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TDB: With Transformers: Age of Extinction, did you agree to do that one for your kids?

MW: Well, it was exciting because it was the first time my kids were really interested in a movie I was doing. Any time they see me with a gun, like Contraband or Pain & Gain, they want to see that, too, but they can’t because of the language and all that stuff. But I loved working with Michael Bay, and I thought he had a really interesting way to make it new, different, and fresh. Plus, being in movies that have the potential to be hugely successful allows me to make smaller movies that I’m really passionate about.

TDB: What’s going to make this Transformers different? The first one was OK, but then the sequels were a total mess.

MW: It was a tighter script, and its own stand-alone thing. I think the emotional core of it, the human element, is going to be extremely powerful. It’s an ordinary man trying to do extraordinary things to save his daughter and keep her alive—and this boyfriend he didn’t know anything about. He’d had a child when he was in high school and his wife passed away, and the promise he’d made to her was that she wouldn’t date any boys until she graduated and that she’d be at the graduation—because we weren’t due to the pregnancy. So there’s an anchor to it and a realness to it that I like a lot.

...I hurt my neck in Hong Kong, and it hasn’t gotten better yet. I just woke up in the morning and couldn’t move, but still had to shoot 10 days of crazy action."

"I think the emotional core of it, the human element, is going to be extremely powerful. It’s an ordinary man trying to do extraordinary things to save his daughter and keep her alive"

njb902 wrote:I don't think we will get a bot centric movie for some time guys. The technology just doesn't exist yet for them to make a reasonably priced movie with the amount of cgi we all want.

Deathscythetransform wrote:Tf 1 was more than okay, and ROTF and DOTM were maybe a mess, but they fetched more money than you could ever count, dickhead!

#Sideways# wrote: It adds in that extra element that really fleshes out the picture as a whole, and if the human element is done well in this film, I see it doing no different.

#Sideways# wrote:Whereas I agree that a Transformer-based Transformer movie would be fantastic, and that making a human-centric story is rather disappointing, considering the fact that the third one seemed to pull off a lot of Transformers-centricity in the story, the fact remains that it is actually quite important to the overall scheme of things. Like adding in romance to a film or television show. I hate romance films, but if Steins;Gate, Fullmetal Alchemist, or NCIS, CSI, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D., any other show on the market that is doing well at all didn't have that element in them, it would be a bland story. It adds in that extra element that really fleshes out the picture as a whole, and if the human element is done well in this film, I see it doing no different.

#Sideways# wrote:Whereas I agree that a Transformer-based Transformer movie would be fantastic, and that making a human-centric story is rather disappointing, considering the fact that the third one seemed to pull off a lot of Transformers-centricity in the story, the fact remains that it is actually quite important to the overall scheme of things. Like adding in romance to a film or television show. I hate romance films, but if Steins;Gate, Fullmetal Alchemist, or NCIS, CSI, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D., any other show on the market that is doing well at all didn't have that element in them, it would be a bland story. It adds in that extra element that really fleshes out the picture as a whole, and if the human element is done well in this film, I see it doing no different.

Rodimus Prime wrote:So this will be very human-centric as well? I was hoping for an actual Transformers story...