How difficult was it to incorporate the mythology of the Transformers cartoon series?
It was difficult. But it was made easier as we knew that it was going to be from [the character Sam’s] point of view, and that that was going to give us an access point for the person coming in – to have him meet the Transformers and somehow get the mythology out through them talking to each other. But yeah, it was a pain. Did you play with Transformer toys when you were writing the action sequences? A little bit. We had them laying around and it helped visualise it a little bit. Did Hasbro ever say to you, ‘We’d like to create this toy, please introduce it as a character’? Not really. I think maybe Michael [Bay], once he came on, might have had a conversation with Hasbro, but when we wrote it, it was all the characters we know. Was the All-Spark cube part of the original series? In the comics and in the series, they were always after some kind of an artifact from their planet. There were a million. There was the Matrix Leader Ship, there was the All-Spark, there were Energon Cubes, th
