Revenge of the Fallen has tainted Michael Bay though the fault isn’t fully his to blame. After being berated by frustrated fans in 2009 by claiming the delivery of the movie is near to rubbish, Michael Bay believes he got it right this time. Circumstances conspired to weaken the 2009 sequel when the script was rushed to completion because of a writers’ strike. Bay moved forward regardless.
By contrast, Bay and writer Ehren Kruger spent eight months prepping the “Transformers 3” screenplay. Bay then persuaded the city of Chicago to give his film crew unlimited access to landmark skyscrapers in order to shoot footage that details a robot invasion of the city. “They let us do anything we wanted,” Bay says.
Advance buzz for “Transformers 3,” which opens July 1, produced a record-breaking 6 million downloads of the online trailer during its first day of release. If “Transformers 3” performs as expected, will there be room for a fourth chapter in the $1.5 billion saga?
Bay says, Transformers may come back as the fourth or a possible reboot, but it won’t be with Shia LaBeouf. The trilogy’s star, Bay says, is no fan of the “wire” rigs required for some action scenes. The filmmaker laughs, “Shia’s turning grumpy in his old age.”
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