movie Transformers 4 Director & Date Set

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura was at Toy Fair 2012 today where he confirmed that Transformers 4 is moving ahead with Michael Bay back in the director's chair and a 2014 release date.

Deadline says that Bay and Co. will only shoot Transformers 4 next and not the fourth and fifth installments back-to-back as had been rumored last year. The site adds that the Paramount brass and Bay are all plenty peeved at Di Bonaventura for letting the proverbial cat of the bag before they could officially announce the news. Bay will first shoot Pain and Gain with Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg.

How do you feel about another Bay-directed Transformers film? Sound off in the Comments below!

UPDATED: Paramount Pictures has now issued a press release officially announcing Michael Bay's involvement:

Paramount Pictures announced today that director Michael Bay has signed a two-picture deal with the studio, which will commence this spring with the filming of Pain and Gain, and will be followed by the next installment in the hit Transformers franchise.

Based on a true story, Pain and Gain follows a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. First told in an article from the Miami New Times, Pain and Gain, will be directed by Bay and will star Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Expected to begin production in early spring, the movie's producers include Bay, Donald De Line and Ian Bryce.

Following Pain and Gain, Bay will bring audiences a new take on the Transformers franchise as he begins production on the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. The third, and most recent installment of the franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Is the fourth highest global grossing film of all time with 1.124 billion dollars of worldwide box office success. Directed by Bay, the movie will re-unite the filmmaking team from the hit franchise, including producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Ian Bryce; and executive producers Steven Spielberg, Bay, Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 29th, 2014.

"Michael has been working on PAIN AND GAIN for a number of years but has patiently waited for the perfect casting to trigger a start," said Adam Goodman, President of Paramount's Film Group. "Clearly his patience has paid off as we couldn't be more excited about this combo. His passion for this project is just awesome."

IGN

[Raa]

That's milking the franchise a bit much isn't it?

[TheLegendOfMart]

As long as theres no shia la whatshisface ill watch it, cant stand the guy.

[Dan~]

[ToneKnee]

Megatron is dead.. So who will be the next villain?

[Guest]

bay is a duche bag

[johnnyq3]

Megatron is dead.. So who will be the next villain?

There is other villians like Unicron, and other villians that I can't remember the name of just because I'm not too much into the seires as a friend of mine.

[Art3x]

If they remove Sam Witwicky I will definitely watch it. He is such a terrible character/actor, they may get better now!

[oceanmotion]

Please retire Michael Bay or better yet, stop watching his god awful films. Each to their own :D

[Shaun N.]

Megatron is dead.. So who will be the next villain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oItKg8l7htE

[Mayhem]

haven't M. Bay said that Transformers 3 were its last one ? :s

oh well, money talks

[Dot Matrix]

Guys, I got a sneak peak at the script! Everything explodes and Optimus dies. Twice.

[sc302 Veteran]

there are so many chars that people want to see that it could be an almost never ending saga. Monsterous transformers like metroplex and trypticon, fortress maximus, head masters, power masters, etc. But I think the biggest right now are the dinobots, unicron, galvatron, ultra magnus and possibly even the passing of optimus to roddimus prime. There are some really big transformers with even bigger possible explosions (what could be bigger than a planet sized explosion in the upper atmosphere, even bigger than the failed jump of cybertron). There are a lot of heros/vilans that have not been touched yet.....and can absolutely kill the series for good if not done right. How do you transform a city?

[Spyder Veteran]

[The Teej]

Personally I want a Transformers/Gundam crossover. That would be amazing.

[giantpotato]

there are so many chars that people want to see that it could be an almost never ending saga. Monsterous transformers like metroplex and trypticon, fortress maximus, head masters, power masters, etc. But I think the biggest right now are the dinobots, unicron, galvatron, ultra magnus and possibly even the passing of optimus to roddimus prime. There are some really big transformers with even bigger possible explosions (what could be bigger than a planet sized explosion in the upper atmosphere, even bigger than the failed jump of cybertron). There are a lot of heros/vilans that have not been touched yet.....and can absolutely kill the series for good if not done right. How do you transform a city?

I personally don't want to see any massive transformers in a movie. It worked for a cartoon, but it doesn't really work for live action. That just seems like going big just for the sake of being bigger than the last movie. It's like the cheesy super-sized villains in power rangers. They should just try to stick to 'normal'-sized Transformers and try to develop their character.

[Alladaskill17]

That's milking the franchise a bit much isn't it?

My thoughts exactly.

[Guest xiphi]

I hope it's a pre-Earth setting. Take it back to where it all started: Cybertron. There's so much they can do with the movies beyond just Optimus and Megatron.

[+Warwagon MVC]

I want a more dark serious movie. I want a Ridley Scott black hawk down style transformers

[Razorwing]

I'm for it. Just another popcorn flick.

[Scorbing]

After Michael Bay said "No more Transformers for me", seems Paramount has managed to convince him to do 1 more.

Full Story here:

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/14/transformers-4-arriving-in-june-2014/

[Guest xiphi]

Already posted. https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1057928-transformers-4-director-date-set/

[Scorbing]

Maybe Shia LaBeouf will return as an evil Transformer....LOL

Seriously, Paramount must have offered Bay a large sum of cash because I remember him saying that the third installment was his last and that he didn't want anything more to do with robots so he must have gotten a hell of a deal.

[trag3dy]

I'll watch it. :rofl:

As bad as the others were I still enjoyed them. Though the last one was a bit too long.

[Gotenks98]

there are so many chars that people want to see that it could be an almost never ending saga. Monsterous transformers like metroplex and trypticon, fortress maximus, head masters, power masters, etc. But I think the biggest right now are the dinobots, unicron, galvatron, ultra magnus and possibly even the passing of optimus to roddimus prime. There are some really big transformers with even bigger possible explosions (what could be bigger than a planet sized explosion in the upper atmosphere, even bigger than the failed jump of cybertron). There are a lot of heros/vilans that have not been touched yet.....and can absolutely kill the series for good if not done right. How do you transform a city?

For the love of Gawd no just no, Rodimus was the worst leader they ever had. All he ever did was run away from responsibility and second guess himself as a leader. These videos just about sum it up.

NSFW just warning you.