With Transformers: Age of Extinction currently getting scathing reviews (read ours here) but still making more money that we can even imagine, the producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura decided to have a little chat with Slashfilm about what’s next in the franchise…
With the movies increasingly getting longer, with the current one sitting at 165 minutes, Slashfilm asked if there was any chance of the next one trimming the running time: “I think a couple things are at work. One is we have so many ideas it’s hard to [fit them all in]. And the other is, the truth is Michael likes long movies. And if you look at all of his movies, they tend to be long. Not just the Transformers movies, you know. So I think that’s what he likes to do and I think, you know, hoping he stays with the franchise, we’ll probably have another long movie.”
Next, they talk about the possibility that Bay will not return for the next movie and what would they look for in the next director: “I wouldn’t wanna be them, but there will be somebody. I think the opportunity’s too great. My suspicion is, without having thought really about it at all, cause I really want Michael to return, I think Michael’s found the right mix for this franchise. So the sense of humor, obviously the scale. The invention that’s going on, all these things he really likes and clearly has found a way to continue to top himself. But, you know, I guess if you had to think about who would be the next one, my guess is it would be somebody who probably was a kid who watched the show as a kid because then they’ll have a fundamental understanding of the D.N.A. in a way. And are able to bring that thing that you have when you’ve grown up with it. It sinks into you in a different way.
This is interesting as it gives hope that the next movie or whenever it continues without Bay, may take the series down the road that fans wanted from the beginning… Bay, after all, never understood Transformers, so is there hope yet? Hard to say because, like it or not, these movies make a tonne of money…
Marc
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