Was An Early Draft Of Transformers 3 Leaked?(Updated)

Its not unknown for scripts to be leaked on the Internet, and that’s something that Bay found out when he made the first film. But, when he was filming the “Revenge of The Fallen” he thought it would be clever to leak “false information”, but that didn’t work out to well. Also, the script for the second film was leaked and that turned out to be fake.

Well, one of the writers for seibertron.com was emailed a possible “Script Treatment” for Transformers 3.

Thanks to seibertron.com for the copy of the email:

“It seems the execs at Hasbro are thrilled that the Transformers movies are making them money hand over fist.  But…  They are concerned about brand integrity.  Just as a Coca-Cola exec cringes every time a can of their product shows up in the wrong place in a porno, the good folks at Hasbro raise their eyebrows when one of their premiere brands has genitals, engages in racial stereotyping, or leg humping, etc.

 After all the blowback from the second movie, it seems Hasbro wants to go in a new direction with their signature franchise.  Michael Bay highlighted this fact on his own site, citing a five hour brainstorming session with the folks at Hasbro.  A session it seems that may have had quite an impact.

“Attached to this e-mail is an early draft of the third film.  It came to me through a chain of acquaintances.  The intent in our mission was simple, rain on Bay’s parade, yet at the same time give the fans something to hope for after the staggering train wreck of the second film.

 Back to that brainstorming session at Hasbro…  The suits quite simply wanted to try and recapture the days of old, when the brand could do no wrong.  Restore nostalgia, story, character, in short they wanted something of substance, something epic with all the fun inherent to all the animated incarnations.  Something to set up the impending 30th anniversary in 2014, a chance to cash in all over again.

 Did they get that?  Well having read this script, I would say that they’re coming closer to that goal than they have previously.  I have to keep in mind that it’s an early draft, and therefore likely to be punched up quite a bit before production begins, but if we get anything resembling the bones of this story, there may be cause for celebration.

 Of everything Transformers that has been submitted to the big screen, this offends me the least.  There are iconic references, that if they stay in, will no doubt make some very happy.  That must have been one HELL of a meeting.  Oh, one other thing.  There have also been rumors circulating about Megan Fox meeting her maker in the third film. Having read it, I think you’ll see how that rumor got started, you’ll notice there is a point in this draft where she could eat it early on…  However she does survive the crisis, and the rest of the story unfolds from there.

 If you choose to use this, call me…”

-Beachcomber”

You can read the “draft” at this link: http://tformers.net/pdf/tf-3-script-leaked.pdf.

I skimmed over and read some, but not all. It does sound good, but its most likely just fan fiction. Some poor soul with too much time on his/her hands. But, the script does have Krueger’s(who was a writer for ROTF) on it.

One thing I did like is that it gave Soundwave a bigger role, and even brought in Shockwave. But, the best part about this was that Starscream didn’t seem like a pussy in this “draft”. There was no mention of Unicron, the character everyone is expecting Bay to use. Though, that could be why “he” isn’t in there, because everyone expects the character to be.

However, odds are is that this won’t be legit. So, just take it with a grain of salt.

What do you think? Bullshit or not?

Update:  Nelson, Michael Bay’s site admin, posted “Their is a script out there being reported on TF sites as being legit. It’s fake. Amazing that someone would take so much time to write so much for nothing.”