Transformers 4: Lies of the Liars Has a Release Date

?Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told MTV that Michael Bay will indeed be returning for the fourth Transformers movie, which will be released in 2014. He also confirmed the following:

“I think we really are going to do a reboot there.
[But] what that’s going to be, we don’t even know yet…. We’ve got to get
a story first. It’s a hybrid because there’s still continuity going on,
and there will be a lot of new cast. Whether there’s
anybody from the first cast, we don’t even know yet. But it’s going to
be a whole new story. But the characters that would certainly come along
would be Optimus and Bumblebee, I’m sure.”

So it’s a Transformers reboot that keeps the Transformers themselves but only switches out the humans? While a Transformers movie without Sam’s parents would be a small mercy, I feel they’re rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic in that regard. I mean, Optimus ripped Megatron’s fucking head off in the last picture; a real reboot would mean he could be the villain again, as opposed to whatever contrived way they’ll need to figure out to bring him back in a non-reboot (maybe the Matrix of Leadership, in addition to controlling the planet-destroying machine, also regrows heads. Leadership!). Still, my favorite part of all of this little nightmare is that di Bonaventura actually said, “We’ve got to get
a story first.” I can only imagine the look of puzzled disdain that crossed Michael Bay’s face when he heard that. “What? Those words are English, but they make no sense in that order.”