Michael Bay Says Steven Spielberg Told Him to Stop Making TRANSFORMERS Movies

Steven Spielberg is a fantastic director and producer who has been directly involved with a ton of great films. He has an eye for making movies with great stories, and he knows when a story should continue into sequel territory, or be left as is. Apparently, he tried to share that knowledge with director Michael Bay when Spielberg produced on his Transformers movies, and Bay knows he should have listened.

In a recent interview with Unilad UK, while promoting his upcoming action movie, Ambulance, Bay talked about his Transformers films, saying:

"I made too many of them. 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."

The 2007 original from Paramount Pictures and Spielberg's DreamWorks was "scary," Bay said, explaining, "It was technology we didn't know would work, and then it became very successful. It was the first time digital effects were that highly reflective, so it broke a lot of new ground," Bay said of the state-of-the-art CGI bringing to life the Autobots and Decepticons. "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."

Bay started with the trilogy Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and went on to make Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight. Travis Knight went on to take over direction on the prequel Bumblebee, executive produced by Bay, and Paramount Pictures is moving forward with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, from director Steven Caple Jr., set to open in theaters on June 9, 2023. 

via: CB