Michael Bay has been discussing the future of the Transformers franchise, talking about both broadening and redesigning the series.
Speaking to Forbes, Bay said, “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’s next film is Pain & Gain, which stars Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, with the latter also appearing in Transformers 4.
“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.”
But according to Bay, the film is definitely not a reboot. “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.”
Pain & Gain hits this April, while Transformers 4 is released summer 2014.
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