Tag: Alex Kurtzman
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Why Soundwave Was Left Out Of The 2007 Transformers Movie
There are few Transformers more famous than Soundwave and it’s almost all thanks to the original cartoon. In that series, he was portrayed as more robotic than the other Decepticons; his voice (provided by Frank Welker and a vocoder effect) was electronic and his speech patterns were mechanical. Since Soundwave was less expressive than his…
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The First Draft Of Transformers Barely Contained Any Actual Transformers
For good or ill, “Transformers” broke new ground in creating photorealistic computer-generated characters and, in turn, splicing them into live-action footage. It’s hard to imagine “The Avengers” in a world where the Autobots and Decepticons don’t battle it out in the so-called Mission City. However, working in uncharted waters always leads to challenges in conceptualization.”Transformers”…
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This Is the One Tom Cruise Stunt That Failed to Impress
2017’s The Mummy is a mess for a number of reasons. For starters, the supernatural action reboot was supposed to launch the Dark Universe, a interconnected Universal monster movie franchise akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But after the film’s abysmal box office performance, the Dark Universe immediately ended, putting to bed Russell Crowe’s Jekyll…