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Synopsis: This theatrical movie based on the television series (which was also based on a popular multiform robot toyline) did not go over very well at the box office. The movie takes place in 2005, twenty years after the television series, and chronicles the efforts of the heroic Autobots to defend their homeworld Cybertron from the evil Decepticons. Both factions are seething with anger, and that hatred has blinded them to a hideous menace headed their way. That hideous menace is the colossal planet known as Unicron, who has been ready to consume anything that stands in its way. The only thing that can stop Unicron is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which is possessed by the Autobots and which the Decepticons, through Unicron's orders, plan to take away from them.
Director(s): Nelson Shin
Production: De Laurentiis Entertainment Gr
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
PG
Year:
1986
84 min
1,045 Views


DANIEL:

Let's watch Ironhide land it, Hot Rod!

As Daniel runs to small skateboard-like device, hits a button,

and watches, it transforms into a hoverboard and rides it, like a

surfer up a steep, grassy hillside we change angle to feature...

HOT ROD:

an "adolescent" Autobot. He is in robot mode, sitting with his

fishing rod held between two fingers, looking bored with it all.

HOT ROD:

Talk about dull......!

Then, he tosses the rod into the water.

ON DANIEL RIDING HIS HOVERBOARD UP THE HILL

DANIEL:

(calling excitedly)

Hurry or we'll miss it!

HOT ROD:

lopes up hill after Daniel.

HOT ROD:

If you're gonna ride, Dan-O ...ride in style!

Hot Rod catches up with Daniel, scoops him off his hoverboard,

TRANSFORMS to automotive mode and RIDES OVER CREST OF HILL with

Daniel in the front seat.

ANOTHER ANGLE - ON AUTOBOT CITY

FOLLOW Hot Rod up and over a roadway leading around the perimeter

of Autobot City which becomes visible the instant Hot Rod clears

the rim of a hill. As they travel, we SHOULD also be getting a

sense of what Autobot City is all about.

(DESIGN NOTE:
Autobot City looks like a federal energy project

gone mad. Here, the Autobots are trying to exploit every known

means of getting energy. The mountain is covered with solar

panels, windmills spin in the valley, oil derricks pump, and not

far away a hydroelectric dam catches millions of volts. Near all

of these various things are energon compressors, which turn the

raw energy into energon cubes.

IN THE BACKGROUND of these scenes, we should see various panel

truck-type Autobots cruise up in auto mode to stacks of this

energon, convert to humanoid mode, load up their vans, then

convert to Auto mode again and drive the Energon into Autobot

City.

In short, it should be clear that the purpose of Autobot City is

to harvest energy.

All the while, Hot Rod and Daniel are riding recklessly out from

the Autobot City and up into neighboring hills for an overview of

the -

CIRCULAR LANDING AREA

which resides within the "bowl" created by the City structure and

natural surroundings.

DANIEL:

Hey! Let me out.

HOT ROD:

Why settle for a peek when you can see

everything from Lookout Mountain?

DANIEL:

But we're not supposed to go beyond City

limits!

HOT ROD:

Chromo-Chicken!

ON KUP AND OTHER AUTOBOTS

KUP - a grizzled, "old Soldier" of an Autobot - is directing the

positioning of a large metal road barricade.

Hot Rod barrels through a sign which reads: "STOP -THIS AREA OFF

LIMITS", almost knocking Kup over in dust and wind

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Ron Friedman

Ron Friedman (born Ronald I. Friedman August 1, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American television and film producer and writer most known for his work on such animated television shows as G.I. Joe, The Transformers and the Marvel Action Hour as well as shows Iron Man and Fantastic Four as well as the animated film The Transformers: The Movie. more…

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