Michael Bay and Transformers go together like ham and cheese. Like alcohol and loss of motor skills. Like Transformers and six-minute long explosions.
You get the idea.
But despite being attached at the hip to his megabudget and megaloud franchise, Michael Bay has kind of a love/hate thing going with Optimus Prime. Initially, Bay didn’t want to direct Transformers: Age of Extinction, but he ended up doing so anyway. The pull of dinosaur robots was just too strong.
Now, he’s saying the same thing about the all-but-guaranteed Transformers 5.
Buried at the bottom of an article in USA Today was an extremely important piece of Transformers news that you’d think would deserve its own independent piece.
“Bay, 49, believes he will pass the baton for future Transformer movies to a new director while he turns his focus elsewhere.
‘There’s kind of a new chapter, a new direction in movies I want to make,’ says Bay, who is eyeing a passion project, a documentary on elephant poaching. ‘I have a lot of stories to tell. And it’s about flexing new muscles.'”
Well, maybe two articles, really- one about Michael Bay doing a documentary on elephant poaching (would there still be massive, sweeping shots that follow the poachers as elephants stampede around them?), and one about Michael Bay deciding to quit Transformers a second time.
Now, Bay could always renege on his current promise and do seven more Transformers films after this one. But if he doesn’t, that’s an entirely different can of worms.
I’ll leave you with this question- would a new director assigned to Transformers 5, but still forced to follow Bay’s lead and sequelize Bay’s films, be better… or worse?
Take some time to think. I know i’ll be dwelling on it for a while.
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