If there's any proof needed that Hollywood loves gutter-level, effects-heavy blockbusters that sound like idiot fodder, it comes in the shape of Michael Bay's ugly Transformers franchise. While it could have been something spectacular, Bay's agenda has always felt closer to ruining everyone's childhoods and pulling in the popcorn bucks rather than trying to capture the spirit of the source. After all, nostalgia doesn't always turn box office millions into billions, and you can't always count on the Jurassic World effect. So, say what you want about the franchise, but it's a nice little earner for Bay and Hasbro, and it does have the pulling power to bring in the likes of Malkovich, Tucci, Grammer and Dempsey. (Possibly because it pays so well.) And now, there could be more big name actors to slum it with racist robots, because Hasbro have just confirmed that 4 more sequels are coming. At the 13.30 mark, Davis drops the bombshell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_P2fw_DlS4 "Transformers 5 is on it's way. And 6 and 7 and 8." Well, sh*t. The Hollywood dollar speaks loudest again. Despite an embarrassing 18% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, Age Of Extinction pulled in $1,1bn at the box office with a healthy $800m profit, and that was more than enough for Hasbro to map out the next ten years of the franchise. That apparently started with getting a group of writers - including Batman And Robin's Akiva Goldsmith and (weirdly) Robert Kirkman - together to rub their brains together. If the result is superhero zombie robot aliens, I will fully retract every bad word I've ever written about Transformers movies. Are you excited to see more Transformers on the big screen? If so, how do you sleep at night? Sound off in the comments thread below.
