Michael Bay, the producer of the first three Transformer films, says that he has been in discussions of broadening and redesigning the film series.
“We’re going to start off smaller. There’s a brand new cast. To freshen the franchise we’ve redesigned everything from top to bottom. The history of the first three movies is still there, we start four years later and there’s a reason why we’re meeting a new cast,” Bay told Forbes.
But wait, he’s not stopping there! If Bay wasn’t busy enough already, hi next film, Pain & Gain, will star The Rock and Mark Wahlberg.
“Mark is really excited about it and it’s a great redesign,” he explained. “I said that three was going to be my last one. Paramount was letting me do Pain & Gain and the Transformers ride was opening at Universal and it was bittersweet to think of passing it off. I wanted to set it up on a really sure footing and to bring someone else in on that, it would have been overwhelming.”
Bay just couldn’t come to terms to passing on the franchise. Instead the new film will be an extension and uplifting of the franchise.
When asked if the new film will be a reboot of the series, Bay responded, “No, that’s wrong. We keep the Transformers the way they were, it’s just four years later. There’s a reason the Transformers are redesigned. We’re trying to broaden the franchise and give it more places to go.”
You can expect to see Pain & Gain in theaters this April, while Transformers 4 will be released in Summer 2014.
