Michael Bay, the director of five “Transformers” movies and numerous ads for Victoria’s Secret, would like you to know that he’s also a very creative person. The filmmaker, who can frame the shit out of both American flags and explosions and sometimes both at the same time, isn’t just a guy who knows where to put the camera, but he conjures imaginary realms and worlds. Well, at least according to himself, as the director explains why Marvel and DC Films are something he wouldn’t be down with doing.
“I wouldn’t want to, it’s not my thing, it’s just not my gig,” Bay told press this summer on the set of “Transformers: The Last Knight” (via Collider). “I don’t ever wanna take someone like a third of something or second of something. I gotta do my own thing, ’cause the most fun is when a real director creates the world. You know, you talk to Ridley Scott, one our favorite things to do is to create the world. Steven Spielberg, create the world. That is what it’s about.”
Okay, it’s a fair point — Bay probably doesn’t want to step into a cinematic universe where many of the creative choices have already been predetermined. But let’s not pretend “Transfomers” is breaking the boundaries of imaginary. Those movies are basically our world, just with robots running wild all over them, and Bay choreographing one big action sequence after another. There’s no reason why he couldn’t take a standlone-ish DC Film, for example, and still direct it in his distinctly Bayhem-ian manner. And frankly, perhaps that would be kinda cool, and a nice change of pace, because we’ve seen what he can do with Autobots and Decepticons seventeen different ways.
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