Last week we brought you a first look at Optimus Prime’s new design plus eight additional images from the upcoming fourth installment in the TRANSFORMERS franchise TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION from Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON).
We don’t know an awful lot about the upcoming sequel from Bay and Paramount but we do know that it will act as a semi-reboot of the franchise and replace the entirety of the previous cast members including Shia Labeouf and Josh Duhamel, in order to pave the way for a brand new trilogy. It will also please critics of the films to know that Bay has promised there will definitely be no goofiness in the fourth film which means no penis jokes and dogs humping eachother thank god. Although the film will have a new cast it will still take place in the same universe as the original trilogy and follow the events of the first three films, new comers to the robot filled franchise include Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor. Here is what Michael Bay had to say in a brand new interview about the highly anticipated film:
‘I wanted the first Transformers to be very suburban and less cool. This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won’t be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one]’.
‘It feels like a new chapter, this movie. But it’s not a reboot. This movie lives in the history of the ‘Transformers’ movies, and this one starts three years after the last. It feels fresh’.
Bay has also talked about the large scale action sequences of the film.
‘I do big setups. I like to do ‘runners’, where [the cameras are] with the characters in the war. We’re in the thick of it with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci, and we’ve got all these things going off’.
‘We started on this movie in August [2012], and while in the writing process I’m conceiving the action. We come up with shots like this and start figuring out the rigs to make it happen. It’s a lot of fun’.
And finally why he decided to return to direct the fourth installment.
‘It was the Transformers ride,’ at Universal Studios, he says. ‘It was seeing this two-and-a-half hour line, with all these kids lined up’.
Mark Wahlberg was also asked about why he chose to be part of the film.
‘The human element really attracted me,’ Wahlberg tells us. He signed on without reading the script, off the back of his conversations with Bay.
‘I had a great time working with him on ‘Pain & Gain’, and he asked me to come back, so I said, ‘Absolutely.’ The idea of playing a dad to a teenage girl – those are issues I’ll be having to deal with sooner rather than later, whether I like it or not’.
I look forward to seeing what Bayhem will ensue in TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION on 10th July 2014.
Source: Yahoo
