Transformers 4 Will Ditch The Old Cast And Redesign The Robots

Date: Jun 6, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Even if you love what Michael Bay has done with the Transformers movies so far, you have to admit that he’s taken this formula about as far as it can go. They’re doing a fourth movie but it seems clear that in order to get anyone interested, they need to change things up, or risk a failure on the scale of that fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie everyone has already forgotten ever existed.

Michael Bay seems to be keenly aware of this problem. It’s part of why he took a long time to decide if he’d be back at the helm for Transformers 4. Now that he will be back, it sounds like he’s determined to take things in a completely different direction.

Talking to Hero Complex Bay confirmed that they’re bringing in an entirely new cast. That means all the familiar human characters are gone. No more Shia Labeouf, no more Tyrese or Josh Duhamel. None of those Sector 7 weirdos. They’re bringing in fresh blood.

It’s not just the humans they’ll be changing up either. Bay says they also plan to redesign some of the robots.

Expect a new look and a new kind of story for Transformers 4 which, by the way, will absolutely be Michael Bay’s last Transformers movie. His stated goal is to create a movie that sets the franchise up for “the next guy.” If there’s a Transformers 5, Michael Bay won’t be involved.

Comments

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000201287387 Steve Wright

Make then all Generation 1 & 2 would be a great start and add Unicron, Galvatron, Hot Rod or Rodimus & Ultra Magnus. Wreck-Gar. Throw a spin that it’s on Cybertron. and make Optimus Gen 1.
http://www.facebook.com/verne.munroe Verne Munroe

Weak! It’s not his place to make such changes to the story, as he didn’t create the Transformers. He’s already done enough damage to the story line by changing all sorts of things. I hope his Transformers 4 flops horribly, and I hope he never gets work in Hollywood again. I am sick of people taking established stories and characters and changing them to suit their idea of what they think those stories and characters should be.

Nightmare on Elm Street, remade, changed and ruined.
Star Trek, remade changed and ruined.
Transformers, remade, changed and ruined.
Halloween, remade, changed and ruined.

There’s 4 examples as to why you should leave the story line and characters alone, and just remake the film. No new lines, no new scenes, no changes like changing the “Autobot Matrix of leadership” into the “Allspark”.

Hollywood, if you want to remake a film, that’s fine, but it doesn’t give you permission to go and change anything and everything you want to change. When I go to see a Transformers film, I want it to be based on the Transformers cartoon, the one I watched as a kid, with Optimus Prime, Hot Rod, Ultramagnus, Bumblebee, The Dinobots, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, Spacetrain, the Constructicons, the Sharkticons, the Junkians, and most definitely Unicron, all making appearances at some point in the series of remakes. You remake a film for the fans, not to stroke your own ego and turn loved stories and characters into whatever you want them to be. The sooner you Hollywood people realize this, the sooner you’ll start making remakes that aren’t flops at the box office.
- skello
  
  Incorrect, remakes are about making money off an existing franchise, and that cant be done by adhereing literally verbatim to the existing movie/series, because the original fanbase will not be large enough to support the money going in, thus changes must be made to target a more contemporary demographic. not to mention u cannt transfer a series into a movie as easily as that, timelines need to be condensed, the scope needs to be narrowed, its the same pitfall that book adaptions have, there is just too many facets or information to account for, and so things need to be adapted for it to be successful.
Kapt

There should be NO fourth movie! Stop making them now while they are still good

Giant Freakin Robot