Transformers 3 to Have Less Action

Transformers 3 to Have Less Action

Michael Bay reveals some plans for Transformers 3 and how he wants to approach it.

By Batmanknight - Nov 03, 2009 07:11 PM EST
Source: worstpreviews.com

One of the issues people had with Transformers 2 was that it had too much action and not enough story. Well it looks like the production group took our feelings to heart and now plans to approach Transformers 3 with more story and less confusing big robot action scenes are underway.

In the Transformers 2 special feature "The All Spark Experiment," director Michael Bay talks about some of his ideas for Transformers 3. Here is what he said:

"It can't get bigger, we have to figure out to go sideways and I'm wondering where to start. What I'm doing is having Hasbro send me tons of lore and stuff like that, things that we can draw from, and I just have to let it simmer. Definitely more has to be made of Bumblebee in the third one, that's a relationship you want to explore more. And I think we're definitely going to get more into the robot characters.

This movie got very big, very grand, we've covered a lot of ground. The third one doesn't have to be as big, we could go darker. It definitely has to be more emotional, it not going to be just about action, action, action. And that's where I think T3 might potentially go, where things are more undercover and not as exposed."

If this truly ends up happening I think Transformers 3 could be better than the second one and possibly even the first one.

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antz1104
antz1104 - 11/3/2009, 7:13 PM
He says "T3" and I'm thinking "didn't they already make that pile of monkey flop?" Then the hamster starts turning the squeky wheel in my head. He definately needs to throw in the dinobots and leave out the "jive talkin'" autobots from the 2nd one.
CaptainCanada
CaptainCanada - 11/3/2009, 7:35 PM
hopfully he sticks to that
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 11/3/2009, 7:35 PM
First was cool. Second was cool (opinionated, obviously), and hopefully the third Will B. Good. But the idea of less action seems a bit ridiculous. The action and comedy are the only things that seems to keep these films up. And recently, everybody is hating the comedy.

Batmanknight
Batmanknight - 11/3/2009, 7:40 PM
I think it would be cool if the next one took place more in space or have Dino bots. Just to have something different than the usual fight with Megatron.
antz1104
antz1104 - 11/3/2009, 8:00 PM
Maybe Grimlock challenges Optimus for control of the autobots? Sam (Spike) gets put in the cobbled together body of an autobot and flips? (First one serious, 2nd not so much despite I loved that ep.)
Phinehas
Phinehas - 11/3/2009, 8:17 PM
Nobody thinks the action was weak from Bay's films! This guy needs to sit back and think about this. It was the story and editing which was the problem in the last two films. The character development was weak and shallow concerning all the robots. Removing action, will only further reveal how pointless his movies really are! Big mistake.

"What I'm doing is having Hasbro send me tons of lore and stuff like that, things that we can draw from, and I just have to let it simmer."

Where was all that...YESTERDAY????

flames809
flames809 - 11/3/2009, 8:25 PM
the first movie was great the second one was goood
loganoneil
loganoneil - 11/3/2009, 9:08 PM
More plot, less action?! WTF! Is Michael Bay even capable of that?!! As long as he kills off that vacuum-headed ditz Fox, I MIGHT go and see the next one!
ThisFan
ThisFan - 11/3/2009, 9:57 PM
get a better writter
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 11/3/2009, 10:13 PM
Was he suddenly visited by the ghosts of movie makers past?
Bay, "I will start anew,I will make amendsand I will make quite certain that the story ends on a note of hope,on a strong amen, and I'll thank the world and remember when I was able to begin again!"

big cbm no prize to anyone who can place that quote.
ClintEastwood
ClintEastwood - 11/3/2009, 10:26 PM
Just have Megan Fox naked with a background of explosions, it'll make money.
Wadey09
Wadey09 - 11/3/2009, 11:08 PM
watch this be like him lying to us again.
i recall him saying that a certain decepticon wasn't coming back to life and now look at megatron.
also....
think about when this interview was filmed.
i think he was just basically spitballing and as of right then almost had no idea what the sequel would be about.
and has anyone ever seen a michael bay sequel? the day that he doesn't try to make his next movie bigger is the day that dragonball evolution becomes a cult classic.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 11/3/2009, 11:37 PM
I wouldn't be surprised wadey
Spilox
Spilox - 11/4/2009, 12:29 AM
Not bumblebee again! Take out the [frick]ed up twins, bring back a rejuvinated jetfire, less focuss on megan fox, more on her tits, bring in the dinobots!
BLACKWINGS17
BLACKWINGS17 - 11/4/2009, 8:52 AM
Less action? What the hell?

