{"id":18774,"date":"2012-02-14T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=18774"},"modified":"2014-10-04T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:50:21","slug":"michael-bay-confirms-he-will-direct-transformers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/14\/michael-bay-confirms-he-will-direct-transformers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bay Confirms He Will Direct TRANSFORMERS 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MichaelBay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"274\" \/>Depending on whether you were happy or sad when Michael Bay announced that <strong>Transformers 3<\/strong> was going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/08\/what%E2%80%99s-next-for-the-transformers-franchise\/\" target=\"_blank\">his last installment<\/a> of the giant-robots-punching-each-other franchise, you will probably be either sad or happy to hear that that is now not the case. It should come as no surprise, though. Rumors were swirling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/07\/is-michael-bay-in-talks-for-transformers-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">late last year<\/a> that the studio was looking to bring the director back for a fourth film, even though everyone denied it at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The director confirmed on his official site that he has signed on with Paramount Pictures to do a fourth film.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There has been a lot of speculation about what I&#8217;m going to do next and when or if I will do another <strong>Transformers<\/strong>. So let me set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p>I have just concluded a deal with Paramount to do two movies, but it won&#8217;t be two <strong>Transformers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I will first do &#8216;<strong>Pain &amp; Gain<\/strong>&#8216; with Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Then I will do the next <strong>Transformers<\/strong> for release on June 29, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>-Michael Bay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, <strong>Transformers 4<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t have a script or a cast, but it has a release date. That always bodes well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Get set for a fourth film in the franchise!<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/14\/michael-bay-confirms-he-will-direct-transformers-4\/\" title=\"Michael Bay Confirms He Will Direct TRANSFORMERS 4\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1739,4412],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-michael-bay","8":"tag-transformers-4"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18774"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=18774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}