UPDATED: Michael Bay needs time off (it’s my opinion that Paramount have announced a possible big movie that they MIGHT be releasing in 2011 just to stop other studios taking that date. If it’s not going be TRANSFORMERS 3, it will be something else… and I can’t imagine they would drop Bay to rush a third movie out by another director).
I said I was taking off a year from Transformers. Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformers 3 – they asked me on the phone – I said yes to July 4 – but for 2012 – whoops! Not 2011!!! That would mean I would have to start prep in September. No way. My brain needs a break from fighting robots. — Michael
Dreamworks and Paramount have almost found their own version of the SPIDER-MAN and James Bond franchises, more specifically the latter as they are forging ahead with a movie every two years at this rate.
Before even the release of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN and well before anyone had even thought about a third movie, the studio’s have gone ahead and staked July 1st. 2011 as their release date for TRANSFORMERS 3.
Variety say it’s a case of securing a lucrative release window before another studio could grab their hands on it, considering Marvel have a few movies coming out that year and are looking to dominate the market.
Michael Bay is expected to return in the director’s chair with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox expected to star. No writers are attached just yet.
TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN opens June 24th.
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Batman 3 vs. Transformers 3?
“Paramount’s version of James Bond and Spider-Man?”
DAMN Matt. What an INSULT to Bond and Spider-Man. Maybe Bayformers would be like Bond and Spider-Man…if Bond and Spidey were utter shit!
For example, if Spider-Man’s movies were ONLY about Peter and MJ hooking up, Uncle Ben was a deranged 70’s rock star and Aunt May gave the middle finger every five seconds while saying stupid one-liners. Oh, and you would NEED the “military porn” with huge combat machines flying and guys with guns trying to look tough. Naturally the soldiers would get FAR more screen time that Spider-Man, not because of the script but because the effeminate director wants to suck up to these macho-type dudes. And Dr Octopus would say his name like a retard just before escaping from the government facility where he is imprisoned. Meanwhile Pete only suits up as Spidey at he end of the flick and the big fight takes place mostly off-screen.
And when asked how he can possibly defend this turdpile wouldn’t it be cute if Sam Raimi said something retarded like, “Well, we really wanted to play up the character aspects. We didn’t want it to be all about SFX and camera moves.”
And I won’t even comment on the comparison to Bond. I mean, Jack Ryan was supposed to be Paramount’s “espionage” franchise, right?
Wonder when someone will compare the new Star Trek to being Paramount’s own “Battlestar Galactica?”
No surprise Bay is doing all the things that he bitched and whined “wouldn’t work” in the first movie. He’s putting the emphasis on the robots (imagine that in a movie called TRANSFORMERS!) he’s putting in Soundwave, and bringing in even Frank Welker. Now any other director would have gotten those things right the first time –a no-brainer. Not Bay. He needs a couple of tries before he gets it right.
The best thing Bay can do for movies is quit. And Paramount needs to stop raping the 80’s for a quick buck.