The action was the best thing about Transformers 2, and it was even better than the action in Transformers 1. Optimus Prime wasn't such a pussy, and the other Transformers had some sweet highlights. The story was the problem, so fix the d--- story and don't touch the action.
bullsize
bullsize - 11/4/2009, 9:05 AM
why??
why bay is trying the odd path.Trans 2 was centuries better than "made for oscar,boring gay stuff".
Action defines hollywood,if i really wished to watch ponderous movies when i'm fed up of my life,i'll be preferring iranian crap.
Actio,Explosion n more action wanted.
fcuk critics,it made $ 832 mill ww,what more u want.

stories???? does he mean the shitty human sidestories....hell no..
mobile1ph
mobile1ph - 11/4/2009, 9:28 AM
Throw in the Dinobots, Superion or Omega Supreme! And lets finally show Cybertron!
sadmamba
sadmamba - 11/4/2009, 9:36 AM
WHAT?!?!??!! no more KABOOM, KAPOW, KABRZZKK???!?!?!

boring..
lvlheaded
lvlheaded - 11/4/2009, 9:54 AM
just prequel it and take out all humans. do the whole movie from cybertron. and NO megan fox looking transformer, i know he was thinking it.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 11/4/2009, 10:11 AM
mmm. The action was the only thing stopping me from walking out of that last tard fest. And he wants LESS of it? Maybe if he focuses more on the actual Transformers like he says then it could work..just keep the mentally challenged human characters away from it!
droopy1317
droopy1317 - 11/4/2009, 10:25 AM
true, action was the only good thing from the second one. just put less humorless jokes and more character development
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 11/4/2009, 10:47 AM
I can't believe people are complaining about adding plot to transformers.
cincyboy
cincyboy - 11/4/2009, 10:57 AM
scrooge from the Broadway musical! No prize for me!
Runefyst
Runefyst - 11/4/2009, 11:12 AM
Hmmmmmm.....more focus on the robots? I like that part of it. More plot & character development could be really awesome.

Also I'd love to see the Dinobots, namely, Grimlock.........but........I also wanted to see Devastator......and he had.....big....metal....balls....*sniffle*
SHHH
SHHH - 11/4/2009, 11:26 AM
Hope he don't mean more sam and his annoying ass room-mate, or agent Simmons. MOre cybertron
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 11/4/2009, 11:54 AM
cincyboy good job lol

thatiscrazy
thatiscrazy - 11/4/2009, 1:02 PM
Im down for more story even though Im an action fan. But the story needs to be about the relationships that the robots have with each other, not with sam. Add more auto bots im tired of Prime being the only bot with lines, seems like a cop-out. Hell they dont even have to put people in the movie for all I care.

There is a lot of great oprotunities to do some great stuff here(character wise) but sadly it will be a movie about bumble bee and sam. F@#$ Bumble Bee and F@#$ Sam.

Bring back Jazz, Give us Dinobots, and the rest of the main autobots and give them ALL MORE SPEAKING PARTS
slimybug
slimybug - 11/4/2009, 1:49 PM
What a load. They're just going to fill it with more cock jokes and ass jokes. Especially now that Orci and Kurtzman got tired of having their good ideas raped, so now, instead of any talent, we just have Mr. Kruger.

And for the record, you can get bigger, just get rid of all the patriotic military propaganda crap. The problem wasn't too much action, it was too much of that crap filling it up, as well as all the idiotic low-brow "humor" filling it up, so what enjoyable action there is is spread thinly throughout a swampland myriad of that crap.

I'd love to see a TF movie that did away with all that crap and focused on a Transformers story with good characters and good action.

But that's just not going to happen.
slimybug
slimybug - 11/4/2009, 1:49 PM
What a load. They're just going to fill it with more cock jokes and ass jokes. Especially now that Orci and Kurtzman got tired of having their good ideas raped, so now, instead of any talent, we just have Mr. Kruger.

And for the record, you can get bigger, just get rid of all the patriotic military propaganda crap. The problem wasn't too much action, it was too much of that crap filling it up, as well as all the idiotic low-brow "humor" filling it up, so what enjoyable action there is is spread thinly throughout a swampland myriad of that crap.

I'd love to see a TF movie that did away with all that crap and focused on a Transformers story with good characters and good action.

But that's just not going to happen.
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 11/4/2009, 2:38 PM
Best news I've heard in awhile.
JerusalemJr
JerusalemJr - 11/4/2009, 2:54 PM
That would be nice, Transformers: Cybertron. They could make a movie of how they got in the crappy situation that they are in by having to come to earth. Then on the plus side, none of the human characters would be in the movie.
Instantclassic
Instantclassic - 11/4/2009, 2:57 PM
First one was cool with the arrival of both the autobots and decepticons and how there little story went. The 2nd one had way to much action and little story, I especially wanted more out of Devastator and More of a fight between Optimus and The Fallen. But I hope to see a way better story in the 3rd movie. I still want to see action, but i want a better story, hands down
THEHAWK
THEHAWK - 11/4/2009, 3:38 PM
Michael Bay has said he will be cutting back the action and effects in favor of an actual story? Has Hell frozen over?

But seriously though. You wouldn't have to cut back on the action to still ahve a great story. I think I know what my next Fan-Fic will be!

I have an idea for an amazing Transformers 3 that will keep the same action as well as up the story. And it can be done with them keeping the annoying human characters as well.
thegamedrex
thegamedrex - 11/4/2009, 7:06 PM
DID ANYONE SEE THE TRANSFORMERS ON CARTOON NETWORK WHICH THAT CARTOON TAKES PLACE IN OF ALL PLACES DETROIT MICHIGAN IN THE FUTURE, AND THE AUTOBOTS ARE NOT RUTHLESS SOLDIERS THEIR REPAIR BOTS WHO ARE BARELY HOLDING THEIR OWN AND GETTING LUCKY AGAINST MEGATRON. I HATE THIS SHOW!
JUST BE GLAD MICHEAL BAYS MOVIES DID NOT START LIKE THIS FOR TRANSFORMERS
dragonquest67
dragonquest67 - 11/4/2009, 7:38 PM
story better be good

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