So much for that promised Age of Extinction.
Forces in Hollywood are plotting four “Transformers” movies, Hasbro Studios president Steven Davis announced, promising the multiplex will be filled with giant battling robots for at least the next ten years.
“You’re going to see a new “Transformers”movie coming from Hasbro and Paramount and Michael Bay and our other partners,” Davis told the crowd at Saturday’s Mipcom.
“So stay tuned, ‘Transformers 5’ is on its way,” said Davis, pausing before adding, “and 6 and 7 and 8.”
There is plenty of financial incentive to keep the well-oiled box office machine going: the first four “Transformers” movies, chronicling the battle between the Autobots and the nefarious Decepticons, grossed $3.8 billion worldwide at the box office.
For Paramount, it’s also a franchise that can compete financially and in Comic Con clout with the big super hero properties of rivals Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers.
Critics and many disgruntled fans, though, felt there wasn’t much more than meets the eye to those first four Michael Bay-directed movies. It’s unclear whether either Bay would return behind the camera or Mark Wahlberg, star of last year’s “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” would return in front of it.
Bay has previously said he would not return to direct for a fifth installment.
