Michael Bay Says Steven Spielberg Told Him To Stop Making Transformers Movies: ‘I’ve Made Too Much’

transformers Series director Michael Bay has revealed that Executive Producer Steven Spielberg has recommended stopping blockbuster films about disguised robots. The bad boys And the disaster The director directed five transformers Films between 2007 and 2017, including a consecutive trilogy of transformersAnd the Transformers revenge of the fallenAnd the Transformers: Dark of the Moon. According to Spielberg, who executive produced with Bay, it should have stopped there. But Bey will continue to direct two more, Transformers: Age of Extinction And the Transformers: The Last Knight.

“I made a lot of them,” Bay said. UNILAD UK While promoting his new movie Ambulance. Steven Spielberg said, ‘Just stop at three.’ And I said I would stop. I begged the studio to do fourth, and then it made a billion too. Then I said I would stop here. And they begged me again. I should have stopped. [But] It was fun to do.”

Bey’s five films, led by stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Mark Wahlberg, have grossed $4 billion globally. year 2011 dark moon and 2014 era of extinction Both earned more than $1 billion at the box office, but the Bay-Direct franchise saw diminishing returns: The last knight They totaled $605 million in 2017.

Travis Knight took charge of a smaller prequel bumblebeeexecutive produced by Bay, was also listed as a producer on the sequel to director Stephen Capley Jr. in the 1990s. Transformers: Rise of the Monsters.

Bay told Spielberg that the original 2007 version of Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks was “scary,” explaining, “It was a technology we didn’t know would work, and then it became very successful.”

“This was the first time that digital effects were so highly reflective, so it opened up a lot of new horizons,” Bay said of the latest CGI technology that brings the Autobots and Decepticons to life. “It was a fun experience. I achieved more than [$709 million]That’s a lot of movie tickets and a lot of people who watched it.”

Paramount Pictures has been scheduled Transformers: Rise of the Monsters It opens in theaters June 9, 2023.

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