Michael Bay Returning as Director for 'Transformers 5'
By Borys Kit
Michael Bay is returning to the director’s chair for another Transformers movie.
The director, hitting the press circuit for his latest Paramount movie, the Benghazi action thriller 13 Hours, confirmed to Rolling Stone that he will direct the new installment in the multi-billion dollar franchise.
Paramount recently held sessions with writers to create a new direction for the franchise and the new script is being written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man) along with Black Hawk Down scribe Ken Nolan.
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Mark Walhberg, who starred in Transformers: Age of Extinction, is expected to return. Age of Extinction was a reboot of the previous three movies but this new movie is expected to change gears as it attempts to create a greater cinematic universe for Transformers.
Bay insisted to Rolling Stone that this will be his last. “Transformers, I still have a great time. It’s fun to do a movie that 100 million people will see. But this is the last one. I have to pass the reins to someone else,“ he said.
But Bay has said that before, only to return to robots in disguise movie.
13 Hours opens January 15.
