De Transformers film werd al enige tijd geleden aangekondigd, een project dat geproduceerd gaat worden door Steven Spielberg. Michael Bay, wiens nieuwe film The Island vanaf augustus in Nederland gaat draaien, staat genoteerd voor de regie, maar verder is er nog weinig bekend om de verfilming van het Hasbro-speelgoed.

Alex Kurtzman en Roberto Orci zijn aangesteld om het script voor de film te schrijven, maar zij gaan zich eerst bezig houden met Mission: Impossible 3. De nog titelloze Transformers-film staat vooralsnog gepland voor 2006.

[eng]"Transformers is very tricky, because it's a movie based on a toy line. The first question you have to ask yourself is what's the movie? We sat down with Steven Spielberg, and we said that the action scenes in this movie are a given, but he said that that it's the story of a boy and his car and that he wants to bring back the old Amblin movies. It's Back to the Future…great! We're in!

It's a real challenge, because the key to making those movies work--and I totally think it's why War of the Worlds works so well--is to be so invested in the people and to maintain the subjectivity of the humans. If you start Transformers with giant robots sitting in a spaceship flying through space, your movie is dead in the water. It's all about keeping it at a human level, and seeing the amazing things that are going on through the eyes of the characters."[/eng]

Gevraagd naar welke personages in de film te zien zullen zijn, antwoordden de heren het volgende:

[eng]"The staple characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Jazz. There's going to be a lot of them. You're going to have ten Transformers in that movie, and if that's not enough, you can go see 2, 3, 4 or 5."[/eng]