Filmmaker Michael Bay has done fifteen films in all, five of which were “Transformers” movies that were shot over an eleven-year span.
Five years and now two movies removed from the last of those films, Bay has spoken with Unilad (via Indiewire) recently and admits he should’ve stopped making them at a certain point.
In fact, he says even franchise executive producer Steven Spielberg told him he should stop after the third movie “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” in 2011:
“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.”
What finally stopped things was 2017’s “Transformers: The Last Knight,” the fifth film hit a franchise low of $605 million worldwide after being delivered at a cost of up to $250 million.
Paramount then semi-rebooted the franchise, releasing the more cost-effective “Bumblebee” directed by Travis Knight and are currently in post-production on the $200 million budgeted “Transformers: Rise of the Beast” directed by Steven Caple Jr.
Bay is back in cinemas on April 8th with the action-thriller “Ambulance”.
