldn't be surprised if they want to take out the "2". It just kind of makes the sound a little more "official". And then people think that "2" and "3" would not be as good. There are a lot of movies that are good the first one, but super cheesy the second. Maybe it would be so maybe less people would avoid it.

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  7. okay the incredable hulk wasnt a sequal it was more of a remake because the movie "Hulk" was just plain horrible.

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  8. "The Incredible Hulk" was neither a sequel OR a "remake." It is a film adaptation of the comic book hero created and produced completely independently of the Angl Lee crapfest.

    Please get your facts straight, guys.

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