MOVIE NEWS – In the middle of the 2000s, Steven Spielberg himself asked Michael Bay to direct the first Transformers movie. The production, which was released in cinemas in 2007, was, as expected, a great success and developed into a franchise: Bay directed four more films with the shape-shifting robots in the main role. Then he no longer made the 2018 prequel Spaceman, nor the soon-to-be-released Transformers: Age of Beasts.

ScreenRant gathered what’s behind it. The most important reason is pretty obvious: Bay is fed up with the franchise. Compared to the fact that at the time he did not even want to comply with the honorable invitation, he directed five big-budget Transformers films in ten years, because the Paramount studio insisted on his person. Spielberg promised that he would only make one trilogy, so Bay wanted to leave after the third and fourth productions to pursue his own projects, but the honorarium offered by the studio proved too attractive. The third and fourth Transformers productions lived up to expectations by grossing over one billion dollars. However, the fifth, Transformers: The Last Knight, was not a great success, so it became the last project in the series for Bay. Paramount set a new direction for the franchise: targeting a younger audience, it came out with a prequel, and Úrdongó did not disappoint. According to the critics, the fact that there are fewer explosions and spectacular military action in the film – which is Bay’s trademark – which is a trademark of Bay’s, may also have played a role in the film’s success, and more emphasis was placed on the portrayal of characters, even in the case of the robots.

Transformers: Age of Beasts is also a prequel film, its plot takes place ten years before the story of the first production written by Bay.

(Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – domestic release: June 8, 2023.)