Michael Bay speaks up on Transformers

While there has been no official word yet on who will helm the big screen adaptation of the classic cartoon series IGN FilmForce did manage to get some dialogue going with one of the top choices, the master of disaster Michael Bay.

Bay says it wasn't so much the show that appealed to him, but more the prospect of starting a new family film franchise. "I'm not necessarily a fan of the show, but I love the writer's take on this. I love the whole changing up of the machines. The hook the writers have, I'm really into. I've always wanted to do kind of a big family movie, a franchise piece, so that's why I'm interested in it."

IGN also caught up with the writing team Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who wrote Bay's most recent project The Island, "In terms of Transformers, it's the same approach. How do you do giant robots and care? We used to joke that we were calling it Campbell's Soup: The Movie because it was the ultimate product placement. You know, just put the toy up there and what are you gonna do? So we've been very diligent to find what the character story is. How they relate to the story, how they relate to the humans, so it's not just a toy commercial. So I think it's going well."

So Bay admitting that he was not a fan of the show is a real confidence booster [sarcasm]. But is it alright that he have an objective viewpoint when entering this project? Do you want a fan-boy behind the camera? He's bought into the vision of the writers, which is good, because it sounds like they're purposeful on injecting some real humanity into the script. So it may not be all lasers and explosions but also some sit-down time with dad to talk about girls and baseball.

via IGNFilmForce through Cinematical.