From Wahlberg's latest interview, Mark Wahlberg on his new film 'Broken City,' bodybuilding, and 'Transformers 4' (Examiner, 17/01/2013):
Will you have to put more weight on for “Transformers 4”?
Wahlberg: Well I took a month off – I just started working out, I’m in my 4th week now – hopefully we’ll do “Avon Man” before “Transformers,” which is this comedy we have at Fox that we’ve been developing; it’s kind of like my first romantic comedy.
Can you tell us anything about “Transformers 4” or “Ted 2”?
Wahlberg: I could tell you that we’re doing “Transformers” starting at the end of May, and then “Ted” in September. You know I can’t give you too many story points or Michael will not be happy. But I can tell you that I’m very excited, obviously I had a great working relationship with Michael on “Pain and Gain”.
And recently, Mark Wahlberg says COMPLETE REBOOT when he appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show (16 January 2013):
"We’re doing a complete reboot of the Transformers. I did a movie with Michael Bay called Pain and Gain, which comes out in April. And we had an amazing time together and really hit it off, and he said ‘Hey, you want to do this other little movie I’m doing?’ Because that was a little movie, and I said ‘Yeah, I like doing little movies.' And he said Transformers. Whoa! You know what, we had such a great experience, I’m in."
Unfortunately, the actual video link (from the NBC site) won't work for us here in Australia.
I don't think he actually meant it in the sense of a complete story reboot...
Well I only found out what everyone may have already known - that TF4 is going to be the start of a new trilogy, so we will apparently have TF 5 & 6 as well! Apparently Mark Whalberg says its a reboot, but rumor has it Michael Bay says it is a continuation of the last set of movies, and takes place 4 years after TF3 and will have a different feel than the last movies. As long as it has a different feel to TF2 I'm happy
Either way, my wife let out an exasperated sigh as it means she will keep getting dragged back to Melbourne to watch it in gold class and I will keep filling the house with movie toys![]()
Actors are the least reliable source of information, so he is either been told off-hand by his agent or Bay that the movie is all new (to encourage him to sign on), or he's misinterpreted someone who described something with the movie as being new and just assumed that it is a reboot.
It may well be a reboot too, but Bay is just denying it to prevent nerd-rage from fansites this early.
Looks like filming is from May (2013), and might be finished by September, again according to Wahlberg.
Wow, Mark is going to be a busy boy this year.
Does anyone know if Ehren Kruger will be returning to write the script for TF4? I am kind of/ really hoping they get a different script writer for the next few films.
Looks like Paramount have secured or at least approached ILM for the 4th movie. Though that's hardly surprising.
Michael Bay On Doritos, Super Bowl Ads And 'Transformers 4' (Forbes, 02/02/2013). Excerpt:
Director Michael Bay got his start directing commercials and now he’s going to give another aspiring commercial director his big break. Since 2007, Doritos has allowed amateur filmmakers to offer up homemade commercials with the favorite airing during the Super Bowl. This year, two ads will air, one selected by the Doritos team and one by an America votes contest that ran on Facebook. Whichever filmmaker has the highest-ranking commercial on the USA Today Ad Meter ranking will get a job working with Bay on Transformers 4.
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Will that change the way you do anything on Transformers 4?
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 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.
So is 4 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.
Redesigned into Pretenders and Action Masters! Oh I can see the hate now![]()
Translation:There’s a reason the Transformers are redesigned. We’re trying to broaden the franchise and give it more places to go.
"Hasbro have come to the realization that they just can't push anymore Primes and Bumblebees onto kids in their present forms. So they instructed me to come up with a whole new look so that Hasbro can start a whole new era of Prime and Bumblebee marketing"
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