Bay: LA Times Article

Michael Bay was interviewed for an LA Times article that was helping to advertise Transformers by doing a retrospective on Bay's movie career (ie hey you liked ? see Transformers!). Sadly to read the article requires a subscription but TFormers.com was kind enough to provide a summary including a new movie image.

One thing of note though is the article does use the previous image of Optimus Prime without faceplate pretty much confirming that the "battle" for the faceplate has already been decided. We all knew that due for multiple reasons the least of which the faceplates are part of several Transformer designs and represent a battle-mode. The other is the expense in designing and implementing the face plate and not face plate look and not to use it would be a tremendous waste of money.

Anyway, back to the article. He is satisfied with the final product as it does represent his vision of the Transformers "as not a toy movie but as a live-action spectacle loaded with visual effects." Producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura said the movie has huge action scenes but "I think people will be surprised by the movie. There is a spectacular amount of heart and humor in it."

Click here to read the full article courtesy of Michael Bay's blog.