Before Optimus Prime became a movie fixture for millions, the idea nearly ended on a phone call. Michael Bay said that he hung up on Steven Spielberg’s pitch, thinking “I’m not doing that silly movie because it sounds like a toy movie.”
Almost two decades later, the two are circling the franchise again. Paramount has appointed Spielberg to lead creative direction on the next live-action Transformers movie alongside longtime producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Bay, who directed the first five films, is in early talks to return as director. Together, the report says, the pair will guide the new chapter toward the spirit of the early films.
Spielberg’s original pitch, as Bay recalled it, centered on a boy getting his first car that turns out to be an alien. Bay changed course after a crash course in the franchise’s lore at Hasbro headquarters, and the 2007 film grossed $709 million worldwide. Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction each passed $1 billion, according to Variety.
Bay was the first filmmaker producers considered, and after reading Jason Fuchs’ script he met with Spielberg earlier this week. Spielberg took the hands-on role after reading Fuchs’ latest script, according to Deadline.
Spielberg has been an executive producer on every live-action Transformers film since 2007 and he will “oversee all creative aspects” of the eighth installment. The script, set in the modern day, comes from Fuchs, whose credits include Wonder Woman, Argylle and It: Welcome to Derry.
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Paramount and Hasbro set Fuchs to write the film in June, as one of several Transformers scripts in development, including a G.I. Joe crossover written by Derek Connolly. Bay, Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy are among the producers named on the project. A new film was confirmed in development at CinemaCon earlier this year.
Spielberg said in a behind-the-scenes documentary that “Michael Bay was born to direct Transformers.” Bay later said that Spielberg once advised him to “just stop at three.” He directed five before stepping away after 2017’s The Last Knight. Travis Knight then directed Bumblebee and Steven Caple Jr. directed Rise of the Beasts, with Bay and Spielberg staying on as producers. The film does not yet have an official release date.
The new film arrives without Peter Cullen, who voiced Optimus Prime and died in August at 85. Cullen first gave the Autobot leader his voice in the 1984 animated series and returned to the role for Bay’s live-action films beginning in 2007. He said the voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated Marine who served in Vietnam.
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