Many wondered if it was in fact a coincidence that Michael Bay began production for the film Pain and Gain - a title that has been very difficult for him to get produced and financed - around the same time that his name was locked in to direct Transformers 4.
Sure, the first three installments of Transformers went on to earn more than $2.7 billion worldwide, which naturally dictates the studio keep the money train going. However, when a director says he is done with a franchise so that he can pursue other things – and then that changes tune when his passion project beings production – it’s a very interesting series of events, indeed. Now that he is officially helming the project, Bay has confirmed several key details on the upcoming film that should make Transformers fans happy.
Despite the uncertainty of some cast members returning when news first hit about TF4, Peter Cullen will definitely be reprising his role as the voice of Optimus Prime. We also now know that the film will not be a total reboot, and will not jump ahead years from where the plot ended in the last one. Rather, it will be starting where the 3rd film left off on the Chicago streets, and will be taking things forward from there.
Transformers 4 will also introduce us to a new cast – on both the human and robot front, could possibly head off-planet, and (we’ve been told) will be ‘more serious.‘ Previously described as the opening chapter of a brand new trilogy, concrete details on the film are still scant at the moment.
When Bay was asked why he is doing Transformers 4 by HuffPo (when everyone thought he was finished) he responded:
” I thought I was done. Then the ride came out [at Universal Studios Hollywood] and the two-and-a-half-hour lines. And then you’re thinking, Oh my God, someone’s going to take this over. And you start doing a lot of soul-searching. Like, OK, I’m about to do a little movie, “Pain & Gain” … and the studio says they want to restart the franchise. And someone could come in here and screw it up, you know? So I’m thinking that if I do this last one, we set it on a new footing, we change a lot of things — but we keep the history of the three in place. But we broaden it so it can be set up and be carried on — it would have a better chance for survival, I guess. You know?”
“So it was just one of those things. It’s like, when you look what’s going on in the film business with the franchise frenzy right now, why is Cameron doing two more “Avatar” movies? Why is Peter Jackson doing three more “Hobbit” movies that are in the same world as “Lord of the Rings”? When you have a franchise, it’s very hard to give it up.”
The movie he’s been fervently trying to make, Pain and Gain, is set to release in April 2013 and is about two bodybuilders (played by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson), who get wrapped up in a kidnapping scheme. After all these blockbusters, it will be interesting to see Bay tackle a project that he describes as, “a dark comedy” and “a ‘Pulp Fiction’-type of movie.”
When Bay states that this fourth installment, “is probably the last one,“ we apparently must take that with a grain of salt. What do you think about Bay directing Transformers 4 and all the film updates we just revealed? Let us know in the comments section below.
Source: Huffington Post
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“and the studio says they want to restart the franchise. And someone could come in here and screw it up, you know?” – that made me laugh so hard!
Irony is really funny sometimes…
lol, isn’t it though, had me going to.
LOL, simply put, HASBRO in the end wants a profit. Bay brings in profit because the movies he does seem to do good in the box office. HASBRO doesn’t care if Bay puts a dress on Bubblebee as long as it produces a profit. Plain and simple, HASBRO doesn’t care if the movie doesn’t follow the true Transformers storyline as long as that Bay profit keeps rolling in. People don’t like it, then they will have to not go see it. No profit, then a new storyline/producer/director/concept will develop. Simple equation
I just want to be able to tell the damn robots apart from each other. Would it KILL Bay to add some colours to their spectrum like with the toys?
yes me again,i know
i have found the movies(transf.trilogy) very fun and entertaining,and some of his 90s hits are great entertainment. why again so much hate on this man. is it his face or his character that the people don´t like or just the fact that his movies are always over the top but fun,maybe with some stupid dialouges . but that is bay´s style.
I am a great fan of Transformers, from since the 1980′s. We grew up on it, day by day. I give great credit to all Micheal Bay’s Transformers films. My favorite of them all is Revenge of the fallen, ‘I do not no why so people liked the film at first and then decided to hate it afterwards. They even convince the man Mr Bay that the film fell short. As a serius Transformers fan that film gave great credit to the franchise by introducing the matrix, while Fallen was always a deadly enemy to humans. The fallen wanted to blow up are sun to harbor energon. Fallen wanted to break the rules of the primes with his apprentice Megatron. I loved it, and back then beauty Megan Fox. I also like Dark of the Moon. It deserves to be one of the best. Shock wave is fantastic. I wonder what will happen in Transformers 4. Yes they start the film from where they left off, with new cast starring as well. I would say for Transformers 4 to bring in Unicron with a new bit and blend to the story, plus Hot Rod with his human kid pal Daniel, Krup, Ultra Madness, Jazz, the dinobots and Galvatron. The Transformers franchise will make billions, everyone loved the 1980′s cartoon movie. But this time keep Prime alive to the end util Hod Rod decides to use the matrix to become Rodimus Prime.
