The latest Transformers installment is getting a familiar face — well, behind the camera.
In a new profile with Rolling Stone, Michael Bay confirmed that he will be back to direct Transformers 5.
"I'm doing Transformers ... 5, is it?" Bay says in the interview. "J.J. [Abrams] told me, 'You're the only guy that could do this.' But it's time to move on. One more."
While many might be pleased that Bay is returning to the movie franchise, the director was reportedly displeased with one of the new Transformers that will be featured in the film.
Rolling Stone was in Bay's office in Santa Monica when he took a video call with visual effects supervisors over at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) when they showed him "an underwater rendering of a crash-landed alien spaceship, then a new dump-truck Transformer with a cloak." Bay was said to be displeased with the looks of what he saw.
However, before speaking about Transformers 5, Bay spoke to Pablo Helman, a visual-effects supervisor who worked on the Star Wars prequels and the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel. The conversation confirmed that Krang, a villain featured in the animated series, will make his big screen debut in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
Krang can best be described as the villain that is a disembodied brain with tentacles that lives inside of a robot body. In the call, Helman reveled that they removed the tentacles, asking Bay, "is it too monster-ish?"
"He could have some tentacles," says Bay. "I just don't want them coming out of the side. He looks like a stupid octopus."
Krang will join the other baddies in the film, Bebob and Rocksteady, both of whom are featured in the film's first trailer.
Transformers 5 is set to be released in the summer of 2017. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is slated for June 3, 2016.
Source: Rolling Stone
