Transformers 4 Director Bay Denies Reboot, Confirms Overhaul

No, not that kind of Overhaul.Michael Bay, the Transformers director and producer who will get behind the camera one last time for the franchise with the upcoming Transformers 4, told Forbes in an interview that rumors the film would be a reboot of the successful series were exaggerated.”We keep the Transformers the way they were, it’s just four years later,” Bay said. “There’s a reason the Transformers are redesigned. We’re trying to broaden the franchise and give it more places to go.”That’s part of Bay’s stated strategy of leaving the franchise in the best possible place for the next director to pick up from–that, and a new cast, led by Mark Wahlberg rather than Shia LaBoeuf and Megan Fox.”We’re going to start off smaller. There’s a brand new cast. To freshen the franchise, we’ve redesigned everything from top to bottom. The history of the first three movies is still there, we start four years later and there’s a reason why we’re meeting a new cast,” Bay said.He continued, “Mark [Wahlberg] is really excited about it and it’s a great redesign. I said that 3 [which grossed $1.1 billion] was going to be my last one. Paramount was letting me do Pain & Gain and the Transformers ride was opening at Universal and it was bittersweet to think of passing it off. I wanted to set it up on a really sure footing and to bring someone else in on that, it would have been overwhelming.”Transformers 4 is due for release on June 27th, 2014.