December 14, 2004 - Comics2Film points out this interview that TFormers.com, the self-proclaimed "World's Largest Transformers News Site," conducted with producer Don Murphy wherein he discusses the live-action feature version of the popular toy, comic book and cartoon franchise.

While Murphy is not terribly revealing, the interview does include some interesting tidbits of information about the movie. According to the producer, the story is the set in the American Southwest and Optimus Prime will be the character most explored onscreen. He adds that Cybertron will be seen as well.

The origins of the Transformers will be explored in "enough detail." When asked whether there will be other characters appearing in the movie besides G1 characters, Murphy said "there are already many G1 characters that will get short shrift so let's stick with them."

Murphy also says Transformers will not necessarily cater to the kiddies. "I always believe you get the 14-16 Star Wars audience (the good films) and you get everybody."

For Murphy, however, the most exciting thing to have happened in the film's development so far was "finding out in a meeting that [DreamWorks head and exec producer Steven] Spielberg knows the mythology stone cold perfectly."

In related news, Murphy said in a posting at his official site that "I love League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but we got killed by fans because, honestly, I didn't believe they were out there. The comic is read by like 40,000 people – but yet they were all very vocal or something. Transformers has millions of fans. I know we won't make every one freakin' jubilant. But you all are having an ENORMOUS effect already."