Will the film address Optimus Primes Jewish heritage?
DeSanto: Yes it does. We are at Optimus’ briss. [Laughs] It’s in a flashback sequence and there is a special appearance by Stewie who is actually the Moyle. I’m kidding. No. That’s the great thing though, all of the people who love pop culture are putting all of these ‘Transformer’ references in their work. I’m buddies with Seth Green who does ‘Robot Chicken’ and they get more mail about the ‘Transformer’ stuff than anything else that they do which is great. There is a reason that twenty something years later we’re talking about these characters. There is a lot of pop culture stuff from that time that we’re not talking about, but these characters are special and this movie is going to be special too. It’s one of those things where catching lightening in a bottle is pretty good. We know that Optimus Prime of old had that sort of John Wayne spirit. How will the new Optimus Prime reflect that sort of spirit? DeSanto: See, it’s interesting to me. I think that John Wayne is more Ironhide. N
