Lorenzo di Bonaventura
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura (born January 13, 1957) is an American film producer, long-time collaborator of Michael Bay, and the godfather of pretty much every single blockbuster Transformers film. During the 1990s he served as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, climbing up the ranks to become President of Worldwide Production. While at Warner, some of his more noteworthy accomplishments included discovering and overseeing the production of The Matrix trilogy of movies (which starred Hugo Weaving) (yay!) as well as securing the rights to the Harry Potter series (boo!) before leaving in 2002 to form his own production company. For the next twenty years, he stewarded the film arm of the Transformers brand at the helm of the self-titled Di Bonaventura Pictures (in association with Paramount) through hell or high water, where he continues to this day.
Outside of the Transformers brand, some of his other projects include all three G.I. Joe films, Keanu Reeves' cult classic Constantine, the fourth sequel to The Hunt for Red October, and Madame Web.
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Producer
- Transformers (2007)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Transformers: The Last Knight
- Bumblebee
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- Transformers One
Actor
Notes
- Di Bonaventura's enthusiasm for the broad strokes of Transformers lore and approximate knowledge of many scripts have resulted in a reputation amongst the fandom for eccentric answers when fielding story questions in interviews. Things took a turn for the adversarial in the late 2010s, when the combination of the film series spicing up its chronology and nerds inheriting the earth in the wake of the runaway success of projects like the Marvel Cinematic Universe led to him being seemingly cursed by a witch to get constant questions from real journalists about which in-progress films were "canon" to each other. We would do well to remind readers the next time that he gets mined for clickbait that:
- As a money man, scripting is not his job and his answers to story questions should not be considered final or precise.
- The beauty of the construction of the Transformer multiverse is that everything "counts" to everything else, regardless of what happens in any individual project.
- "It's just a show, and I should really relax."
- Lorenzo cites Ironhide as his favorite character he's worked on, finding his enthusiasm for exploding things oddly endearing. Ironhide is also the favorite of one of his sons, who has never quite forgiven him for killing him off in Dark of the Moon.[1]
- He also has a fondness for Mini-Cons.[2]
References
- ↑ June 2024 TFWiki interview with Di Bonaventura (along with director Josh Cooley) for Transformers One
- ↑ July 2009 "Latest on Transformers 3 with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura" interview with Rotten Tomatoes
External links
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the Internet Movie Database
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura at Wikipedia
- Di Bonaventura Pictures at Wikipedia
Interviews
- July 2007—Transformers At The Moon
- July 2009—Rotten Tomatoes
- June 2021—The Hollywood Reporter (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, and Dominique Fishback)
- April 2023—Collider
- May 2023—Geek Culture
- May 2023—Paramount Pictures (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Peter Cullen)
- June 2023—Collider (incomplete transcript)
- June 2023—Collider
- June 2023—CGR Cinémas (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Tobe Nwigwe)
- June 2023—Black Girl Nerds (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Tobe Nwigwe)
- June 2023—JoBlo Celebrity Interviews (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Tobe Nwigwe)
- June 2023—Variety (with Steven Caple Jr.)
- June 2023—Business Insider (with Steven Caple Jr.)
- June 2023—GSCinemas (with Steven Caple Jr., Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Tobe Nwigwe)
- June 2023—Entertainment Weekly (with Steven Caple Jr.)
- June 2024—TFWiki (with Josh Cooley)
- October 2024—Triple Takeover Toycast (with Josh Cooley)
