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[LordOfLore]

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Michael Bay has directed four Transformers film and returns to direct the upcoming fifth movie Transformers: The Last Knight, but he won’t be back for Transformers 6. Up until now he has been pretty much the sole creative voice for the franchise. Despite each film being critically lambasted, they’ve been wildly successful at the box-office with the franchise grossing more than $3.7 billion worldwide.

Transformers: The Last Knight will mark a bit of a departure, however, as Paramount put together a writer’s table headed by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman to create a shared universe with a more expansive mythology. This upcoming film will be the first film to lay the seeds for spin-off films including one about Bumblebee set in the 1980s, an animated prequel film set on Cybertron, and possibly one set in ancient Rome.

The fifth film in the franchise will also mark the departure of Michael Bay. In an interview with Fandango, the director said that The Last Knight will definitely be his last. Here’s what he told the outlet:

“These movies that I’ve done, they are massive movies. They take a lot out of you,” Bay said when we asked if he was finally — for real, this time — stepping away from the Transformers franchise. “I’ve done it enough, and I’ve had a great time doing it. I’m going out with a bang on this one, and I feel like you gotta go out while you’re ahead, you know. I think I’ve had a good run, and I’ve got a lot of other movies I want to do.”

As for what films he would like to do next, he seems to be attracted to something more adult and violent. He continued:

“I just read a very bloody hit man movie that was a page turner. That seems like a fun one to do. I love doing 13 Hours, I love doing Pain & Gain — I think it’ll be something more serious and more adult, I guess.”

He wasn't supposed to come back for 3 and 4 so...

 

[LiK]

This dude can't stay away. I'll believe it when I see it.

I wish they rebooted this mess.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

The streets need you on Bad Boys 3 Michael.

 

[strafer]

He will be back

 

[Toa TAK]

He said this before. In fact, he said this while doing this one not long ago.

What I'm trying to say is

YEA RIGHT

 

[LordOfLore]

Oh, and some spoilers from the movie are floating around now like

Spoiler

Unicron being Earth like in Prime.

 

[Novocaine]

Justin Lin, do it

 

[Dead]

Oh, and some spoilers from the movie are floating around now like

Spoiler

Unicron being Earth like in Prime.

Called this from the 1st or 2nd trailer. Seemed obvious.

 

[illamap]

Last knight is probably the last from bay since next one supposed to come 2019 + bumblebee in 2018.

 

[LinkAndEpona]

... there's gonna be a 6th entry??

Wow

 

[MattKeil]

Heard that one before.

 

[LordOfLore]

Called this from the 1st or 2nd trailer. Seemed obvious.

There's also

Spoiler

24 knights of the round table in the past(12 humans and 12 transformers), Wahlberg is the titular last knight and not Optimus or another transformer etc.

 

[shira]

There's also

Spoiler

24 knights of the round table in the past(12 humans and 12 transformers), Wahlberg is the titular last knight and not Optimus or another transformer etc.

Lul

 

[eizarus]

We need Bay to produce a Snyder directed Transformers. Easy 10/10 movie with perfect action.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Wait, was Pain & Gain seriously not a parody of his own movies?

Like, was he seriously trying to make a serious film with that?

 

[Sojgat]

Please mean it this time.

13 Hours was good.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Get Snyder to do it and let Bay make a sequel to The Rock (starring Mark Wahlberg and the Rock).

 

[Discotheque]

There's also

Spoiler

24 knights of the round table in the past(12 humans and 12 transformers), Wahlberg is the titular last knight and not Optimus or another transformer etc.

lmaooo yesss. make the prequel and have Mark Wahlberg's old ancestor (played by himself) as King Arthur please.

 

[Sir Doom]

Here's another $$$ on top of your previous pay
Bay: okay I'll do it again

 

[Aggelos]

Of course he'll be back.
He shot 98% of Transformers the Last Knight using IMAX 3D cameras. What about the rest 2%? He cannot leave this slide like that, can't he now?
He'll be back to shoot Transformers 6 with IMAX 3D in its entirety.

https://vimeo.com/221882845

 

[DeathyBoy]

There's also

Spoiler

24 knights of the round table in the past(12 humans and 12 transformers), Wahlberg is the titular last knight and not Optimus or another transformer etc.

For fuck sake

 

[shira]

Justin Lin, do it

The Rock's GIJOE charachter in or out?

 

[J_Viper]

Didn't he only do 3 & 4 to get funding for Pain & Gain as 13 Hours?

