Green Lantern screenwriter Marc Guggenheim has just completed his latest draft based on Greg Berlanti and Michael Green’s script. He took a few moments to talk to SciFi Wire about the writing process and where the movie is at.
“You know I really can’t [say anything],” he said. “I’ve sworn a blood oath of secrecy in relation to the project. But, you know, the thing I can tell you is that it is a very loving and respectful approach.”
“The goal here is to do the best cinematic representation of the Green Lantern character. You know, there’s no desire on anyone’s part to completely change the character and just call this other character Green Lantern and try to … draft off the name recognition. This is all about ‘How do we bring the best version of this character to the silver screen?’”
“We’ve drawn heavily from … a lot of different sources in terms of the comic books. … The character … is several decades old, so … we’ve really had an incredible amount of source material to cherry-pick from.“
We’ll be hosting a blow by blow live Twitter event from a British IMAX (the proper type) screening of Revenge of the Fallen at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PDT, 12:30am EDT). It is sure to include a whole host of spoilers. If it didn’t constitute as piracy there would be pictures too. Follow us on Twitter as we report on the Transformers 2 movie as it unfolds in front of us.
Spotify is a desktop application that allows you to listen to any music you like, whenever you like, full albums if you wish — it’s legal and free. It has recently put online the Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack so you can listen to the whole thing through from New Divide to Cheap Trick!
Spotify Direct Listen Link: ROTF Album
What is Spotify?
For those of you in the UK, the soundtrack is already available for purchase:
Transformers 2 Soundtrack (£7.99, MP3)
And to highlight the awesomeness of Spotify, here’s the track I have on right now:
You Love Her Coz Shes Dead — Blood Lust
The official Michael Bay site has offered up some facts and figures about Revenge of the Fallen, please beware of spoilers. Devastator packs a punch of 390mph and he is one (or seven if you count the parts) of the 46 robots in the Transformers sequel.
Robots
* 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
* If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
* Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
* Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
* The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
* All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
* Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
* If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.
Disk space
* TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
* 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.
Rendering times
* If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s première!
* A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
* IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
Imax
* Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
* Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
* IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
ILM screen time
ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.
Devastator
* Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
* Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
* Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.
Devastator totals
* Number of geom pieces: 52632
* The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
* The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
* The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles
TFG2 keep rolling out the awesome looking concept art for Transformers 2. This time around it’s the ever goofy Skids character in his radioactive green.
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