Transformers: The Last Knight Pitch Meeting

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**Transformers: The Last Knight Pitch Meeting** is the nineteenth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant. It is the first Transformers movie to have a Pitch Meeting episode made about it.

## Description

They'll be pumping out Transformers movies until the end of time. In this one, Optimus Prime is brainwashed and turned evil. Turning him good again is super easy, barely an inconvenience. The story revolves around finding Merlin's staff or something. Oh yeah, and the Earth is a transformer. So there's kind of a lot going on. There's a lot of classic Transformers action and Anthony Hopkins is in it for some reason. So overall, fantastic movie.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notices

* This is the first Pitch Meeting where Producer Guy uses the catchphrase "Oh, [X] is tight!".
* This is one of the few Pitch Meetings where "Super easy, barely an inconvenience" is said by Producer Guy.

**Producer Guy:** So, you have a new *Transformers* script for me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do, and after five movies I think this'll be the last one.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[smugly]* Mm-hm.

**Producer Guy:** *[visible confusion]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[holding in a laugh]*

**Producer Guy:** Aha, you're messing with me.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Uh-huh, yeah, I am. We're gonna be making these movies 'til we're dead!

**Producer Guy:** *[laughs]* I already feel dead. On the inside.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Same here, my man. I forget what it feels like to have a soul.

**Producer Guy:** A what? *[laughs]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[laughs]*

**Producer Guy:** *[laughs]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[laughs] [sobs]*

**Producer Guy:** So anyway, what happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well you know how everybody loves Optimus Prime?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well in this movie he's gonna be like brainwashed and turned evil.

**Producer Guy:** Oh wow, that actually sounds pretty awesome!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and so then after that, you know, he's barely gonna be in it.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, interesting choice.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, because I thought "Hey, what if Optimus Prime was evil?" and then that's as far as that thought went.

**Producer Guy:** Fair enough. Is it gonna be hard to turn him nice again?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No no no, super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, well Bumblebee goes "Hey Optimus, it's me, Bumblebee." and so you know, that does the trick, pretty much immediately.

**Producer Guy:** Great! So what happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Ah, same old.

**Producer Guy:** Same old?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, you know everybody wants to get their hands on a thing that can destroy the Earth and this time it's a staff.

**Producer Guy:** Ooh, staffs are tight!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but this isn't just any staff, it's Merlin's staff.

**Producer Guy:** Merlin? Like the legendary wizard Merlin?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's right.

**Producer Guy:** How does that work?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well essentially we're gonna say that transformers have been on Earth for thousands of years. And so every legend or historical event has to do with them in some way.

**Producer Guy:** But didn't we say in the first movie that the transformers came to Earth to find the Allspark?

**Screenwriter Guy:** We did say that.

**Producer Guy:** Well then maybe you should find a way to respect the mythology that you yourself established.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[outraged]* Wha- But I don't wanna do that!

**Producer Guy:** *[backing off]* Okay, okay! It's fine!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay, good.

**Producer Guy:** Any other new stuff I should know about?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well there's a little kid named Izabella in this one.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, what does she do?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Practically nothing.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also the Earth is a transformer!

**Producer Guy:** What.

**Screenwriter Guy:** The Earth is a transformer, I don't know.

**Producer Guy:** *[brief stunned silence]* What?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I mean, full disclosure, I kinda let my five-year-old nephew write part of this one.

**Producer Guy:** Aw, you did! That's cute!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he actually had some good ideas.

**Producer Guy:** Like what?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[looking at the script]* Like for example he says that the army guys go pew-pew-pew-pew. And I thought that was really good.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, the *army guys* go pew-pew-pew-pew; I like that!

**Screenwriter Guy:** It does make sense if you think about it.

**Producer Guy:** And are we gonna do anything new in the transformers' fight scenes?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, not really. It's still gonna look like you tossed some electronics in a wood chipper and just kinda watch that for a while.

**Producer Guy:** Very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And hey, I was thinking… *[sighs]* Never mind.

**Producer Guy:** What is it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nah, it's dumb.

**Producer Guy:** No. Come on. Tell me.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well I thought I'd be cool to get like a really well-respected actor in this one, but it's like the fifth *Transformers* movie so it's gonna be impossible to do that.

**Producer Guy:** Actually, super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Hey, I say that!

**Producer Guy:** Oh, I've literally never heard you say that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* Um.

**Producer Guy:** Anyway, we can get pretty much any actor we want with this technique I learned from the Russians.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, really?

**Producer Guy:** They call it "компромат".

**Screenwriter Guy:** What's that about?

**Producer Guy:** Basically you just get your hands on some compromising material about someone and then you can get them to do whatever you want.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, so like blackmail.

**Producer Guy:** Yeahyeahyeah, right!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Wow, people do that in Hollywood?

**Producer Guy:** Oh, yeah. How do you think they got Al Pacino to do *Jack and Jill*? Or Robert De Niro to do *Rocky & Bullwinkle*? Or Al Pacino and Robert De Niro to do *Righteous Kill*? Or Robert De Niro to do *Shark Tale*? Or Robert De Niro to do *Little Fockers*? Or Robert De Niro to do *The Comedian*? Or Robert De Niro to do *Dirty Grandpa*?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Wow. They must have a lot of dirt on De Niro.

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah, he's… he's done some stuff.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So who do you wanna blackmail to be in this movie?

**Producer Guy:** Oh, you know who I bet I can get some dirt on?

*[cut to headline: **Transformers: The Last Knight Casts Anthony Hopkins**]*