Michael Bay Talks Transformers 3, 4 and 5?

Mr. Bay sure does have a lot of faith in the first one to be thinking of making another 4 transformers movies.

....Only time can tell, but I think it can make it their.

Hmmm, I think all 3 movies will be a huge succes. (probably the 3rd movie will be the best at the box office) But I'm not sure what to think about even more movies. Just like Spiderman and Shrek ....

Everyone these days is sequel happy. Didn't we all learn a lesson from the original Batman movies? Keep it simple Michael. Let's not introduce 17 new Decepticons and Autobots in one movie and forget about plot and story....please.

I would expect this comment. They want this to be a runaway franchise just like Sony and Marvel want Spiderman to be a runaway franchise. Think about how much work has gone into setting up the movie as it is. We've been following the movie's development since 2003 ... just imagine someone like Tom DeSanto who has been working on the Transformers movie concept for 5, 6 or maybe even 7 years already. There's a lot of time and money that has gone into just the first movie, so I'm not surprised at all to see them want to make a multi-movie franchise out of Transformers. Good luck to them!

In the words of Tyrese "Bring It"

Trilogies aren't all that bad. I approve of the original Alien one, Spider-Man and Star Wars. But I can see this will share the same fate of any sequel franchise, the director will get changed and fuck up the film (so says the audience) don't believe me? Ask the ones who hated Return of the The Jedi and X3.

well, i'm not objected to the idea, but it is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too early in the game to make desicions like that.

I'd dont think that there should be 5. Keep it at 3 or 4 than make a TV show. Otherwise its going to be the next Star Wars or Aliens. The first 3 were great but the ones after were just OK. Hell for all we know there might not even be a third movie. And what if Bay gets kicked and a new director is used? Its never a good idea to look that far ahead without know what the begining holds instore.

Well I think Bay has always had the intention to not be selling toys. So he won't add characters if he doesn't need them... but money talks

it will make it there because of the fans. if we enjoy the movie and they do good at the box office and all that stuff, then we will definitely see atleast 5..hopefully. i wont see much use of the humans after a couple movies, so it better all be more robot ass whooping.

I like the #3. Keep it a trilogy. After that it just seems like it's only about the money. I hate 4th's and 5th's.

Great googa-booga, five movies?! Man, that would kick ass! !

ye, i would agree with 3, but ill miss it too much after the 3, cuz i know ill love them soo i would want them to make more..even though they wont be as good.

can we please just have 3 movies of TF! I dont want this to end up like Star wars or Rocky. because I only perfer trilogies in movies.

Wow, it doesn't take much to constitute "news" lately, does it?

While a trilogy would be best, 4 and 5 are possible if the sequels (should they arise) do well enough. Just as long as they do them right and they are enjoyable.

Also I have to agree with a previous comment on the characters. Adding only a few characters at a time would be best to avoid the character development problems G1 had.

Megatron_Wolf wrote:I'd dont think that there should be 5. Keep it at 3 or 4 than make a TV show. Otherwise its going to be the next Star Wars or Aliens. The first 3 were great but the ones after were just OK. Hell for all we know there might not even be a third movie. And what if Bay gets kicked and a new director is used? Its never a good idea to look that far ahead without know what the begining holds instore.

No, no, no hell no. No TV show. Sci-fi TV shows are where decent (or mediocre) Sci-fi movie franchises go to get drunk & strongly remind everybody within shouting distance of how they used to be a contender. I say make their movies & then have the movie franchise go the way of Elvis or Kobain & END IT.

I just think it's sad/funny how a one-liner off the cuff comment can be taken so ridiculously out of context. Bay saying that if 2 & 3 do well - which aren't even confirmed at this point - that he'd probably want to do 4 & 5 as well is NOT him "talking" about anything. He's stating the obvious. Every studio/director/writer/etc. hopes that they can turn their work into a career spanning franchise - it doesn't mean it will happen or that there are even concrete plans to do so. And as we know, most franchises never pass 3 movies, and when they do, they usually just keep going downhill anyway.

As long as the money keeps rolling in and the decent, exciting storylines keep rolling out (so to speak) they can make it a dodecilogy for all I care. I'm just happy to see so many folk at work with TF stuff in their trolleys and baskets- long may it continue!

