Earlier this week we were treated with a teaser poster for Transformers 4 which is set to hit theaters Summer 2014, at that time I figured that would be the last we heard about the film for a while, however I was wrong. Today during the opening of Transformers: The Ride 3-D at Universal Studios, the L.A. Times was able to catch up with Michael Bay and get an inside scoop on what to expect from the film.
The main question people are wondering has to revolve around the cast, because last everyone heard, the original cast would not be coming back. Bay addressed this concern and leads us in his direction for the fourth and final film,
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… We’re moving on to something different.
Great news because personally I was a bit tired of the Sam Witwicky story line and Shia LaBeouf in general. He then proceeds to talk a bit about where the script, which is currently being written by Ehren Kruger, is heading and it involves a trip to space.
That feels like the way to go, doesn’t it? I want to go a little off [the planet] but I don’t want to go too sci-fi. I still want to keep it grounded.
Finally Bay stated that this film would have a smaller budget compared to the $200 million spent on Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Bay said he is looking around the $165 million mark for the fourth film.
With everything Bay said, it almost seems as if he is going to leave the franchise with an opening for someone else to come in and expand on the Transformers universe now that the backstories have been told. We will have to wait till 2014 to find that out.
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