Michael Bay Will Have No Part in ‘Transformers 2′

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 21, 2007

The battle over Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has allegedly reached its turning point. Yesterday Coming Soon reported that Paramount and Dreamworks would be officially taking sides in the great HD medium battle, committing to HD-DVD as the exclusive format for all releases under the Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films and Dreamworks Animation titles. Today, Transformers director Michael Bay fired back, saying he doesn’t agree. And it gets worse…

“I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!” Bay said on the forum of his official site, Shoot for the Edit.

The question is whether or not the studio will even give a flying shit about Bay’s opinion. They did roll over for Stephen Spielberg’s films, saying in their press release that the announcement “does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format.” Will they do the same for Bay? No one can be certain at this point. But it does raise a concern around a Transformers sequel. To my knowledge, Bay was locked in for 3 flicks if the studio should choose to make them. Who knows. My personal feeling is that they should release films on both formats for now, allowing consumers to decide. So many manufacturers have already begun work on dual-format players, leading this reporter to believe that this “Format War” is going to go on for a long time. I can’t understand why they’d want to fight it.

Oh yeah. It’s the money. How foolish of me to forget?

What do you think about this whole mess?

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Kevin Carr

Aside from the fact that HD-DVD and BluRay are dinosaurs from the get-go (in other words, a newer, better format is only a year or two away), I love to hear the words "Michael Bay Will Have No Part In..." Fill in the blank, folks.

Neil Miller

Kevin Carr -- I forgot that you were my arch nemesis! Thank you for reminding me.

RE: This story... I have one more thought. If Bay doesn't direct Transformers: Part Duex it will surely suck.

Sato

more than the first one? impossible

Kevin Carr

I nominate Renny Harlin to direct "Transformers." I love his garbage.

Either way, I predict the sequel will be a big number two.

abby

ONLY IF JAMES CAMERON TAKES OVER THE TRANSFOMRERS FRANCHISE....

dennis lo

there must be a transformer part 2 beco'z my two son like that movie

Michael Bay Sucks

Thank God if he won't have anything to do with it! Bay is without a doubt the worst director in Hollywood today!
I just bought this movie on DVD and feel sourly dissapointed -you can't even tell who is fighting who- a lot of good action and special effects ruined with pointless camera angles swinging around and it's really difficult to follow and i actually started to get motion sickness from it after a while which totally spoiled my pleasure of it.
The pseudo love story is pathetic- the acting is faceless,one dimensional stereotypical.
There is ZERO character development- I didn't even care for a single character in the movie. I don't even know who any of the human characters are (as they are all bland mediocre Hollywood actors anyway).
Megatron played a pointless role -and Hugo Weaving's voiceovers were wasted.

The only plus side? Bringing back the voice of the original Optimus Prime.
Michael Bay -you suck!

Michael Bay Will Have No Part in ‘Transformers 2′

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