OK, wow. Some real fan you are. You butchered some of the names of Transformers. They are Kup, Ultra Magnus, and Shockwave.” Also, Revenge of the Fallen is not the best of the three movies. Don’t get me wrong, as I love TFs and all three movies. I will watch them any time, but the best is the third, then first, then second.
Also, how can you say Shockwave was fantastic in Dark of the Moon? He was barely in it and was killed. I was so excited when Shockwave was announced as the new villain and loved how they made him look, but he was punked out of the film. They made it seem like he was going to be the main villain instead of Megaron, but in the end, it was Megatron all the way. I like Megatron, don’t get me wrong, but I wish they gave Shockwave a much bigger role.
Going off planet is that a hint to going in space to fight Unicron!!!! Omg that would rock since orsen wells passed and wont voice Unicron how about james earl jones omg id krap in my bumblebee boxers hearing James Earl Jones say IM UNICRON
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m a hardocre Transformers and i read an article that said he was done but nooooo. This makes my day.
it’s the scary movie 3 of transformers sequels! (i’m someone who thinks SM3 is the best in the series)
Trans4mers…that should be the title…and should start getting my royalties pretty soon, you hear me, Bay?
Bring back Megan Fox
PLEASE … TELL ME … IRONHIDE COME BACK IN THIS PART OF TRANSFORMERS ?????
I LOVE IRONHIDE ….. I LOVE PRIMES !!!!
PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE …..
Can we get Beast Wars up in this b****?
Bring it on Bay!!! I’m chuffed that Michael is back for the fourth installment. Will miss Sam though and definitely think Bumblebee should be back. Big TF fan so reeeeally looking forward to it, Autobots…..roll out!!!!
if it’s sort of a reboot but in the same time frame then it might be following the 80s G1 story line,, Unicrone, Rodimus, Galvatron, Metroplex. ect. They were all same time frame but a reboot of the cartoon. sadly this means A Prime has to die.
So this means probably no femmes, more annoying “funny” humans and Ironhide most likey won’t come back too. Thx very much, HASBRO -.-
Big transformers fan, and I was very excited when Bay produced the three Transformers movies. Must say I was very pleased with the results. I wish I could see more of where they come from, their planet, how Optimus became leader of the áutobots, and how megatron became aswell. How did the war began? Maybe they can introduce a new super robot that can change from several robots into one BIG robot. Kinda dissapointed they killed Megatron, but I´m sure he´ll be back in the new Transformers movie.
But back to the question, I´m very excited Bay is back and hope of more action and fight scenes. Hope he does the movie with all his heart and think of the fans and not that this is just one more movie he must do!!!!!
thank you.
Really been wanting Wheeljack in it for the longest time be nice to see classic g1 skywarp thundercracker, brawn cliffjumper ultra Magnus blurr preceptor in it
Also how can u have sideswipe in transformers and not his brother sunstreaker in it
that would be cool if bay actually brought in the dinobots you could get so many more fans into that almost all of my friends who love transformers love the dinobots and the fact that there not so smart it would bring a very big comedy into it well I sure hope that grimlock is in the next movie bay if you read this and I hope you do it will make so many more people love it
Hell no. As cool as the Dinobots are, they don’t belong in this movie franchise. You just said it would add comedy to it, but the article above clearly says something to the effect that this movie will be more serious. There doesn’t need to be any additional comedy than there is in the other three movies. The Dinobots are unrealistic compared to the other TFs. What are they going to do, copy a skeleton of a dinosaur to get their transformation disguise? That would be lame.
