Theatrical Transformers VR Experience Being Developed By Michael Bay

If you have ever wanted to experience the intense, action-packed world of Transformers for yourself, then you will soon get the chance. The franchise's fifth installment is set to hit theaters next year with Transformers: The Last Knight, and Michael Bay wants to celebrate the release in a big way. The director is teaming up with IMAX to create a theatrical VR experience of Transformers fans.

Recently, Collider had a chance to speak with the director during a set visit, and Bay dished a few details about the unprecedented VR gag. The director confirmed the Transformers VR experience would be done with IMAX and ILM. Fans of the Transformers franchise will be excited to hear that the video will contain an original story, and it will run about nine minutes or so.

When it comes to the original story aspect, Bay had a bit to say about the VR experience and its protagonist. "What's sort of fun about that is the size, you've got little ones and we got this great character called Cogman who's a psychopath," he said.

"He's a proper like butler, he's a headmaster, so it goes back to the comics. They kind ofrip off heads and they become that. So he's this proper, great looking sociopath, he's a psycho, but he's very polite. And he's like this big [uses his hands to show us the height], and it's cool just as a test. You see him riding in a car, and behind you, over here and you can just — it's so much fun."

So far, it looks like the VR experience will be rolled out in theaters before it gets a home release. To do this, IMAX has offered to build 30 VR bods for theaters around the world where audiences can experience the virtual ordeal.

According to Bay, the VR experience is expected to be done by May 2017. The video will be filmed with a special VR camera and feature higher-res images thanks to IMAX. Bay also teased that the VR footage will be "completely CG" so fans should expect to see plenty of Autobots coming at them.

Of course, this is not the first franchise to explore the power of VR tech. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story recently rolled out a VR set visit and Assassin's Creed will have a VR experience set up at select AMC Theaters when its film debuts. Suicide Squad also got into the field earlier this year when Warner Bros. debuted a behind-the-scenes VR video.

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The cast of Transformers: The Last Knight features Mark Wahlberg (Planet of the Apes) as Cade Yeager, Isabela Moner (100 Things To Do Before High School) as Izabella, Josh Duhamel (Life as We Know It) as Lieutenant Colonel William Lennox, John Turturro (The Big Lebowski) as Seymour Simmons, and Tyrese Gibson (Furious 7) as Robert Epps, as well as Jerrod Carmichael (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising), Anthony Hopkins (Thor: The Dark World). The voice cast includes Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime and John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane) as Hound.

Transformers: The Last Knight is set for release June 23, 2017.