This article appears in the new issue ofDEN OF GEEKmagazine.
Films likeThe LandandA Different Tree.
Even his most recent film,Creed II, only features fights on a decidedly human scale.
But Paramount believed this made him the perfect name to take over the coreTransformersfranchise after Michael Bays departure.
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That was my first introduction to it.
Watching a VHS tape at a friends house, and that got me hooked, Caple remembers.
He relished the opportunity to expand theTransformersuniverse beyond humans, Decepticons, and Autobots.
I thought it was time to step out and build out into the universe.
So thats where the Maximals and Terrorcons and other factions come into play, he says.
You have a different relationship with vehicles, he says.
With animals, even in the cartoon, theres a sensitivity to it.
Theres an emotional connection.
Caple also offers a new perspective on familiar characters.
I want to see a different [Optimus] Prime, he says.
If we show Machu Pichu, were going to Machu Pichu and shooting at Machu Pichu, he says.
I wanted to speak Quechua; I wanted to dive into the culture.
There were also challenges; filming in jungles and at high altitudes where oxygen was thin was one thing.
So Caple had to adapt to that as well.
Caple also wants to expand theTransformersuniverse in a far more literal sense.
I feel like this was the foundation of that, of something really special.
Transformers: Rise of the Beastshits theaters on June 9.
