10 Movie & TV Spoilers You Didn't Know Yesterday (Sept 26)
7. Peter Cullen Wants Michael Bay To Direct The Next Transformers Film
Yes, that's right, Peter Cullen - the voice of Optimus Prime - want's nothing more than Michael Bay to return for the filming of Transformers 5. While speaking to Cinema Blend, Cullen had this to say:
I have a great deal of respect for him. He generates a great deal of excitement and energy. He's really a hands-on director. My son is a stunt man and worked in Chicago doing a lot of the driving sequences... he said he's a very, very diligent, hands-on guy. He creates a great deal of energy and puts everybody on their toes. I would certainly miss him. I think he's brilliant, his mind is unbelievable.
It's surprising to see not everyone hates Michael Bay's directorial methods, and while Cullen wasn't likely to come out and say that he hated Bay's vision of his beloved character and franchise, Cullen's comments seem utterly genuine. Cullen is well-known to be extremely protective of Optimus' character, which is all the more dumbfounding considering the ending of Age Of Extinction where the character broke his number one rule of never hurting a human being. The interviewer proceeded to ask Cullen if he had any knowledge on what the upcoming Transformers 5 would be about, but was either deliberately coy about it, or genuinely didn't know.
It would be very difficult me to express any of the future on Transformers, but certainly the excitement that it's generated of where it could possibly go is up to anybody to figure out. I don't have access to any of that information.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
