Mikey Bay is going to be talking up Transformers 4 more and more as we approach the release of the (much more interesting) Pain & Gain, and speaking with Forbes he’s let out the latest bit of info.
Basically it’s this: TF4 isn’t a reboot, but you can expect a total redesign to go with the cast- just one that will be story-motivated. The scale will also be shrinking back down, at least on some level or another. Rumors that Unicron will be involved probably shouldn’t be ignored…
In any, event here are Bay’s actual words:
“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… 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.”
I do wonder exactly what Bay thinks “broaden the franchise” means. Shit was pretty broad in the first place, though if he’s suggesting the film won’t be so deeply rooted in a convoluted mythos and tied up to one character, I am all for that. Mark Wahlberg certainly brings some kind of “broad” to the film, I’ll give him that.
I’m curious Chewers: what could Bay do with this franchise at this point that would make you the most interested?
Other than “kill it with fire” of course.
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He could kill it with f-
Oh. Um. Dunno.
“what could Bay do with this franchise at this point that would make you the most interested?”
Let someone interesting direct it? I’ve only seen the first one, which I liked at the time, but it was more as “okay, this proves it’s possible to make a decent transformers movie, now cut all the extraneous crap and make it,” than actually enjoying the film. Since, by most accounts, the other two films wallowed in the extraneous crap, I never got around to seeing them.
Given really good reviews I could see maybe seeing this in theaters, but there’s no chance of me being there opening weekend.
Broadening it could involve bringing in non-Transformers villains. Any other alien threat will do.
Anything that allows the individual Transformers to be decipherable characters would be good.
Cutting all the bad humor and replacing it with humor that works and doesn’t feel insulting to the material and the audience would help.
Musical numbers. Giant transforming robot musical numbers.
Of all the projects that Ridley Scott or Guilermo Del Toro have, why isn’t Transformers one of them? Screw Pacific Rim…I want a Del Toro Transformers.
Let Mamoru Oshii write and direct it with zero studio interference, it would be a masterpiece and greatest sci-fi film of the decade.
Dude, get a grip. It’s a property about giant shapeshifting alien robots. You could resurrect Stanley Kubrick and it would still be a million light years from being a “masterpiece” or “greatest sci-fi”.
“The scale will also be shrinking back down, at least on some level or another. Rumors that Unicron will be involved probably shouldn’t be ignored…”
It would take a special mind like Bay’s to think that scaling something down meant adding a literally moon-size robot.
Shit I doubt it, but I’ve never seen a Transformers movie before so I don’t really care, that’s just the only way I’d give a shit about seeing a Transformers movie.
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