Michael Bay Says Transformers 4 Will be His Last

[Dream]

In an interview with Hero Complex regarding "Transformers: The Ride-3D" at Universal Studios California, Michael Bay offered a small update about the series and his future with the robots in disguise:

The director, by the way, says that the fourth film will include some redesign of the robots and an entirely new cast. He also said it will be his last and set the franchise up "for the next guy."

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/170971-michael-bay-says-transformers-4-will-be-his-last

Great news! Just one more terrible shakey cam action movie left that focuses on the stupid humans instead of the bots themselves. Maybe we can finally get a decent Transformers movie starting with the fifth movie?!

 

[Roshi]

Michael Bay Says Transformers 4 Will be His Last

Yay?

 

[Sketcher]

Well, sometimes movie franchises have to wait until the 5th movie to hit their stride. I mean look at Star Wars.

 

[Gepard]

He said the same thing about the previous two films. Rest assured that this next one will make eleventy billion dollars worldwide and Paramount will drive another truckload of cash up to his door to convince him to do another one.

 

[Saul]

Yeah, he said 3 would be his last too. Also if they are going to try and reinvent this series then why not have some fresh blood do it with a new Director. There's only so many ways Michael Bay can blow something up.

 

[Dream]

Yeah, he said 3 would be his last too. Also if they are going to try and reinvent this series then why not have some fresh blood do it with a new Director. There's only so many ways Michael Bay can blow something up.

After seeing how great Joss Whedon handled Avengers, it pisses me off even more how badly the Bay's Transformers movies have turned out.

 

[JacksonArcher]

He said the same thing about Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

 

[Skywalker]

If only the first one had been his last...

 

[Admiral_Young]

Michael Bay changes his mind...or gets talked into doing more. Either of those two things, but yeah essentially he said he wouldn't return on the previous two films. I really don't know what would bring me to watch this movie this time.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

If the fourth will be his last, then it will be four too many!

 

[MacLeod]

Well it might depend on how much his pay cheque for doing a fifth would be.

 

[Gaith]

After seeing how great Joss Whedon handled Avengers, it pisses me off even more how badly the Bay's Transformers movies have turned out.

You can't possibly be suggesting they had similar potential?! Transformers movies are about massive talking robots who do nothing but fight other massive talking robots. Their suckage is practically a given; it's only the degrees that vary.

 

[Kegg]

All I want to know, and I've said this for every movie since the first one, is whether or not they will finally bring Grimlock into the movie.

After seeing how great Joss Whedon handled Avengers, it pisses me off even more how badly the Bay's Transformers movies have turned out.

You can't possibly be suggesting they had similar potential?! Transformers movies are about massive talking robots who do nothing but fight other massive talking robots.

Transformers is a deeply silly idea.

But then, so is the idea that for some reason a Norse God shows up in modern America and teams up with a guy who's good at archery and this other guy who dresses up in patriotic S&M and then someone who is, in effect, a guy in a robosuit and anyway they go fight monsters or some shit like that.

...in other words, yes, Transformers could be done better. If something as inherently ridiculous as Avengers can (allegedly, haven't seen it) get a good movie, then so can Giant Robots Punching Other Giant Robots. Not to be confused with an assertion that Transformers has ever been any good, as much as it's a childhood memory of mine.

 

[Cyrus]

Transforsmers 1 was my last.

 

[Mr Light]

Well, stupidity and all, *I* enjoy the Transformers movies and I'm looking forward to the fourth! Nobody beats the sheer visuals of a Michael Bay action movie.

 

[Trekker4747]

He also said it will be his last and set the franchise up "for the next guy."

I'm sure "the next guy" will appreciate that rather than being allowed to make the franchise his own which, really, "the next guy" will probably end up doing anyway.

Transformers Reboot in 2015!

 

[Silent_Bob]

He also said it will be his last and set the franchise up "for the next guy."

I'm sure "the next guy" will appreciate that rather than being allowed to make the franchise his own which, really, "the next guy" will probably end up doing anyway.

Transformers Reboot in 2015!

I half expect at this point for the "Next Guy" to be Paul W.S Anderson, leading to a Transformers 5 where Optimus and co. spend the movie marvelling at how wonderful Milla Jovovich is.

 

[Captain Craig]

If only the first one had been his last...

It is the best of the three.
The second film was a massive creative dissapointment imo. An opinion I think widely shared.

 

[Holdfast]

Well, sometimes movie franchises have to wait until the 5th movie to hit their stride. I mean look at Star Wars.

Yeah, AoTC was OK in places.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Oh, thank God! Good-bye, Bayformers!