Spielberg Heroically Told Michael Bay to Stop Making Transformers Movies

Michael Bay has regrets. During a press interview for his upcoming movie Ambulance, the director revealed that the considerably higher director Steven Spielberg as soon as suggested him to cease making Transformers movies, recommendation I desperately want Bay had taken. What’s stunning to me is that Spielberg solely instructed him this after making the third film within the franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and never, say, 5 minutes after the primary film got here out.

During an interview with Unilad UK, Bay mentioned, “I made too many of them. Steven Spielberg said, ‘Just stop at three’. And I said I’d stop. The studio begged me to do a fourth, and then that made a billion too. And then I said I’m gonna stop here. And they begged me again. I should have stopped. [But] they were fun to do.”

It is historic reality that Bay swore every of the previous few Transformers movies can be his final, solely to return again and make one other. I’d say these have been to diminished returns, besides the second movie within the franchise, Revenge of the Fallen, was by far the worst installment and the worst movie Bay has ever made, because of its robotic racist caricatures, incomprehensible plot and motion, and the scene the place the Autobot Bumblebee pisses on John Turturro’s head. Comparatively, Dark of the Moon was serviceable, however sadly, its sequel Age of Extinction included a protagonist who carried round a laminated copy of Texas’ statutory rape legal guidelines so he may show to folks he wasn’t illegally having intercourse with a 17-year-old.

It would have been good if Bay had listened to Spielberg’s recommendation and at the least spared us Extinction and the joyless, half-assed slog that was The Last Knight, nevertheless it’s price remembering that Bay supposedly did hear to 1 factor Spielberg instructed him: to fire Megan Fox after she went on a press tour for Jennifer’s Body and in contrast Bay to Hitler when he was directing on set, and endearingly “awkward” off it. Unsurprisingly, Spielberg has denied this, though it’s under no circumstances implausible that the director of Schindler’s List and founding father of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation may get upset to listen to somebody casually evaluate another person to Hitler. Whatever the reality, Fox was dropped from Dark of the Moon, the film that will have accomplished Bay’s trilogy had he stopped making them, and if the three movies had even an iota of an overarching story or continuity between them.

[Via IndieWire]

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