-Nick

Guys, James Bond is on part 23 or 24, suffered numerous cast and crew changes over the years and still 75% of them are great.

(Goldeneye being the last good bond film, I haven't seen Casino Royale yet)

And when does the first one come out again?????lol.

im pretty sure tf wont get that far in sequels.

HELL YEAH!

Is this Transformer or Starwars? XD!!!

3's a nice number. We don't need another Star Wars/Star Trek saga.

No thanks.

Handbanana wrote:Guys, James Bond is on part 23 or 24, suffered numerous cast and crew changes over the years and still 75% of them are great.

(Goldeneye being the last good bond film, I haven't seen Casino Royale yet)

And Bond just came out of nowhere. You'd only have known about James before the movies had you read the books.

Transformers has just slightly less name recognition, from the past 23 years.

im ok with as long as they dont kill prime

Grain of salt.

I doubt more than 3 will be made without a "reboot" of some kind, Spidey 3 and PotC3 were both very weak, and even Shrek 3 was not as good as its predecessors (but still pretty damn good). It seems the third movie is the one where storylines falter, and plotholes as big as the Pacific ocean appear

Nemesis_Apoc wrote:well, i'm not objected to the idea, but it is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too early in the game to make desicions like that.

Agreed - I think they're jumping the gun just a bit...

Handbanana wrote:Guys, James Bond is on part 23 or 24, suffered numerous cast and crew changes over the years and still 75% of them are great.

(Goldeneye being the last good bond film, I haven't seen Casino Royale yet)

I'm not really a Bond fan(besides the videogames), but i totally see what you mean. We should all remember Godzilla as well, there are quite a few of those films as well, and they are all good, in one capacity or another(besides the U.S. made one, but i'd imagine that could go without saying). But maybe this could be Hollywoods "Godzilla series". There was enough interest to make hundreds of tv epidodes so far, a few movies, and things like that. With technology getting better all the time, i would think in a few years time, the effects wouldn't be so costly, and with good writing, they could continue for decades. If the designs rock it could get better all the time, and to have somthing like that with us most of the time, life would really kick even more ass!!!

i say if we (the fans) do not approve of Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers we petetion dreamworks to hire a new director for any future films.

this cracks me up....yall really think this movie is going to do big numbers at the box office. doesnt it have to pull in like 200 mill domestic just to break even. dont get me wrong im going to see it and have it the first week it comes out.

but if you all think this will be some kind of movie cash juggernaut....im sad to say you will all be hit with a sharp reality check when the second week numbers come out.

lockepsb wrote:i say if we (the fans) do not approve of Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers we petetion dreamworks to hire a new director for any future films.

it wouldnt be the same though without him..cuz these movies will kick ass with him directing!

lilcarus wrote:this cracks me up....yall really think this movie is going to do big numbers at the box office. doesnt it have to pull in like 200 mill domestic just to break even. dont get me wrong im going to see it and have it the first week it comes out.

but if you all think this will be some kind of movie cash juggernaut....im sad to say you will all be hit with a sharp reality check when the second week numbers come out.

this movie will break box office records, thx

trilogy eh? just like ROCKY.

lilcarus wrote:this cracks me up....yall really think this movie is going to do big numbers at the box office. doesnt it have to pull in like 200 mill domestic just to break even. dont get me wrong im going to see it and have it the first week it comes out.

but if you all think this will be some kind of movie cash juggernaut....im sad to say you will all be hit with a sharp reality check when the second week numbers come out.

Lets see 200 million domestic isnt really that hard to do. 150 million at minimum in theaters is easy given the attention this is getting. And that is 150 mil. over the entire theater run, I think it will do more. And then 50 mil. in DVD sales which is very easy once again given the fan base. Superman Returns wasnt the hit that the WB thought it would be but it still broke 300 mil in theaters before hitting DVD. It will make money, maybe not spidey or pirates money but it will make money.

Oh yeah don't forget Hasbro is splitting profits on movie toys with the studio as well so 100 mil in toys sales worldwide = 50 mil to dreamworks.

EXODUS PRIME wrote:im ok with as long as they dont kill prime

That wouldn't necessarily be bad. Hell, the way they make movies, they could kill him off in one & bring him back in the next without missing a beat & still make it a worthwhile story point.


*spoiler warning*

Hell, they plan to kill Megatron at the end of this one....which he would obviously have to be brought back in the next.....so why not Prime, too?

