BAY RETURNS TO DIRECT TRANSFORMERS - /co/ (#149176697) [Archived: 1021 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:51:32 AM No.149176697
BAY BACK
BAY BACK
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Bayformers is BACK
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:52:39 AM No.149176703
>>149176697 (OP)
According to Jeff Sneider the film is a reboot, Josh Cooley is also working on a live action TF film, TF vs GIJoe is cancelled.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:54:17 AM No.149176713
>>149176703
Gonna need a source for that chief
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:56:14 AM No.149176722
>>149176697 (OP)
>>149176703
According to leakers (Belloni and Sneider) we get:
>an animated Skybound adaptation is in the works at Paramount
>a live action Bay reboot movie
>a live action Josh Cooley movie
>RotB, TLK and One are not getting sequels, TF vs GIJoe is cancelled.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:57:15 AM No.149176734
>>149176713
Jeff Sneider said in his podcast, official news should break this weekend, but Matt Belloni is also a veteran and he has info.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:01:26 AM No.149176770
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>>149176697 (OP)
Source:
https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-hbos-comp-shake-up-peacocks-mini-purge-top-10-vanities/

Seems Paramount loses the rights if they don't get a new movie out by 2029.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:20:21 AM No.149176883
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So we got:
>Three Michael Bay movies in his old style
>Two Michael Bay movies in his new, CGI heavy, even more batshit incoherent style
>One heartfelt movie with really good action and designs
>One movie that clumsily tries to copy his SECOND style, not the first one, and ends up delivering a mediocre product, but more consistent that the Bay movies
>An animated movie with terrible marketing but supposedly very good (the only one I haven't seen)

And now we're stuck with him again. Fuck my life.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:29:07 AM No.149176942
>>149176697 (OP)
We were past this. It was over. This can't be happening.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:45:35 AM No.149177030
>>149176697 (OP)
BAYsed. I love Bay and his Transformers, he's one of the role models of my childhood.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:19:13 AM No.149177142
>>149176883
>(the only one I haven't seen)
You should, and you're right, the marketing was abysmal. It's pretty much unanimous opinion that the movie's trailers are what caused it to fail. They totally dropped the ball in representing what the movie was like.
Now, don't go into it thinking it's a PERFECT movie, it has a minor pacing issue. But it's still great.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:26:48 AM No.149177167
>>149176883
>>An animated movie with terrible marketing but supposedly very good (the only one I haven't seen)
It's mediocre.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:28:39 AM No.149177178
>>149176883
>One heartfelt movie with really good action and designs
Bumblebee was mid, fanboy. Quit eating shit just because it looks kind of like G1.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:32:50 AM No.149177205
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>>149177178
If you don't think it has the best fight choreography in the Paramount franchise, the most satisfying story and the most likeable cast, we're not going to agree in anything.

I'm not even a genwuuner, Animated, Aligned and IDW mostly.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:34:23 AM No.149177211
>>149176697 (OP)
WE WON, BAYGODS
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:37:45 AM No.149177222
>>149177205
Im surprised lugnut never showed up in any of the bayfilms. His whole shtick is causing massive explosions after all.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:43:16 AM No.149177243
>>149177178
>Bumblebee was mid
It's the best of all the live-actions movies so far. I'd say it's even better than One.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:47:46 AM No.149177263
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>>149177167
This anon is Slit, don't believe his insecure lies.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:54:30 AM No.149177284
bayformers bros... were back!!!!
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 12:03:34 PM No.149177314
>>149176942
*you* were, but the world isn't
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 12:08:09 PM No.149177330
>>149176697 (OP)
I want ultra magnus in with the good guys,he and prime blowing shit up together has major kino potential
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 12:09:44 PM No.149177337
What are they gonna make bumblebee into if chevrolet doesnt make camaros now ?
Corvette doesnt fit him,especially mid engine one.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 12:18:57 PM No.149177381
>>149177205
>IDW
Figures.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:01:25 PM No.149178347
>>149176697 (OP)
Onefags lost hard, Bayverse has been restored baby
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:03:38 PM No.149178365
>>149177263
Nah I'm with him. ONE was overrated beyond belief.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:18:52 PM No.149178510
Rotf poster
Rotf poster
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Sorry 80โ€™s nostalgia bros but youโ€™ve had your time. Now is the age of 2000โ€™s nostalgia.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:19:55 PM No.149178519
>>149176697 (OP)
LINCOLN PARK IN THE END CREDITS PLEASE
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:20:06 PM No.149178520
>>149176697 (OP)
LETS GO BAY-BEE!
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:22:14 PM No.149178545
>>149178510
SO GIVE ME A REASON! TO PROVE ME WRONG! TO WASH THIS MEMORY CLEAN!
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:24:14 PM No.149178562
>>149178510
Even as a kid I thought RotF sucked ass. I was super disappointed with it considering I was obsessed with the forst one.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:26:47 PM No.149178584
>>149176697 (OP)
His last Transformers movies were awful but Ambulance was legitimately kino so idk how to feel about this
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:29:46 PM No.149178616
>>149177178
Even if you took out the Cybertron sequence itโ€™s the only movie with a likable human cast
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:34:20 PM No.149178659
I've heard that Bay wanted to direct this one because of a script he read, and the last time that happened was in 2005
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:42:04 PM No.149178726
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>I won bitch
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:44:39 PM No.149178746
I liked Rist of the Beasts...
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:05:26 PM No.149178934
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>>149176883
I think Transformer movies are forever cursed to never have good quality filmmaking cause anytime someone actually competent enough comes in to direct or try to deliver a quality product. It either suffers from Bayverse stigma, or internal sabotage from within.
It's about to get worse especially in this age of post irony world where people watch bad films intentionally.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:07:45 PM No.149179426
Bay's best movies are when he's not attached to an IP.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:15:14 PM No.149179480
>>149176883
One was pretty good. Bumblebee was bad but it makes up for it with its portrayal of Megatron.
The marketing was indeed dogshit.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:27:06 PM No.149179582
>>149176883
It looked like they finally course corrected a bit with Bumblebee, and then... here we are. Wtf.

