Michael Bay
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Nov 2, 2026
Craig McKenzieHOST
It's funny, that was another franchise The Rock was looking to own, but it never happened.
Craig McKenzieHOST
All right, for our last item, we're going to go back in time to the year 2007 because Paramount has enlisted Steven Spielberg to produce the next Transformers movie and none other than Michael Bay as an early talks to direct.
Craig McKenzieHOST
What do you think of that? That we're going back to this, this 2007 pairing on this franchise.
Angus BallantineHOST
Cue the Linkin Park, what I've done credits.
Craig McKenzieHOST
That was the first Mark Wahlberg one.
Angus BallantineHOST
Oh, yeah.
Angus BallantineHOST
Michael Bay, he's back.
Angus BallantineHOST
I don't even know what Michael Bay's been up to since then.
LevHOST
Once popular culture knew that the 80s sold, it started digging up everything it could find from that decade and wheeling it back out like the patriarch of the Sawyer family in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
LevHOST
In July 2007, Michael Bay's Transformers came out.
LevHOST
based on a line of Hasbro toys that had been launched in the mid-80s with a cartoon that existed mainly to sell those toys.
LevHOST
The producers had originally been planning a G.I. Joe film, but after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Hasbro suggested they do the robots instead, presumably on the basis that a film about the American military blowing things up in the Middle East might land a little bit different that year.
OliverHOST
And they made the remake.
OliverHOST
It's Michael Bay's production company.
OliverHOST
Oh!
TaylorHOST
Transformers fame.
TaylorHOST
Why did, for some goddamn reason, that put things into some great clarity? Well, you see Jessica
OliverHOST
Biel as the main character in the remake, how she's dressed, and you're like, oh yeah, that seems like a Michael Bay
ShannonHOST
thing.
ShannonHOST
Yeah, I was about to say, that makes more
Andre JosephHOST
when he was just a music video director who just got his first job and now they're giving him shit.
Marcos CosmeHOST
Can you imagine if this was Michael Bay? Boy, Jesus would have done to them.
Marcos CosmeHOST
He couldn't do anything because he was unknown back then.
Marcos CosmeHOST
No, no, no.
Marcos CosmeHOST
But can you imagine if it was Michael Bay? No, no, no.
Marcos CosmeHOST
He'd be like, where's the guns? Yeah.
Marcos CosmeHOST
What do you mean? Only $60 million.
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
All we care about is the text ability, which is when this ship is destroyed, destroy all ships destroyed.
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
in this system, the ultimate defense is to the Michael Bay cinematics.
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
Yes.
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
Blow up everything.
Midnight MikeHOST
Okay, let's see what I can do.
Midnight MikeHOST
Michael Bay does not approve.
Midnight MikeHOST
All right, here we
Brent SpinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
go.
DaveHOST
As he comes out of the flaming building for the end of the previous movie.
DaveHOST
What was going through your mind? This was almost like, did Michael Bay step in to direct this scene? Michael Myers
NickPANELIST
turns into John Wick.
DaveHOST
yes
BruceHOST
All right, Hunter.
BruceHOST
All right, so mine's going to be Michael Bay.
BruceHOST
So you also, everyone's taking directors first.
HohnerHOST
Oh, yeah, sure.
BruceHOST
Michael Bay, all right, getting some bad boys on here.
BruceHOST
And Transformers.
BruceHOST
Yeah, okay, okay.
HohnerHOST
That was one of them.
Katie WilsonGUEST
Okay.
Katie WilsonGUEST
And there's a part in the commentary on the DVD where Ben Affleck's talking about how he got into fights with Michael Bay about this.
Katie WilsonGUEST
He's like, this is so illogical.
Katie WilsonGUEST
Like, none of this makes any sense.
Katie WilsonGUEST
And Michael Bay's like, shut up.
Katie WilsonGUEST
People will buy it.
Katie WilsonGUEST
They do.
Diego CrespoHOST
And I think it looks good.
Diego CrespoHOST
It's like that was the Michael Bay produced Platinum Dunes like style, like at the apex of it.
Diego CrespoHOST
And so like, frankly, like I thought Nightmare on Elm Street, like a remake has had a good shot back then.
Diego CrespoHOST
And then you see that movie, and not only does it fail to, like, capitalize on everything that makes those original movies work, especially the first one, like, it really solidifies that Wes Craven was kind of a genius.
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