Hasent this TF movie been like one of (if not the most) expensive movie to EVER be produced?!? With move US military support than any other movie (like ID4 was susposte to be, but they didnt want to get rid of Area 51, so no military support)....

The powers that be (Dreamworks/Paramount/Hasbro/Anyone else attached to the movie) will keep on cranking out TF movies until the franchise is no longer profitable.. Besides, modern movies make more money off merchendise (as made obvious with Spiderman 3, which made more money in merch than both 1&2 combined in the box office before #3 even opened! Which makes that movie a success money wise)... This TF movie will be no different..

Its still just a long commercial for the toys (and all the other crap with a TF logo on it), only diff now is its a 2+hr commercial that has a real thought out plot that should be intertaining in itself....

Most modern bussiness run sales models like this now.. Do you think its an accident that most of the vehicles in the movie will be GM (just like bad boys 2)?? or on the old tv show roseanne, the beer bottles were budweiser, but said "BEER" instead of "BUDWEISER".. TV shows and movies are more like commercials with product placement and the like than commercials are anymore!!

sorry for the long rant... but I do kinda hope that it is a long francise, as I mostly perfer the westren storylines over the eastren ones and hopefully with a movie franchise, the cartoon will keep being produced over here..

Killing off Megatron would allow them to bring Galavatron in the next one.. That should be obvious, isnt it?!?

Wow i hope this happens! There are soo many stories and characters that would translate into so many kickass live action movies. He must be really proud of his movie to be saying stuff like that so we are definateley in for a treat!

lockepsb wrote:i say if we (the fans) do not approve of Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers we petetion dreamworks to hire a new director for any future films.

...I like Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers...

Um, why are some people arguing against having more than 3 movies. Ok given, if they suck, that's not so good, but even if they are half decent and introduce new characters with the action that we've seen in the trailer and the possibility of seeing Cybertron and some other cool shit, why would Transformer fans ask that there "not" be sequels and accuse people of being sequel happy. I personally want 10 if possible!

*snort*

The FIRST movie isn't out yet...and BTW, Transformers don't really belong to Bay anyway.

This movie only had like a 180 million dollar budget or something so it wasnt that expensive to make.

Shadowman wrote:

lockepsb wrote:i say if we (the fans) do not approve of Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers we petetion dreamworks to hire a new director for any future films.

...I like Mr. Bay's attempt at Transformers...

Me too...we must be cautios other uwe boll might turn up. that man must stayb away!

Bay if perfect for the job. If you can name a list of directors who could shoot a film with 12 set piece mega action sequences with photo realistic giant effing robots transforming at 80 mph in mid air ending in one kick ass adrenaline fulled summer block buster movie then let me know ok?

Some of us are looking for a little more substance than a mindless action flick with subtle pro-American overtones and 'giant effing robots,' Sonny.

1337W422102 wrote:Some of us are looking for a little more substance than a mindless action flick with subtle pro-American overtones and 'giant effing robots,' Sonny.

Other's wouldn't want it any other way.

You mean we get to sit through more complaining about character designs, actors, and plots four more times... They should just make a nice trilogy and milk boxsets and special edition DVD's. Because anything more and the general public will get bored unless Bay and friends think they can pull a Harry Potter(which will have SEVEN movies when all said and done.). And if TF movies 3,4, and 5 end up smash hits, then we know that Mr. Bay works for Satan.(maybe)

loomdog32 wrote:
Killing off Megatron would allow them to bring Galavatron in the next one.. That should be obvious, isnt it?!?

They haven't even had Megs in an Earth-based alt mode...he's basically supposed to wake up, blow sh*t up, & then die....I'd say let him be Megs a bit longer before they make him Galvy.....possibly keep Galvy tied in with Unicron...

Well, I wouldn't mind depending on how well they can do plots for this movie. However, I really would like to see three. If Micheal Bay does Unicron and says he has to have actual terrain and ocean on him, then I give up.

I agree with 1337W422102 in that I'd like more substance, less 'splosions (or an equal amount.)

I'm waiting to see the film to make a final call, but as of right now I'd prefer this to be the only one made by this team. I'd rather not see my namesake, or Grimlock, or Arcee (see movie version for the ugliest Transformer ever made) get the Bay-former treatment.