Since we first heard there was going to be a fourth installment in Michael Bay's Transformers franchise, we've wanted to know what was going on. First it was said it would be a remake, then it was said it was going to be reboot, but now the man himself is saying those are both wrong and that the next film will chronologically follow the previous films, but use different characters.
Here's what he said directly in his talk with LA Times.
It’s not a reboot, that’s maybe the wrong word. I don’t want to say reboot because then people will think we’re doing a Spider-Man and starting from the beginning. We’re not. We’re taking the story that you’ve seen — the story we’ve told in three movies already — and we’re taking it in a new direction. But we’re leaving those three as the history. It all still counts. I met with the writer before I went off to do ‘Pain and Gain’ and we talked about a bunch of ideas. We let that simmer for a bit. He’s been thinking about stuff and now we’re getting back together next week to see what we’ve got and to see if it gels.
Bay says this will be the last one in the series, but he also said the same thing last year when he was talking about Dark of the Moon. Bay has also said that while the next movie could happen in space, he doesn't "want to go too sci-fi." Meanwhile I was thinking this entire time that Transformers was sci-fi, guess I was wrong.
Production hasn't started yet, he's looking for a way to cut the budget by around $30 million meaning that it would only use a $160 million. Bay may take some time after recently wrapping Pain & Gain before he picks up this new project.
