Before Michael Bay makes another Transformers movie — and despite the director’s claims to the contrary, it really looks like he will make another one — Bay is going to make a ‘smaller’ film called Pain and Gain. The film is being financed by Paramount, likely as part of an incentive deal to get Bay to make Transformers 4, and it is a crime story he’s been wanting to do for a while. Since late last year it has had Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as a possible lead.
Now it looks like the Rock is set. He’ll have company, too, as Ed Harris is reportedly signing on. (Insert joke about The Rock vets Bay and Harris re-teaming with The Rock here.) Read More »
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Over the weekend I got the chance to sit down and talk with Captain America: The First Avenger screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus and talk about the process of collaborating with Marvel, adapting Captain America to the big screen, the importance of the period story, the absence of Hitler, having Joss Whedon come in and polish their screenplay, working on Captain America 2 and if plot threads will be continued/concluded in The Avengers or the sequel, working with Michael Bay on Pain & Gain which they call “Michael Bay’s Fargo“, and much more. Hit the jump to read the interview.
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Posted on Thursday, June 30th, 2011 by Angie Han
If there’s one thing Michael Bay is known for, its his love of blowing things up in the loudest, shiniest, most spectacular ways imaginable. So it may come as a bit of a surprise that Bay’s planned follow-up to his huge Transformers franchise will be a small, Pulp Fiction-esque picture titled Pain & Gain, with an estimated budget of just $20 million. Then again, maybe it’s not such a shocker — even Bay’s gotta take a break from giant fighting alien robots sometime, right? More details on the project after the jump.
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Michael Bay has given an update on his developing upcoming projects on his official website. Bay says that he will be meeting later this week with producer Steven Spielberg, and screenwriter Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for Transformers 3. By the end of the week he will probably have a better idea if a third film will hit theaters in the summer of 2011 or 2012.
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Last week Michael Bay said that he has a small Pulp Fiction-type of movie before returning for Transformers 3. Guess what? We received a tip over to the weekend revealing everything. Want to know what Bay’s small movie project will be about? Full details after the jump.
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