Can't have nice things.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:07:41 PM No.149179997
>>149176722
how does the two live action films work? like is there any info if theyre connected?
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:09:27 PM No.149180015
>>149176697 (OP)
Jesus fucking Christ let it die already
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:11:17 PM No.149180038
>>149177178
The designs in Bumblebee are inherently superior to those of Bayformers because they actually bother adhering to some classic mecha design tropes to ensure readability in motion. Turns out that making everyone jaggy grey blobs wasn't working out.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:12:38 PM No.149180053
>>149178510
Where the FUCK did the 90s nostalgia go?
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:24:12 PM No.149180178
>>149177178
Itโ€™s literally the only live action TF movie where the robots are characters instead of props for the action.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:24:35 PM No.149180181
>>149177178
Bumblebee was far from a perfect movie but compared to the incoherent noise, excessive greebles, and US military wanking it was a hell of a better Transformers movie than any of the Bayslop.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:25:54 PM No.149180193
>>149176697 (OP)
Every single one of these movies has been crap.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:29:02 PM No.149180233
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>>149176697 (OP)
Fucking why? Bumblebee was the perfect fucking jumping point for the movies but they kept second guessing themselves and trying to make it more Bay-like which led to the shitty Beast Wars sequel.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:31:11 PM No.149180265
>>149176697 (OP)
Anybody excited by this believes Bay can pull the OG trilogy again when he ruined his own franchise and has made nothing but slop since he left. No Bayformers fan has seen any other Bay film outside of maybe his two Bad Boys and Pain & Gain. But they will still believe this freak can replicate something of ages ago.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:32:04 PM No.149180270
>>149177211
>Bad Boys 5 will be directed by the new team

No, we lost.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:48:51 PM No.149180432
>>149180265
Exactly. Dude almost killed the Transformers franchise in the first place with his awful Age of Extinction and The Last Knight and that was almost a decade ago, dude has only become worse with time and hasn't even been able to make memorably bad movies, just forgettable mediocre ones. He's become little more than a meme coasting on infamy from years ago.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:56:27 PM No.149180517
>>149180233
- because the producer LITERALLY does not understand what a reboot is and kept trying to connect Beeverse to Bayverse
- because, understandably, audiences were wary to see Bumblebee after the shitshows of AoE and TLK, so it made less money. Executives don't understand that there can be an inherent one-movie lag time in franchise reputation when something is changed, because people need to actually SEE the differences before they can let it affect how they attend the NEXT movie. The execs immediately overcorrected in reaction to the low numbers instead of making another Bumblebee-style good movie that people could recognize as another Bumblebee-style good movie, and instead defaulted to a Bay-style slopfest.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:59:24 PM No.149180568
>>149180517
Another example of exec impatience: ONE isn't getting a sequel, because the first one didn't do well. It didn't do well because of terrible trailers, not because it's a bad movie. Everyone NOW knows that the trailers were bad and the movie was good, but execs only see "bad money because bad movie"
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:02:01 PM No.149180610
>>149180517
>>149180568
>liked BB
>calls Baykinos "slop"
lol
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:02:26 PM No.149180617
>>149180568
Also they are keeping Josh Cooley for another live action movie. Meaning they do know people love the movie and that director is worth keeping, but donโ€™t want to make a sequel to One. Instead they are making more confusing live action slop with shaky continuity that will keep underperforming due to lack of audience interest in this world
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:03:27 PM No.149180633
>>149180270
3 and 4 did fine without him
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:05:24 PM No.149180664
>>149180610
anon, your reading comprehension needs some work
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:08:15 PM No.149180703
>>149180610
It's true though, Bumblebee was extremely straightforward as a movie while Bayshit is a bunch of convoluted bullshit. It's almost like Bay can't comprehend you can have action that is easy to read and a story that isn't complete nonsense. Only the first movie has anything approaching a positive reception and that's because it has the least amount of bullshit in it even if it still had its fair share of problems. He's batting 1/5 at this point.
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6/27/2025, 7:14:41 PM No.149180803
>>149176697 (OP)
I love Michael bay
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:15:59 PM No.149180817
>>149176697 (OP)
This sucks.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:05:01 PM No.149181543
>>149176697 (OP)
This rules.