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[Blurrz]

Michael Bay's website has been updated, featuring a little update on Transformers 3. Here's what went down:

Nelson here...

I spoke to Michael today and he had a little update on his future projects:

-He will be meeting later this week with Steven Spielberg, and Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for
Transformers 3. By the end of the week he should have an idea if Transformers 3 will hit your local cineplex in the summer of 2011 or 2012.
-In the meantime "Pain & Gain" is looking very possible as is...
-...Bad Boys 3. Either film coming to a theater near you before or after Transformers 3.

[santoanderson]

I'll be the first to say that I loved TF1. Definitely one of my favorite 2007 movies. There was a terrific balance of heart, action, mystery, fantasy, and humor (with a couple small exceptions). But man TF2 wasn't all that great. I'll buy the blu ray, but only for the action scenes and a couple of lines. The plot felt convoluted. Things that really needed to be explained were left unexplained. And most of all, the story just kind of tripped along as we went from scene to scene. It was 2 and a half hours of fart jokes intermingled with occasional scenes with Robots. That and the humor in this one was far too juvenile:

A place to cook food-bot with a dong-gun.
Numerous fire-farting robots.
Dog on dog humping.
Jon Turturro's butt.
Racist robots.
Leo.

I could go on and on, but the point is, I think all of that was a result of Michael Bay. If he makes TF3, Michael needs to check his adolescent humor at the door and try and make something more in line with TF1.

[LiKwid]

Bay did not rape your childhood.. He is not the anti-christ...He not the %100 person to blame for some of the points you made.. He's just the easy choice lol.. The writing on ROTF was atrocious, Kurtzman and Orci were bad choices to write that flick, they should stick with fringe.. Not to mention this ridiculous style of directing Bay uses. The direct 50 setups a day is great for the studio and the guys writing the checks but ROTF suffered from it badly.. I think we can all agree that ROTF felt entirely too rushed.. Bay needs more time and a budget to go with it..

[UltraPrimal]

Before actually reading the article, I just saw "meeting with Steven Spielberg" and immediately hoped that it said:

Got call into a meeting with Steven Spielberg today and was told I won't be doing TF3 and that they'll be getting somebody competent to direct the next one...

Oh well, back to work on Bad Boys 3! 50 Cent and the Rock are gonna be in it and do all the music for it. The story is about these two guys with a jewel encrusted skull that's stolen by aliens who blow up the White House. So they fight their way around the world, shooting lots of terrorists in the desert because they're after the skull too, until they finally get to the aliens secret Island base of Alcatraz. But then the aliens use the skull to summon an asteroid to destroy the Earth. So Fifty and the Rock have to fly a top secret jet, that transforms into a penis, into space and drill a hole in the asteroid and then plant a giant nuke in it to blow it up. Then there's some sexy, naked, green alien chicks, and I still haven't figured out the rest, but it's gonna be AWESOME!

Was I the only person that thought that? Does that make me a bad person?

[santoanderson]

I never said Bay raped my childhood. Quite the opposite really. I didn't really get into Transformers until the first movie came out.

Besides, the whole Kurtzman Orci argument doesn't fly. Star Trek was excellent and was written by the same writing team. Even the writers were a little embarrassed by some of the, ummm, humor present in the film, but not the script. And let's not forget, a movie is like a train. If a train barrels off a cliff, who do you blame? The conductor. When a movie sucks, who do you blame? The director. He calls all the shots. And it's not like Bay is known for thought-provoking Dickensian story-lines outside of Transformers. The guy's known for three things: Car Chases, boobs, and fart jokes.

[shonenfan4]

I just hope we wait for 2 years like between 2007 Movie and ROTF instead of 3 years for TF3.

[Megatron Wolf]

Heres an idea, dont bother. Let this version of TF die. Nothing good can come of a 3rd one (well except hasbro making a shit load of money & thats why it will never die). With this track record its just going to be a bunch of 3rd grade toilet humor with a bunch of explosions, no talent actors and no plot once so ever. Unless he tries to make the 1st movie again(or just tries to make a real movie for once). That one sucked as a TF continuity but it at least stood up as a stand alone movie. ROTF was just pure garbage. If he is going to go through with a 3rd one then he better stay in tune with the fandom. But i doubt it since he already T-Baged us all with a giant frakin monkey bot. He might as well just flipped us off and been done with it. Im not even going to bother seeing the 3rd one. Ive lost enough brain cells as it is from the one viewing of ROTF.

[Oilspill]

Damn. The TF movie scene could use a new director and new writers IMO. It needs some freshening up and a new approach after TF2.

I know it did well at the box office, but I think that's mostly because people enjoyed TF1 and were hoping for more of that caliber (or better).

[Savage]

Having seen "Star Trek", I can't blame the writers too much for TF2. It's plain that they can write a good complex film. Therefore, I blame the Director for faults in TF2. That said, I still thoroughly enjoyed the movie and am looking forward to the third installation. Of course, I'm praying they'll use the third film to give us a mature, detailed, complex, and kick-ass story.

[Joshua Vallse]

Before actually reading the article, I just saw "meeting with Steven Spielberg" and immediately hoped that it said:

Got call into a meeting with Steven Spielberg today and was told I won't be doing TF3 and that they'll be getting somebody competent to direct the next one...

Oh well, back to work on Bad Boys 3! 50 Cent and the Rock are gonna be in it and do all the music for it. The story is about these two guys with a jewel encrusted skull that's stolen by aliens who blow up the White House. So they fight their way around the world, shooting lots of terrorists in the desert because they're after the skull too, until they finally get to the aliens secret Island base of Alcatraz. But then the aliens use the skull to summon an asteroid to destroy the Earth. So Fifty and the Rock have to fly a top secret jet, that transforms into a penis, into space and drill a hole in the asteroid and then plant a giant nuke in it to blow it up. Then there's some sexy, naked, green alien chicks, and I still haven't figured out the rest, but it's gonna be AWESOME!

Was I the only person that thought that? Does that make me a bad person?

Ha ha ha....this does not make you a bad person....just aware.

At the very least, I would say Speilberg would pass on Producer rites to Bay if he chose (or was instructed) not to direct the Third film just so the marketing team could tag his name to TF3. Kind of like they did with Friday the 13th. But I find it funny he would choose a winner like Bad Boys 3 over Transformers 3. That shows some interesting direction right there. I mean, the Bad Boys franchise surely is a giant to to go on par with the Transformers franchise right? Right?

If he does go through with it, I would prefer a 2011 release date verses the 2010 date I think Paramount announced. Even then, if you need that extra year, by all means take it buddy boy. But don't push up the release date just for the sake of Bad Boys 3. If thats the case I would strangle Paramount for "NOT" getting a replacement director.

Josh