GREAT News, There Could Be FOURTEEN More Transformers Movies
Imagine how many slanty shots that will mean.
It's 2330 and nuclear war has long-since ended the human race's control of the planet. Robots - evolved from disgruntled toasters - now rule and a hardy group of human survivors, allied with an unholy ensemble of apes, mutants and iPods still loyal to man roam the Earth looking for a break from the scorched sky.
It's hell on Earth, and still Michael Bay is making Transformers movies. Probably.
That might sound slightly far-fetched, but for the time being at least, there absolutely won't be a year when there's not at least a couple of Transformers movies in production. That's what giving them all of the box office money does, you see. It makes them invincible against critical destruction and inspires the kind of confidence to make announcements like Michael Bay just has.
The super-producer, director and fancier of slow-motion explosions and slanted camera angles has come out with an absolute corker, confirming to MTV that the writers room established to kick-start the Transformers movie universe is already churning out material.
“There are 14 stories written and there’s good stuff."
Well, if you throw that much mud, some of it is bound to stick...
Seriously, though, the Transformers franchise is a money-making behemoth, and fans seem to get major kicks out of it. Perhaps now that Michael Bay has walked away from directing (at least temporarily), they'll get some great directors in and we won't all have to try and watch the film through all of the Bay trademarks he throws in.
I'd almost certainly watch a Justin Lin Transformers movie for instance.
Sadly, Bay does still seem to entertain a passion for returning to direct in the series: “I would like to do one of them”, he says, adding “a Transformers spin-off”. That's a marked change of direction on what he said not that long ago.
At least we have a Bumblebee spin-off directed by Travis Knight - who made the irresistible Kubo & The Two Strings - to look forward to after Transformers: The Last Knight.
And then it's just the fourteen more before another announcement reveals they've actually created a real life Transformer programmed to churn out 2 franchise movies a year without any human involvement at all. It can only be a matter of time.