'Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts' Shot Two Endings. Here’s Why They Chose The One You See

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Mike Reyes' interview with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

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00:00 - GI Joe, that last scene, first of all,

00:02 bring in Michael Kelly.

00:04 I love that you brought in Michael Kelly for this role

00:05 because you bring that man and he kills anytime.

00:08 - He killed it.

00:08 - But now that we have this connection here,

00:12 is there already an idea for that

00:16 GI Joe Transformers crossover?

00:18 And what made you even think of doing that?

00:20 - We don't think of it as a crossover either,

00:22 which is interesting.

00:23 I know that, well, the terminology for me,

00:27 I find it limiting.

00:30 - Fair.

00:30 - We've been debating Joe,

00:33 the fan base has been debating it forever.

00:36 You know, they're like, "Oh, what are you gonna do?

00:38 "When are you gonna do it?"

00:38 And we've wanted to do it,

00:41 but we'd never found really an organic situation

00:44 to do it with.

00:45 So what happened in this case is when we came up

00:48 with a character who can't get a job,

00:51 it was like the greatest idea

00:52 that he's gonna get the greatest job ever, right?

00:55 And so it was really,

00:56 otherwise it feels like you're just jamming it in.

00:59 - Yeah.

00:59 - You know, it feels like it's the payoff to the movie.

01:02 - Honestly, it was.

01:03 It was just amazing to see that.

01:04 And he's got the card in his hand,

01:05 I'm thinking, "Okay, it's Nest, it's Sector 7, whatever."

01:08 - Yeah, exactly.

01:08 - He flips it and it's GI Joe.

01:09 I go jaw drops, like, "What?"

01:13 - Well, you know, what's funny is we shot two cards.

01:16 - What was the other one?

01:17 - Sector 7.

01:19 'Cause we wanted to experience it ourselves.

01:21 'Cause we were really, it was important to us

01:24 that it felt very organic.

01:25 So we didn't know until we saw it

01:28 that it was like, "Okay, it works."

01:29 You know, that we had that chill,

01:32 that tingle down the spine that like, Joe.

01:35 - Well, I was excited about it.

01:36 Like, I remember presenting it to the studio

01:39 when I first turned in the draft of the script

01:41 to the producers and everybody.

01:42 And they're like, "Whoa, this is crazy, this is a leap."

01:45 But I saw on everyone's faces

01:46 they were kind of excited about it.

01:47 Like, it led us to a new direction

01:49 and all the possibilities now went like this.

01:52 But I was just like, I feel like in terms of the,

01:55 that specific franchise,

01:56 like, that's the one where I did have the toys growing up.

01:58 I didn't have the toys of Transformers growing up.

02:00 My mom and dad never, sad face.

02:03 But in this particular case, the Joes I did have.

02:05 And I was like, "If there's a way that I can combine these

02:08 "and like create something natural and organic

02:10 "so fans could appreciate,

02:12 "but see them sort of working together, you know,

02:14 "it would be cool."

02:15 And then I'm a fan of the graphic novels too and the comics.

02:17 And there is a few special edition comics out there

02:20 that kind of hint at it.

02:21 So when I pitched it to the studio and said,

02:23 "Well, we can go with it."

02:24 They were excited about it.

02:25 It just took like two years for us to finally

02:27 get all the yeses that we need to move forward on it.

02:30 is.

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