The original Plan Of The Transformers Prime Movie

**This is about the original plan of the movie.**

The original title of the movie and the theatrical release

The original title was going to be Chaos Rising. It was firstly planned to be released in theaters,like they did with the Transformers G1 movie. So basically,this refers to the original theatrical movie the show was supposed to have while Predacons Rising was the tv movie.  Also,the show originally supposed to have a Season 4 and that mentioned movie was meant to be set after Season 4 with a possible release date by the end of 2014 or in the debut of 2015. Therefore,it was supposed to end Season 4 instead of Season 3. Therefore,it would have been the actual conclusion of Transformers Prime. Something changed in their schedule after the production of the movie,leading it to premiere on TV instead and a direct to DVD on the same day of premiere,like the official site confirmed.

The Megatronus argument

During the course of the entire series,Megatronus was always rumored or theorized to appear as the main villain at the end of each season,even going as far as being rumored to possess Megatron or even be the one who convinced Megatron to wage war on Cybertron. From possession to rising from the dead,all possibilities were taken into consideration as the show went from season to season and apparently,he might have been considered the villain for Chaos Rising. He was rumored to have returned on the restored Cybertron,either being corrupted and possessed by Unicron or by his own will and raise an army of beasts to destroy Cybertron to exact his revenge for the loss of Solus Prime and his banishment. His role was taken over by Unicron and his revenge story was kept for Transformers Robots in disguise. Megatron might have been meant to stay dead or was implied to be turned into a Sharkticon by the time according to the original season 3,season 4 and the toyline rather than a revenant possessed by Unicron. However,after some complicated changes,the possessed Megatron (Of course Unicron himself) became the villain and this is when people has started to call Megatron as ''Megatronus''. But it doesn't stop there. Other people called him Galvatron and some others simply called him Unicron. Everyone got confused on what to actually call him and because of this,it has became an argument over the character's name. In the movie,Optimus and other bots officially calls him Megatron. However,some details refers Megatron as Relevant Megatron. Same goes to Airachnid as Relevant Airachnid.

Airachnid,the Queen of the dead

As they settled on the revenant Megatron as the main villain,a revenant version of Airachnid was also meant to appear along with an army of relevant Insecticons. Megatron and Airachnid were actually going to be the king and the queen of the death. However,this was simply because Megatron wanted to make her his queen as to add up to his army of undead beasts and Airachnid was meant to be finished by the Autobots. Bombshock had a toy in the Predacons Rising toyline,which further confirmed he was originally going to appear in the movie alongside Airachnid.

Prowl and others..

Autobots such as Bluestreak,Traillcutter and Huffer were considered for the movie,with Bluestreak even appearing in the Predacons Rising toyline but they were dropped. A certain Autobot almost made it in the movie and before the release,he was heavily rumored to be in this movie,even going as far as being being depicted alongside other Autobots in Smokescreen's or Knockout's place in the Predacons Rising section of the Covenant of Primus book. That Autobot was Prowl,who was going to come back to Cybertron as he learned of its restoration and join forces with his allies to repel the undead invasion but it is unknown why he was left out of the movie. On the Decepticons' side,maybe they were meant to get little help too,but maybe from just once other Decepticon like Barricade or someone else because in the end,the main thread was'nt theirs but the undeads'.

Beasts and dinos

Aside from Prowl,even the Dinobots were once rumored for Predacons Rising because of their involvement in the Beast Hunters comics and the final issue of this comic took place after Predacons Rising. And perhaps as both follow-up to what the original plans wanted to establish and a set-up for the original sequel Prime,more than 3 alive Predacons and also Maximals were meant to be seen. Maximals were in the original plan for season 3 and 4 and so in Chaos Rising,they might have been seen. Abominus would have been seen as well,considering he had a toy in the Predacons Rising toyline.

The darkest piece of media yet

Predacons Rising ended up being a little more chilled than what was seen before in Prime but Chaos Rising was originally going to be very dark. Compared to both Prime and Beast Machines at the time,Chaos Rising was meant to end up as the darkest piece of TF media in history. Not counting the live action movies. The undead invasion was going to be more brutal than what we got and so was going to be the relevant Megatron. Revenant Airachnid and her undead Insecticons were also brutal in their own right,but in order to finish them,the Autobots had to also resort to much higher brutality in combat,resulting in a gory demise for Airachnid and her Insecticons. This was extended to the beast army too. They were meant to be much stronger and relentless,going as far as finishing one or two characters from either Autobots or Decepticons,or both sides. Revenant Megatron might have shared the courtesy with them too. This was mostly pointed out by the sudden appearance of Prowl in either Smokescreen or Knockout's place in the Covenant of Primus,as such,one if not both of them were meant to be finished by revenant Megatron and his army. Optimus was originally going to finish off Predaking at the end of Season 3 but this was scrapped out and it was suggested they would have made Optimus sacrificing himself to completely restore Cybertron in the movie. Shockwave's fate might also have been going that he was meant to be finished. Like finished for good when the undead Predacons attacked him. Hasbro either wanted to avoid having him permanently finished so they can reduce the death toll and make the movie more kid friendly or have planned to preserve him for Robots in disguise. He would've return in the cancelled sequel,anyway. And as for Starscream,his fate was also a back and forth. They would've had him actually not surviving the assault from Predaking,Darksteel and Sky-Lynx at the end of the movie,but they saved him for Robots in disguise instead. It is not certain if Revenant Megatron was meant to be also brutally finished but either way,they ended up with the redemption of Megatron instead.

Conclusion

Considering the problems with the sales and TV rating,it stands no reason that those original darker plans never came to fruition and has results into the more kid friendly version of the movie.