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Director Michael Bay says he went against the wishes ofTransformersexecutive producerSteven Spielbergwhen he expanded the film franchise beyond a trilogy.
Bay, 57, directed the first threeTransformersfilms —Transformers(2007),Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(2009) andTransformers: Dark of the Moon(2011) — and went on to direct two more and produce later installments.
While speaking toUnilad UKabout his latest movie,Ambulance, Bay said Spielberg, 75, once advised him to leave theTransformersfranchise after completing the trilogy, but he rejected the director’s advice.
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“I made too many of them,” Bay told the outlet. “Steven Spielberg said, ‘Just stop at three’. And I said I’d stop. The studio begged me to do a fourth, and then that made a billion too. And then I said I’m gonna stop here. And they begged me again. I should have stopped. [But] they were fun to do.”
Reflecting on his 2007Transformersfilm, which starredShia LaBeoufas Sam Witwicky andMegan Foxas Mikaela Banes, Bay said, “The first one was scary.”
He explained, “It was technology we didn’t know would work, and then it became very successful.”
Bay added, “It was the first time digital effects were that highly reflective, so it broke a lot of new ground. It was a fun experience. It made more than [$709 million], that’s a lot of movie tickets and a lot of people that have seen it.”
Despite the size of theTransformersfranchise, Bay insisted to Unilad UK, “I’m passionate about any movie I do, fromPain & Gainto13 Hours. I like going from big to small, you want to move off the same thing.”
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Spielberg has executive produced sevenTransformersfilms in total. The famed director has worked onTransformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Transformers: The Last Knight, Bumblebeeand the upcomingRise of the Beasts.
source: people.com
