Transformers 4 Will Happen with or Without Michael Bay

[gdmetro]

Good news.

Hasbro gets more profit from the kiddies = more bones to collectors.

Hopefully the movies will be "without" MB.

[Paulbot]

But once they're just these robots without any real meaning of why they're there, it just became robot melee, and that's not as enjoyable as knowing something about each robot and their personality so that when they do fight, there are stakes to it. That's really what was missing. It wasn't that there were so many robots; there were so many robots that you didn't know."

This makes my day. I'm so glad to read Hasbro CEO acknowledge that a huge part of the success, and why we care about the Transformers from 25 years ago, is because of the "personality" that was given to every toy, not just because of "robot melee". if this is something that has been rectified in DOTM then I have slightly higher hopes for that film.

[i_amtrunks]

This makes my day. I'm so glad to read Hasbro CEO acknowledge that a huge part of the success, and why we care about the Transformers from 25 years ago, is because of the "personality" that was given to every toy, not just because of "robot melee". if this is something that has been rectified in DOTM then I have slightly higher hopes for that film.

I'll believe it when I see it...

Well it cannot be worst than Revenge, it was a piece of poop, so DOTM has that going for it at least, plus it looks like it'll be very pretty.

[LordCyrusOmega]

Michael Bay said that he wasn't going to do a third movie after ROTF was released and we have DOTM being released in a few months. I think we've heard this before though he may actually mean it this time. A change of director would be nice though i'm going to withhold judgement until i've seen DOTM.

[5FDP]

Of course they will make more movies Money talks and DOTM will rake it in.

Quentin Tarantino for TF4

[jaydisc]

Reboot without Bay

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm in favour of losing Bay... though they should try to replace him with someone better. I mean, I was also in favour of ditching Megan Fox, but I don't know if they've replaced her with someone better. (-_-) But nothing ventured nothing gained... give someone else a go.

Not a fan of reboots. It feels like the easy way out for me. I'd like to see a better director just pick the ball up and run with it. I know reboots can be quite good (e.g. The Incredible Hulk), but I'm just kinda sick and tired of sitting through a decade of reboots in Transformers (*cough*post.Beast.Machines*cough*)

Still... a good reboot would be better than a crappy sequel. I dunno, depends on how DOTM ends off.

[SkyWarp91]

I think it's a good move.

The movies are all box-office successes and they have endless possibilities for future plots/settings.

Only thing Hasbro has to watch out for is when the movie series becomes boring, then they have to either find a new way to inject more interest into it. Let's just hope they don't resort to rebooting.

[griffin]

Apparently Bay has just signed up to a movie project called 'Robots Vs Zombies', based on a comic series, written by Chris Ryall (the IDW editor?). That should keep Bay busy for a year or two, so won't have time for TF4 if Hasbro wants to keep spitting them out every 2 years.

[GoktimusPrime]

so won't have time for TF4 if Hasbro wants to keep spitting them out every 2 years.

Gee, what a shame.