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News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:56 am

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:58 am

As vague as they are (and rightly so at this stage), he's making the right noises.

News Credits: 1 · by **lodelco** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:27 am

I'm all for keeping the magic and the heart but what is this about 'bigger'?

New Transformers, aircraft carrier and that rumour about Devestator...thats definitely big.

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:31 am

Hm, I'm fairly certain by "heart and magic" Bay actually meant: "remember the explosions and explosions."

by **The Mad Asshatter** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:32 am

Senor Hugo wrote:Hm, I'm fairly certain by "heart and magic" Bay actually meant: "remember the explosions and explosions."

Well ****! I thought I was supposed to remember the Titans.

News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:12 pm

The Mad Asshatter wrote:
Senor Hugo wrote:Hm, I'm fairly certain by "heart and magic" Bay actually meant: "remember the explosions and explosions."

Well ****! I thought I was supposed to remember the Titans.

Do you "Remember the time"

by **The Mad Asshatter** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:14 pm

Robinson wrote:
The Mad Asshatter wrote:
Senor Hugo wrote:Hm, I'm fairly certain by "heart and magic" Bay actually meant: "remember the explosions and explosions."

Well ****! I thought I was supposed to remember the Titans.

Do you "Remember the time"

News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:22 pm

The Mad Asshatter wrote:
Robinson wrote:
The Mad Asshatter wrote:
Senor Hugo wrote:Hm, I'm fairly certain by "heart and magic" Bay actually meant: "remember the explosions and explosions."

Well ****! I thought I was supposed to remember the Titans.

Do you "Remember the time"

by **The Mad Asshatter** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:30 pm

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:27 pm

Robinson wrote:
E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

by **robocrim** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:42 pm

Autobot032 wrote:
Robinson wrote:
E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

i dont get why people hate on michael bay so much hes a pretty good director. i cant wait for TF2 and the new Jason movie and 2012: the war for souls

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:50 pm

Sounds good for short and vague, which would be any project analysis two years before its release.

Gotta buy stock in HASBRO within the next 6 months.

by **korean-ironhide** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:56 pm

i want wheeljack in the next movie, hes krunk
and rebuild jazz!

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:56 pm

What 'heart and magic'? Is that code for T&A? Or 'explosions and CGI'?

by **Sonray** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:02 pm

So far so good.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:11 pm

1337W422102 wrote:What 'heart and magic'? Is that code for T&A? Or 'explosions and CGI'?

Steven Spielberg's "A boy and his car", the part of the story many people seem to overlook that's the key part of the 1st Transformers Movie.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:36 pm

Seibertron wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:What 'heart and magic'? Is that code for T&A? Or 'explosions and CGI'?

Steven Spielberg's "A boy and his car", the part of the story many people seem to overlook that's the key part of the 1st Transformers Movie.

Naaaa...more booms! More booms! more booms! Me want more BOOMS! And Bigger bots! bring on the noise! Make it rain! Give a glimpse of Cybertron! Show me the money! You got the Touch! Fire! Brimstone! Rivers and Seas boiling! 40 years of Darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! Human Sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass hysteria!!

by **Nemesis Cyberplex** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:49 pm

lodelco wrote:I'm all for keeping the magic and the heart but what is this about 'bigger'?

New Transformers, aircraft carrier and that rumour about Devestator...thats definitely big.

No, remember.....Devastator was in the first movie(Brawl)....so they can't have him in any other movies as multiple robots that make a big one, because that would confuse people.....

News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:07 pm

First-Aid wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
1337W422102 wrote:What 'heart and magic'? Is that code for T&A? Or 'explosions and CGI'?

Steven Spielberg's "A boy and his car", the part of the story many people seem to overlook that's the key part of the 1st Transformers Movie.

Naaaa...more booms! More booms! more booms! Me want more BOOMS! And Bigger bots! bring on the noise! Make it rain! Give a glimpse of Cybertron! Show me the money! You got the Touch! Fire! Brimstone! Rivers and Seas boiling! 40 years of Darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! Human Sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass hysteria!!

No touchy.

She's a dog, my girlfriends a dog.

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:13 pm

Sweet new characters! come on Jetfire!

by **opjet** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:39 pm

jetfire maybe please lord let jf be in tf2

by **Toyotus Superion** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:46 pm

Autobot032 wrote:
Robinson wrote:
E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:55 pm

heart and magic at least you know hes making just to make money and to get lucky that it does well as the first one or not theres not to many directors that care about the film seires but bay sounds like he does and the way hes talking the sequel will be better and bigger than the first no doubt.

News Credits: 1 · by **Roll_Out** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:08 pm

I happy to hear he is looking to keep the same feel of the first move for #2.

I hate it when sequels don't feel like there predecessors. for example: The Matrix sequels, the Pirates sequels, The Riddick movies.

by **Bouncy X** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:18 pm

well say whatever you will about Bay, he's the dude who waited almost 10yrs between Bad Boys sequels when he could have easily just spewed another out right away....so at the very least, if he does a sequel he seems to wanna make sure its worthy. now lets hope it doesnt take 10yrs for this but just saying. lol