Michael Bay States That ‘Transformers 4’ Will Be “Completely Redesigned”

While speaking with Forbes, director Michael Bay talked about the upcoming fourth chapter in the Transformers franchise. The film, which starts shooting in May, will be the start of a new trilogy and Bay has stated this while this is a direct sequel to the prior three films, it’s a completely new take on the series.

“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. Mark [Wahlberg] is really excited about it and it’s a great redesign. I said that 3 [which grossed $1.1 billion] 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.”

Bay also goes on to state that they are attempting to broaden the franchise and give it more places to go. Hopefully those plans to broaden it also include the Dinobots. We’re just saying.

Transformers 4 is set to hit theaters June 27th, 2014.

Source: Forbes