I made it onto WarrenEllis.com. My fame is now assured.

Although I'm not sure that's anything to be proud of.

But after a few months of people telling me how great the Transformers movie was and crediting Michael Bay for making it good, I get a sense of enormous satisfaction from an interview that's just appeared with ILM's CGI artist Cameron Folds.

"Originally, the whole "Boy and his Car" premise was quite literal. Don Murphy's message board for the fans during pre-production may have saved this movie. It was literally going to be Sam and Mikaela as a War of the Worlds scenario unfolded all around them. The occasional legs and whatnot shown. We were lucky to get the characterization we did get.

This is because that was the only way Michael Bay could stomach the concept."

Makes the couple of years I spent with Don and the other guys on the boards desperately trying to get Speilberg and Bay to understand that what makes Transformers interesting is Transformers worthwhile.

Spent about three hours shooting the breeze with the Transformers movie producer, Don Murphy, where he was kind enough to answer an absolute raft of questions.

Here's the highlights, and even that's a lot.

Lots of news on the cast, progress in the movie and just what characters we can expect to see..

Don: When I was a kid I'd be watching Abbott and Costello or Bowery Boys films back on Ch 5 or 11 in NY.
Now my beautiful wife is awfully ill and needs taking care of.
Hey guess what- we have started to work on cool ComiCon stuff for TF- I will announce when I can.
Hey ya know, you hard core guys, I love ya, and think you are all great.
We have started some pre-visualization on the film- preliminary- looks fab.
Hasbro needs to start the toy line in the next month to make the deadline to have toys out a month before our film.

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