Steven Spielberg will lead the creative direction of the next live-action Transformers film, the franchise’s eighth. Michael Bay is in early talks to return as director, a role he held on the series’ first films.Spielberg will remain an executive producer and work alongside longtime franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The two are expected to help guide the new production and preserve the spirit of the early films. Mark Vahradian, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Hasbro are also producing.Jason Fuchs wrote the screenplay. Plot details are under wraps, but the story will be set in the present day. The project is still in early development, and no cast details are available.Spielberg played a similar creative role on the first two films, which launched the franchise. The series has earned more than US$ 5,4 billion at the worldwide box office since the original film premiered in 2007, helping turn Hasbro’s toy brand into a global phenomenon.Bay left the franchise after Transformers: The Last Knight, released in 2017. Since then, Bumblebee and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts have hit theaters, but, according to the assessment in the source text, they have not matched the performance of the earlier films.Spielberg’s involvement in the project moved forward after he read the latest version of Fuchs’ screenplay. The filmmakers then began discussing who would direct the film and approached Bay. He read the script and met with Spielberg this week; after those steps, he showed interest in returning.Talks about Bay returning as director are still at an early stage, and no cast announcement or plot details have been released. The film remains in development at Paramount Pictures and Hasbro.
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