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Michael Bay Is Pushing Transformers 2 AheadBy Rafe Telsch: 2008-02-28 19:17:53
It appears that news that Michael Bay prepped Transformers 2 during the writer’s strike may have been slightly exaggerated. The director currently has three writers (Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci) in what he calls “Michael Bay jail,” holed up in a beautiful hotel suite, banging out the script for the sequel based on a detailed outline the trio did prior to the writer’s strike.
Three writers? What’s the rush that is causing Bay to bring in three people to scribe the movie he allegedly had written during the strike? Haven’t you heard – there’s another strike on the way. Negotiations with the writers and directors may have been resolved, but there’s still that pesky Screen Actors’ Guild to deal with. Make no mistake about it, Bay wants to move forward on Transformers 2, which is why the movie is moving ahead despite the potential actor’s strike, which has halted other movies like Steven Spielberg’s Trial of the Chicago Seven. While Bay is concerned about the possibility of a strike taking away cast members, he’s not going to let it stop the process. Bay told Variety, ”If there is a strike, we shut down, but shutting down isn't that big a deal. You make accommodations, you make a deal with vending houses on equipment and on the stages where you are shooting. You hope for the best, but you can't be incapacitated by the possibility that there will be a strike. We've got to get this town back to work.” Frankly, those words are easier for someone like Bay to deliver than someone like Spielberg. Trial would be an actor driven piece full of drama and Oscar-worthy performances. Transformers is Transformers. I enjoyed the first movie quite a bit, but it wasn’t exactly dependent on its actors. If SAG decides to strike, Bay can always go oversee the thirty-second shot of Optimus Prime crushing something beneath his enormous feet and not being at all stealthy. I guess that’s the benefit of having special effects drive a movie – if the actors aren’t there, there’s still something to work on.
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