Reading the article. Comments below.
* Bay lost three inches of his hair filming a fire sequence for the film 13 Hours, not TLK. This was right before he met up with the writers over Skype on the first day of the Writer Room back in June 2015.
* So it was Bay who convinced Paramount to put together the Writers Room since, in his eyes, the Transformers film franchise was "getting stale" and "gonna die" at the rate it was going.
* The writer of Black Hawk Down and the writers of Iron Man 1 being the writers of TLK give me some sense of hope that this film might possibly be a step up from the preceding sequels.
* Like Bay back in the mid-2000s, the Writers Room team had to go through "Transformers School", in which the article says that they went through "14 billion years of history".
* Prior to the Writers Room, Ken Nolan hadn't even seen any of the TF movies yet. So right before he was due for the Writers Room, he binge-watched all four of them and "almost went to an insane asylum."
* I'm a bit hesitant on the notion of this film squishing three treatments together (King Arthur, WWII, and Quintessa), as AOE already felt like 2+ films squished together haphazardly.
* Santiago Cabrera is playing Merlin? O...kay?
* In that little bit on the left side of the third page, what do these people got against the Insecticons? Even the Tom Hanks movie Big established that robots turning into insects was cool.
* The Bumblebee film having a younger tone sounds promising.
* The writers of Ant-Man doing the animated Cybertron prequel is the best news of this article yet!
* Lorezo di Bonaventura immediately shot down any notion of an R-rated Transformers film. Good! Though, sadly, Bay likes the idea.
* Though I agree with Bay that orange is an unattractive lighting color, I wish he didn't feel that he had to cuss out his own people.
* The notion of John Turturro having based Simmons on Bay is mentioned here as something that was admitted back when the first film was made.
* Heh, Turturro previously wanted to cast Bay in a film that he (Turturro) was directing, and if Bay hadn't been in Cuba filming TLK at the time, he would have done it instead of having to turn it down. He would have played a famous hairdresser and would have shot a guy in the butt.
