By Robbie 
Graham 

Transformers 
4 
is headed for the final frontier, according to director Michael Bay. When asked 
by The Los Angeles Times recently 
if the new story will involve a departure from Earth, Bay replied: “I 
think so, yeah, a little... That feels like the way to go, doesn’t it? I want to 
go a little 
off [Earth] but I don’t want to go too sci-fi. I still want 
to keep it grounded. That’s what works in these movies, that’s what makes it 
accessible.”  
Exactly, because if the Transformers franchise goes too far 
off-planet then it might stretch credulity. It could even risk tarnishing the gritty 
documentary realism Bay worked so hard to create in the first three movies. The 
otherwise sober notion of giant transforming alien robots might even start to 
seem... silly?  
Bay 
told the LA Times that his next Transformers movie (which will be 
his last) will not be a reboot, as rumours had suggested, but will nevertheless 
veer off in new directions and feature a new cast. Some of the 
Transformers themselves will also be redesigned (allowing for a new line of 
Hasbro toys).  
“It’s not a reboot, 
that’s maybe the wrong word,” Bay said. “I don’t want to say reboot because then 
people will think we’re doing a Spider-Man and starting from the beginning. 
We’re not. We’re taking the story that you’ve seen — the story we’ve told in 
three movies already — and we’re taking it in a new direction. But we’re leaving 
those three as the history. It all still counts.”
Transformers 4 is currently without a script. It does have a release date, though: 29 
June, 2014.
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