Hearing this news that tf4 will not entirely take place in space and will have human characters is good! Sam has to be in here for tf4 he is essentially Daniel witwicky unless they make him Daniels dad. They should’ve kept shockwave alive he’s key. This next set should really have unicron whole next trilogy!!!!!!! You want your fan base put more original material in. Toy sales were down for last movie because Hasbro didn’t give us the toys anyone wanted to buy. Devastator that had every character that could become its own figure pus become DEVASTATOR would have been awesome! I would’ve bought for $100 brand new! No leader class vehicles for important characters no sound wave man really! Revenge how many times did we see the devastator guys all over movie as themselves while they were already devastator didn’t have time for anything else? 4th movie better have the bomb for timeline, storyline and toys. So unicron trilogy get r done bring in Ariel bots , combat a cons, predaking, sound blaster , it’s gotta be there from bay if he really wants his fans back! Galvatron is key plus going back to possible transformers origin. It’s gotta be there make cybertron more realistic again too how can he be primus with nothing but layers of what was that 5-6 sided pentagons or hexagon shapes? Really? Fan based trilogy and toyline for once please you want profits this is it more to originals you put bits and pieces in first 3 should’ve been more use for most of next 3.
Keep prime bring in galvatron bring unicorn and omega supreme Bring in cliff jumper bring in the insecticons and Dino bots and keep up the awsome work bay your my favorite director
M-Bay, Will you please bring WheelJack into the mix since he is and always will be the brains of the autobot race and he is one of the main characters too, After all he was the one who created the dinobots and he was the type of mad scientist who’s creations either turned out to be a huge success or a big failure plus he is also one of the best warriors with his hand to hand combat and gadgets, Also bring Prowl ( He was like Barricade because he formed into a police car ) in since he is O-Prime’s leading commander. Autobots who were the true Autobots should be back since none of their deaths happen in the past 3 Transformers videos, So that would just be that much easier to bring back the Autobots from the beginning comics and Cartoons, WheelJack is a big part of the Transformers, So lets see him kick ass in the Big Screen
I want PROWL in the film, and fighting against BARRICADE
I want the good PROWL police car in the movie comes and fights against BARRICADE and you know that Michael Bay,PROWL heard in the film
Michael Bay is not as talented as he thinks he is. It just happens that Transformers is very popular already with a huge fan base. Then as for the less fanatic fans or just people who couldn’t care less…its giant robots invading earth. Sometimes people similar in personality to bay take too much credit for success they had nothing to do with. Like any president in the usa takes credit for a good economy even though it was actual businesses or maybe blind luck that got the economy rolling. I personally didnt like any of the transformers movies but I was a fan of the original characters
And just FYI. I have nothing against Bay directing. His comments about others screwing it all up knd of annoyed me. I don’t see why he felt the need to put down any other director of give anyone else a fair opportunity to try. Sometimes some people think only they have a gift and not anyone else. If Bay would give credit to the men who invented transformers and all those who helped on hi film such as CGI creators, editors, writer etc…I mean those unsung people also helped make the movies profitable. In the military…noone remmebers the low ranking soldiers nams who crried out the mission….just the general who led them. I just like it when everyone shares n the credit. Thats all. Other then that..Apparently there ar people who like Bay’s work. So Bay himself has a huge following of supporters. If the majority of the public sees his movies…well he must be doing something right. Movies are like art…not everyone will like each directors artistic style. He can’t please everyone so there is no point to try The only thing I suggest is …give credit to others as well. Thats all
We need the DINOBOTS, they were promissed in the third film but we did not get them the DINOBOTS if they can do the predicons for the new movie then they can give us the DINOBOTS
Personally, if Michael Bay wasn’t directing Transformers 4, I would not want to see this movie. The sound effects and visual effects given and developed by Bay’s ideas can’t be matched for the Transformer franchise. I’m glad Peter Cullen is going with his role as Optimus Prime. The Transformers wouldn’t be Transformers without his voice as Optimus Prime. I’m not so concerned about Shia LaBeouf returning to this series. I hope that this movie brings a whole other trilogy with a whole other world of Transformers and autobots/decepticons/whatever else. I heard a rumor that they didn’t know at first what could happen based on the fact that they used everything up in the third film, but I’m perfectly fine with them adding new things to the story of Transformers, whether it was in the original stuff or not. The sounds the Transformers make is awesome, the way their language sounds, is really neat. I’m interested to see what will come next, and I can’t wait to see this film and whatever else follows.
i will say peter cullen is good to optimus prime