Michael Bay Makes 'Transformers 2' Promises, Plus New On-Set Pics

During Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards, director Michael Bay announced that Transformers 2 would begin filming the very next day. Now, last week, when it was revealed that all the major players were coming back and the only significant cast change was the addition of Rainn Wilson, we thought that was a very good sign. And now, Michael Bay gives us even more reason to be cautiously optimistic - yeah, I know: Michael Bay. Who knew? He tells MTV that Transformers 2 will be its own entity and not simply a way to make money before the story resolves in a threequel. "You know how those sequels they do the second one so you go see the third one? [Transformers 2] is it, Bay insists. "First one was just introducing, setting up stuff, so we can go a lot farther. Let’s just say [this] is not a lame sequel.” Of course, Bay is extremely familiar with lame sequels; he directed Bad Boys 2. But does he mean that Transformers 2 is the last movie in the franchise? "[Transformers 2] is it," could mean the end of the road, and in fact, in the context of his statement, I don't know what else it could mean. But I doubt this is the last movie in the series. Call it a hunch. The one thing about Bay's update that doesn't float my boat is how many robots will reportedly be fighting at the end of the film: Over 20. The worst thing about Transformers was the final conflict. Too hard to follow, lasted too long, and was just a giant effects wankfest. Hard to see how that'll be toned down in the sequel if they're adding robots. If you want to see a bunch of new photos from the set of 2ransformers, head over to TFW 2005. Here's a couple we like, just to get you in the mood.

Comments

[Orinn]

Wow the bottom shot looks good

[Get The Big Picture]

Now just imagine it with with too many robots fighting in the foreground.

[Kevin]

I don't mean to brag, but I will...I live a town away from this shoot and I was standing pretty much exactly from that vantage point a few nights ago. It was difficult to see much aside from those helicopters and green neon chinese lettering all over the place. I did see some other helicopters with chinese letters on them (can be seen at my blog). I was hoping to see some explosions but the shoots were planned to go from 4 pm-7 am Mon-Wed. and apparently Bay waited until very late Wednesday (Early Thursday) to set things off.