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Michael Bay To Direct Transformers 4

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Michael Bay will direct the upcoming Transformers film. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirmed the director’s involvement with the movie.

“Yeah Michael’s gonna direct and it’ll be releasing in the summer of 2014,” said Di Bonaventura. “We’re excited and I think the challenge there is we really are gonna do a reboot, and what that’s gonna be we don’t even know yet.”

Di Bonaventura said that he and Bay were still in the development process, but they wanted to bring a new element to the project.

“I think we really are going to do a reboot there,” Di Bonaventura said. “[But] what that’s going to be, we don’t even know yet…. We’ve got to get a story first.” The producer indicated that none of the cast of the original three are signed for a sequel, but it’s likely that he and Bay would create at least a few new characters for the film. “It’s a hybrid because there’s still continuity going on, and there will be a lot of new cast,” he said. “Whether there’s anybody from the first cast, we don’t even know yet. But it’s going to be a whole new story.”

The first three Transformers films earned $2.6 billion worldwide.

Transformers 4 will be in theaters June 29, 2014.

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