New updates for Transformers 5 have been revealed and it looks like an ew director will helm the movie.
According to reports from Indie Wire, Transformers director Michael Bay may consider the leaving the franchise for good saying that “there’s a lot that’s unexplored, but that’s for the next director to figure out”.
USA Today conducted an Interview with Bay on the possible future for the Transfomers movie as Bay believes he will pass the baton for future Transformer movies to a new director while he turns his focus elsewhere.
There's kind of a new chapter, a new direction in movies I want to make," says Bay, who is eyeing a passion project, a documentary on elephant poaching. "I have a lot of stories to tell. And it's about flexing new muscles."
Indie Wire further reported that the likely candidate to replace Bay would be his protege and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles director Jonathan Liebesman.
In other news, there are rumors that Transformers 5 will have two Transformer factions from the "Beast" Era and a new Autobot Leader to replace Optimus Prime.
According to reports from KpopStarz, the National Report wrote an article about Michael Bay hinting that he will do the fifth movie and will "kill off" Optimus Prime replacing Rodimus Prime as the Autobots leader in the movie.
"Title: Michael Bay On Transformers 5: "Optimus Dies, Rodimus Rules."
"Pressed for more details Bay revealed this:"Optimus Prime has served his time. He is old news. He dies heroically in battle, but it is time for leadership to be passed on to a new generation. We will be introducing a new Autobot known as Hot Rod. He is young and hip and sometimes doesn't think things through, just like Bumblebee. But he will have to learn how to lead what remains of the Autobots against Galvatron and his army of Decepticons."'
"Shocked by the huge scoop that I had just received, I pressed a little further. In the latest movie, It is hinted that Optimus Prime left Earth to find his maker's. Does he find them before he dies?
"Oh yeah, of course. That's where the movie starts. Prime makes it to the creators known as the Quintessons. They are less than pleased to see him and well I can't give you the whole movie. But that is where he meets Hot Rod who later becomes Rodimus Prime."
While the website claimed that this was a hoax, Rodimus Prime is also rumored to be part of the film along with Vector Prime, Unicron, and the Quintessons.
As for the two new factions, several fans have speculated that their might be a Beast Wars plot somewhere in the movie franchise and Comic Central City reports that the Beast Wars spin-off is being planned after Transformers 5. So we will likely see the Maximals and Predacons on the big screen very soon.
According to reports from Entertainment Weekly, Bay explained the possibilities of the new Transformers trilogy.
"It's kind of like a new Transformers. We had three, the first trilogy, and this is going to be the next one... I'm not necessarily sure that I'm doing [the others], but that's what it's meant for."
Transformers 5 is scheduled to be released on 2016.
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