 

[Falchion]

He's been doing these for so long I remember when he threatened to not direct the second movie unless the original Transformers was released on both HD disc standards during the format war.

 

[davepoobond]

The animated prequel sounds promising maybe

 

[sphagnum]

Oh, and some spoilers from the movie are floating around now like

Spoiler

Unicron being Earth like in Prime.

This was so obvious but I'm glad they finally did it.

 

[Novocaine]

The Rock's GIJOE charachter in or out?

In OFC

 

[Snaku]

I give zero fucks one way or the other at this point, the damage has already been done.

Short of a full reboot, faithful to G1, with Vince DiCola and Stan Bush doing the soundtrack, I'm done with this franchise.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

This was so obvious but I'm glad they finally did t.

Earth was the baddies all along.

 

[The Kree]

I hope whomever the next director is goes with streamlined G1 designs and reboots it in the 80's.

That's all I really want.

 

[Magwik]

This was so obvious but I'm glad they finally did t.

Still don't buy it with how much Bay was against it

 

[Slayven]

I hope whomever the next director is goes with streamlined G1 designs and reboots it in the 80's.

That's all I really want.

I hope the next director keeps the designs but do Omega Supreme and Power Masters. Humans linking with Transformers

 

[NYR]

Movies started to suck without Megan Fox and really started to suck without Shia. And they were awful to begin with.

 

[cinco]

I hope whomever the next director is goes with streamlined G1 designs and reboots it in the 80's.

That's all I really want.

I would openly sob and praise Jesus if this were to ever happen.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

If he was going out while he was ahead he would never have made.

'86 is still better then all the crap he pumped out.

 

[Cardon]

Oh, and some spoilers from the movie are floating around now like

Spoiler

Unicron being Earth like in Prime.

What the fuck? Damn, I can wait to watch this on Netflix while I'm drunk as hell.

 

[Frozenprince]

lmaooo yesss. make the prequel and have Mark Wahlberg's old ancestor (played by himself) as King Arthur please.

"My boy Merlin's WICKED SMAHT"

 

[Toa TAK]

You all are asking for rebooted designs n shit when you should be asking for one of these to have a good story at the very, very, least.

G1 designs don't count for shit if the robots keep getting glossed over beyond action and are involved in a messy story with lame ass characters.

 

[MrCunningham]

If the movie makes $500 million worldwide or under, he will not come back.

If the movie makes anywhere between $650 to $1billion worldwide... he might return.

 

[Kusagari]

If the movie makes $500 million worldwide or under, he will not come back.

If the movie makes anywhere between $650 to $1billion worldwide... he might return.

So he might return

 

[Dash_Riprock]

We need Bay to produce a Snyder directed Transformers. Easy 10/10 movie with perfect action.

Get Snyder to do it and let Bay make a sequel to The Rock (starring Mark Wahlberg and the Rock).

Only if Optimus gets raped by Megatron in the 2nd act.

 

[Snaku]

We need Bay to produce a Snyder directed Transformers. Easy 10/10 movie with perfect action.

No we need a George Miller directed G1 Transformers.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Wait, was Pain & Gain seriously not a parody of his own movies?

Like, was he seriously trying to make a serious film with that?

Yes he was actually being serious. He was also being serious when having characters in a movie comment on how someone had been mean to him, prompting said 'mean lady' to suddenly be back in TMNT. That's not a coincidence, that's "please don't sue us".

 

[sphagnum]

I hope whomever the next director is goes with streamlined G1 designs and reboots it in the 80's.

That's all I really want.

They already have more movies planned for this universe. Next one is a Bumblebee spinoff. Full steam ahead!

I hope the next director keeps the designs but do Omega Supreme and Power Masters. Humans linking with Transformers

I feel like that's the direction they're going in with the drone TFs from AoE and that Metal Gear thing in the trailer. Eventually there have to be humans piloting their own Transformers.

 

[Ninjimbo]

Michael Bay is a pretty cool director. I want to see him get away from Transformers just to see what he else could do.

 

[AuthenticM]

Justin Lin, do it

yes

and bring The Rock.

 

[J_Viper]

Justin Lin, do it

Lin went from directing some of the best action scenes in F5, to some of the most bland and ineffective in Star Trek Beyond

I wonder how he'd handle giant robots

 

[SkyMasterson]

The animated prequel sounds promising maybe

Yea, looking forward to that. Wish it were being done with ILM though. Could you imagine!? I know, it would expensive as shit though haha.

 

[captainraincoat]

he will be busy directing Bad Boys 3 me thinks

 

[B33]

ha ha, okay