LOL Spielberg thinks the 3rd one was the best. 

Michael Bay Back for Transformers 4, Gets Money for Pain and Gain



Studios dangling funding for a smaller, less commercially viable project to a director in hopes said director agrees to direct a big event film for them in return is nothing new. That’s essentially how Universal got Peter Berg to agree to direct “Battleship” for them, by promising money for his Afghanistan War set Navy SEALs film “Lone Survivor”.

Paramount is apparently taking that same approach to get Michael Bay back for “Transformers 4″ — by promising funding for Bay’s “Pain and Gain”, a film that definitely isn’t in Bay’s usual wheelhouse, in that there is no explosions, no crazy gunfights, and one presumes, no giant transforming robots in the entire movie. (Presumably, of course.)

Vulture reports that Bay will indeed get the funding for “Pain and Gain”, which he’ll shoot first before jumping back onboard the fourth installment of the popular (and box-office dominating) sci-fi franchise. Which, we’re told, is not going to be a prequel as originally thought, but a continuation of the first three movies. And of course, with Bay back, it’s doubtful the film will go the “gritty and dark” route that was rumored earlier this year.

So what’s this based-on-a-true-story “Pain and Gain” movie all about that Bay wants so badly to make? The plot apparently concerns “a group of dimwitted Miami bodybuilders who kidnapped, tortured and robbed a Florida businessman but got their comeuppance when their left-for-dead victim hires a private eye to hunt them down.”

Wow. Talk about anti-Bay. I could see Steven Soderbergh making a movie like that, though. But Bay? Not so much. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is apparently in talks for one of the roles, with Mark Wahlberg originally in play, but no longer. Too bad, because I could definitely see those two playing gym rat meatheads.

Then again, he is Michael Bay, and he’s awesome, so who am I to doubt him.

Reboot?

Shia lebuff too old already for the show..

wtf and i thought Bay said Dark of the Moon WILL be his last Transformers movie?  

Not that he wants to. The PRODUCERS wanted him.

All the more problem with statistics showing who earns big bucks. haha.

After denying rumors in recent weeks that Mark Wahlberg would head up Transformers 4, director Michael Bay has apparently taken inspiration from those same rumors and now cast the star in the pending sequel.

Bay blogged last week that "internet chatter gave me some ideas" regarding Wahlberg, and now the helmer has confirmed that the two will in fact team for the fourth film in the giant-robot series. Bay and Wahlberg just shot Paramount's Pain and Gain together.

“Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on Pain and Gain and I’m so fired up to be back working with him. An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers’ legacy,” said Bay.

Shooting begins in the spring for a June 27th, 2014, release. Ehren Krueger wrote the script for Transformers 4, which will reportedly set out in a mostly new direction from its predecessors… aside from the, you know, whole giant robot thing.