Michael Bay Says He'll Hand Off 'Transformers 5' To Another Director
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Asked what’s next for the “Transformers ” franchise literally a few hours after he finished “Transformers: Age of Exctinction,” Michael Bay quipped half-seriously, “there’s a lot that’s unexplored, but that’s for the next director to figure out.” He added “they’re hard movies to do and it takes every day for two years. They’re fun, but they’re hard.” Bay has talked about a potential handoff in the past, saying he’d oversee a new cast and some pre-production, and then split. But it seems he meant it this time.
In an interview with USA Today, the paper says the filmmaker “believes he will pass the baton for future Transformer movies to a new director while he turns his focus elsewhere.”
"There's kind of a new chapter, a new direction in movies I want to make," Bay said. "I have a lot of stories to tell. And it's about flexing new muscles." One of those directions is a passion project, a documentary regarding elephant poaching which the filmmaker has discussed in the past.
Should this come to pass, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. One could argue that, through his Platinum Dunes production shingle, Bay has already handed off projects to some of his younger protégés, like Jonathan Liebesman, director of this weekend's box office champ “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (which did so well at the box-office a sequel is already on the way).
“Transformers: Age of Exctinction,” is the highest grossing film of 2014 worldwide and will likely remain so for the rest of the year. The movie is also the 9th highest grossing picture of all time worldwide. Domestically, it’s the third highest grossing film of the year and may very well make it to #1. Bay has conquered blockbuster filmmaking and thus has nowhere to go in the genre, so perhaps he has a sincere desire to test his mettle in other cinematic arenas.
End of an era? Do you care? Are you happy to see Bay take on more “Pain & Gain”-esque non-Transformers projects? Sound off below.
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HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have a feeling no matter who has it this movie franchise will not live up to expectations
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FINALLY...y'all ? who ? about Bay can now ? !!!!!
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Michael Bay: "hey markie! this is going to be like pain & gain only with giant robots!"
marky mark: *thinks to himself* " I can't believe i'm doing this ? !" -
the series is so infected with his influence i wouldn't believe it'll make too much of a difference as to who takes over it now.
they can't really abandon the structure that he's built. -
Thank ? for that. Maybe he'll even step away from film completely.
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so Michael Bay wrote the scripts now? the movies are directed well, the problems in these films can be chalked up to the writing.
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Now they can reboot this ? with a director that's actually seen the cartoon.
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I didn't have that many problems with the Bay-directed Transformers, not including ROTF's story...that said, if the new person's competent, good news
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Havent seen a transformers movie besides the first one.
Only michael Bay movies i enjoyed were Pain and Gain, and Bad Boys. That i can remember off the top of my head. -
So Quentin tarantino or spike lee? who you guys got? lol
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Watch him give it to some ? ? like M. Knight Shyamalan.
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Now give it to john singleton
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Now give it to john singleton
So Jody and Yvette can fight Decepticons in the middle of South Central while Optimus gets gunned down for wearing red and blue? -
Wish my man Gareth Evans could get that...
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The bay hate disgusts me lol...No one has a reason. ? will ? hop anything on the internet
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James Cameron should have had it to begin with.
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INB4 Yvette son's tells Megatron "I hate you!" and Megatron gets up and kicks over the lil ? 's couch fort. -
Recaptimus_Prime360 wrote: »FINALLY...y'all ? who ? about Bay can now ? !!!!!
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I ? with Bay tho.
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evoljeanyes wrote: »The bay hate disgusts me lol...No one has a reason. ? will ? hop anything on the internet
The reason is that he doesn't make good movies, why would it disgust/upset you that I dislike a director/producer who makes average-below average movies on a regular basis. I did like his first three films (Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon) but after that just straight garbage. -
evoljeanyes wrote: »The bay hate disgusts me lol...No one has a reason.
I got a few. Paper thin plots, ? dialogue, horrible pacing. This on top of the fact that he nearly always sticks to his formula of, " Let's just blow tons of ? up. They'll never notice how much everything else sucks!".
Granted, Michael Bay isn't Uwe Boll, who should be brought up on charges for even going near a movie set, but it's not for nothing that so many people think he's a ? director.