Michael Bay has revealed that not only is the latest Transformers: Revenge of the FallenSuper Bowl trailer just the start of things to come, but it alsodoesn’t spoil the movie nearly enough. “Just wait until they see thenext one,” he tells us exclusively, “we are going to show so manyrobots you won’t believe how many robots there are!”
Quite excited at the prospect of having a bunch of robots in his filmThe Bay revealed that the rest of the trailers leading up to the filmshould give away the majority of the plot, but he will be holding backon showing most of the explosions.
“A movie isn’t an actual movie unless things are blowing upand I blow them up with the best of them,” The Bay said. “Sure, you canhave emotional moments and we have those with Megan and Shia, but whenit comes down to it no one goes to a movie for the actual story as muchas they go to see robots and things explode and we got that! Iam the only director to have a direct line to the Pentagon. ThePentagon. Pentagon. You think Martin Scorsese can just call thePentagon? Pentagon?”
When asked about the possibility of Constructicons showing up in thefilm I lost some steam because I didn’t know what they were and had notyet watched the Super Bowl trailer, but he did say, “It’s all bull.....I am just toyingwith the fanboys.” He emphasized “toying” as if to pass a mocking nudgeat how the toys from the film have created such an online stir. “Didyou see all the articles about the Soundwave toy? Pentagon. So funny,my robots ain’t toys, they will kill you!”
I concluded the brief conversation asking Bay if fanboy assumptionswere correct and Megatron was going to show up in the film afterinstead of destroying the Decepticon leader at the end of the firstfilm they decided to dump him into the ocean. The Bay laughed andsimply said, “ME-GA-TRON! Hey, that sounds like Pentagon, I wonder ifthe Pentagon is a robot too.”
The next trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be shown in front of screenings of Friday the 13th in theaters beginning February 13 and will then hit the Internet a week later.
