Writer/producer duo, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, spoke to IESB about producing their upcoming View-Master movie:
Q: Are you also doing a View-Master movie?
Orci: We’re producing it.
Kurtzman: It’s funny, when we signed on to do Transformers, there was this incredibly cynical reaction to the idea of, “Oh, it’s just a toy movie.” I would hope that, by now, people would know that we would never walk into something, if we didn’t actually have a real story behind it. The one thing, without giving away any details of about the story, is that certain toys should never be movies and certain toys should be. I think we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the difference between them.
Orci: It wasn’t born in sin. What happened is that we have a friend who wrote on Fringe, who came in and had a pitch that he wanted to do of this movie. He wasn’t even thinking of View-Master. Then, our company got a look at it and thought, “We could actually connect this with View-Master, who we know happens to be looking for someone.” It wasn’t like, “Let’s come up with a View-Master movie.” There was a great idea out there, and it was perfect to marry with View-Master.
Q: But, the Transformers were characters, and a View-Master isn’t a character, so how would that work?
Kurtzman: It depends on how you define character. Some characters are obviously human. But, the Enterprise is a character on Star Trek, even though the Enterprise never speaks.
Q: Could it be in 3-D?
Kurtzman: Oh yeah, we’d love to do it in 3-D.
Orci: That’s a good idea.
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