10 Directors Who Could Take Over Transformers From Michael Bay

F. Gary Gray has had an incredibly varied filmography including comedies, thrillers, biopics and straight-up action, and Transformers is a franchise that would allow him to combine a lot of that expertise whilst exploring a genre he has yet to explore: sci-fi.

Gray is especially good at balancing star-studded ensemble casts, which would be a godsend to this series. After five movies of human characters taking far too much precedence over the robots, Gray could bring some equity and allow the Transformers to be actual characters in their own movie.

On top of that, his experience dealing with car-related stunt sequences in The Italian Job and The Fate of the Furious additionally shows he should have no problem bringing the action.

But what Gray could uniquely bring to the series is a little social relevance. Both Friday and Straight Outta Compton touched on race issues, and even the maligned Law Abiding Citizen at least had some interesting ideas about the flaws of the legal system.

Bay's films have almost been the antithesis of this mindset, and Gray could bring balance to this outlook. He would certainly bring a stop to the series' more troublesome tendencies by making a Transformers film that doesn't rely entirely on explosions, jingoism, and defiant ignorance.