Back when Michael Bay was making Transformers 3, he made no secret of the fact that he didn't plan on returning for a fourth installment. But eventually he came around to the idea, and now he's explaining why he changed his mind and will be back for Transformers 4.
But first! Amid recent rumors that there will be a new array of robots in Transformers 4, Bay was asked whether or not fan favorite Peter Cullen will return as the voice of Optimus Prime. His response: "Of course! Of course." Rest easy, Prime fans, rest easy...
As for why he's coming back to the director's chair -- for what the filmmaker seems confident is one last time -- Bay said the following:
"I thought I was done," he tells The Huffington Post. "Then the ride came out [at Universal Studios Hollywood] and the two-and-a-half-hour lines. And then you're thinking, Oh my God, someone's going to take this over. And you start doing a lot of soul-searching. Like, OK, I'm about to do a little movie, Pain & Gain ... and the studio says they want to restart the franchise. And someone could come in here and screw it up, you know? So I'm thinking that if I do this last one, we set it on a new footing, we change a lot of things -- but we keep the history of the three in place. But we broaden it so it can be set up and be carried on -- it would have a better chance for survival, I guess. You know?"
Bay also points to James Cameron and his Avatar sequels and Peter Jackson and The Hobbit trilogy, saying "When you have a franchise, it's very hard to give it up."
As for whether or not the film will be a reboot, the director says no.
"We're basically taking from the history of where it was -- or where we left it in Chicago [in the last film]," he explains. "And we're going to carry it on from there."
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