Email to a friend | Print Friendly *With the summer blockbuster roster being full of sequels, it’s good to know that change is in the line-up. “Transformers,” the movie based on the very popular ‘80s cartoon and Japanese toy, opens this Tuesday, July 3rd in theaters nationwide. The huge cast including Shia LeBouf, Anthony Anderson, Tyrese Gibson, and John Voight, was recruited for the film to take on the epic story of a war waged on Earth between two robotic clans of the planet Cybertron: the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons.
And who better to take on the epic task than the director with a resume of epic proportions, Michael Bay. “Finally working with Michael and seeing how he is on the set – he's a bit crazy,” Anderson said of the perfectionist helmer. “But to see Michael work and to watch him go through his process and to see the finished product, it shows that he knew what he was doing.
To be a part of it was magical and great, and to see it the way that it came together just lets you know that he one of the best around.” Anthony Anderson Tyrese Gibson at Transformers' premiere after-party Co-star Gibson agreed that Bay is good at what he does and was the right man for the job, even though the atmosphere was stressful at times. “Michael Bay is intense; he is extremely intense all the time,” Gibson said.
“If you can imagine someone holding a gun to your head for 12 hours a day, that feeling that you’re about to die any second, that’s the feeling you have. He knows what everybody is supposed to be doing and one mistake can mess up a shot. So he keeps everybody sharp.
But you understand his process. But when an opportunity happens like that, you really have to go out of your way to make sure they like what you do in the movie. So it was intense.
” “Transformers” the TV show and the accompanying toy line were a big hit in the 1980s, however the film is expected to not only attract the Gen-Xers who grew up with the animated robot warriors, but to bring in the young crowd, too. “I grew up watching this carton and playing with the toys,” Anderson said. “But even before the film, my son had transformers.
I would tell him how they used to make them back in the day. We can sit back and play with them together and I can take him to the premier and we can watch this together and watch me be a part of it. It’s just exciting all around for me.
” Gibson also chimed in that he was a big fan of the show, not to mention all the cartoons that flourished on TV screens in the ‘80s, but agreed that some of the movie's differences might irk “Transformer” geeks. “I grew up as a big fan of ‘The Transformers,’ ‘Thundercats,’ ‘GI Joe,’ ‘He-Man,’… ‘Care Bears,” he joked. “But I think any real die-hard ‘Transformers’ fan is going to figure out a way to not like the movie.
” Both Gibson and Anderson admitted that their favorite Transformer was main iron giant Optimus Prime, who was voiced by Peter Cullen in the TV version. And both actors said they were more than excited to find out that Cullen had signed on to voice the character in the film. “I was just as excited as everybody else was when they found out that they were casting Peter Cullen to be the voice of Optimus Prime.
You can’t have anybody else be that voice,” he said. “It took me back and sitting there and watching the film, was just amazing.” Also, you can catch Anthony Anderson in the new Fox drama “K-Ville,” about police officers patrolling the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Next up for Gibson is a tour in December called the “Shirts Off Tour.” He’ll be doing the worldwide tour as the group TGT, which stands for Tyrese, Ginuwine, and Tank, with an album from the trio coming soon. For more on “Transformers,” check www.
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