Though director Michael Bay seemed adamant that the third Transformers film,
released just last summer to lukewarm reviews, would be his last, the
'splosion-loving director has signed up to helm the fourth film in the
franchise.
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirmed Bay’s involvement to MTV, and announced a release date of summer 2014.
“Yeah
Michael’s gonna direct and it’ll be releasing in the summer of 2014,”
said Bonaventura. “We’re excited and I think the challenge there is we
really are gonna do a reboot, and what that’s gonna be we don’t even
know yet.”
Seeing as the Transformers franchise has always been a massive money-spinner for Bay (Dark Of The Moon
made $1bn worldwide), it’s not difficult to see why he’d be tempted to
return for a fourth round of robots beating the crap out of each other.
That said, both 2009’s Revenge Of The Fallen and last year’s Dark Of The Moon received a critical drubbing, which is perhaps why the mega-director has decided to give the franchise a refresh.
We
can probably count series regular Shia Labeouf out, then, so expect a
new lead and a shiny new set of Autobots for the franchise that refuses
to die with any dignity.
Transformers 4 will open in the USA on 29 June 2014. A UK release date has yet to be confirmed.
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