Transformers 4 - ongoing news thread

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Just another Wahlberg interview. Mark Wahlberg on screen violence, Seth MacFarlane and the next Transformers (British GQ, 26/02/2013):

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You've signed up to star in Michael Bay's fourth Transformers film. What do you think is the secret to a good sequel?
To make it better than the last one! My experience with Michael is fantastic - on Pain & Gain we had a blast and worked really well together. So when he asked me to come onto Transformers, once he told me the idea, I said, "Absolutely." It' s a completely different take on it, so I'm thrilled. We've just got to bring our A-game. There's no phoning it in when it comes to me or what Michael wants to do. And Ted 2 is in the pipeline too - they're writing it now, they've already done the deal and I'm excited about it. Seth [MacFarlane]'s idea is fantastic - and he comes from television, so he continued to write and take these characters further. People who make movies, if the movie is a hit they want to make another one and it's a scramble. But with Seth's background, he could do 50 of them and they would all be great.

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Mark Wahlberg On Ted 2 & Transformers 4 (Empire, 01/03/2013), (link includes a podcast of this interview):

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On the Transformers 4 front, Wahlberg also explained how that gig came about.

"Michael [Bay] and I had an amazing experience working together on Pain & Gain. That movie is insane. It’s like Boogie Nights meets Pulp Fiction meets Fargo. Michael made that movie for $25m and then he asked me if I wanted to work with him again, told me his idea and I said, ‘I’m in’. It’s very different from the other three."

But who is his character in Transformers 4? "I play a man," comes Wahlberg's response. "Who has a child." And what about the stories of Michael Bay saying the film is going to be smaller than the other three? "It will [be smaller]," he explains. "It will just be a couple of people in a room talking."


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