10 Directors Who Could Take Over Transformers From Michael Bay

Tim Miller may be known to most as the guy who directed Deadpool, but his breadth of work spreads far beyond that. His visual effects and animation company Blur Studios has an impressive catalog of work under its belt, and Miller himself was a key part of many of them.

He directed some of the best cinematic trailers for video games out there, like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 2, as well as the opening sequence for Thor: The Dark World and the credits for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

He even got an Oscar nomination for co-directing the short film Gopher Broke. And then he got to make Deadpool, which proved he is just as capable a visual artist in live action as he is in animation. With such a great handle on both mediums, this makes him an ideal candidate for a franchise that incorporates both like Transformers.

Miller does share a lot of Michael Bay's flair for indulging in the over-the-top, but Miller doesn't let it get the better of him. Additionally, he has a much better approach to sophmoric humour; whereas Bay's attempts usually attracted groans, Miller showed in Deadpool that even the grossest of humour can get a laugh when played right.

If Paramount would rather keep the tone of Transformers close to Bay rather than go for something radically different, Tim Miller is definitely a director who could thrive in that playbox but still tinker with its quirks from within.