'Transformers 4' may arrive in 2014
'Transformers 4' may not feature franchise star Shia LaBeouf, who says he's out.
'Transformers 4' may arrive in 2014, which would be the longest gap between two films in the franchise yet.
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Ever since 聽made a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, it鈥檚 been a no-brainer that Paramount would be returning to the well for . However, beyond the knowledge that Transformers 4 was coming, everything else has been rumor, including whether or not would be returning to the director鈥檚 chair, and/or who will be starring in the film if franchise staple Shia LaBeouf is out (which he claims he is).
While we鈥檙e still waiting to hear what Transformers 4聽will entail, today we at least have a much more solid idea of when聽the fourth chapter may be coming. Read on for details.
Coming Soon has it that Paramount is looking at a 2014 release date for Transformers 4. This would presumably be a summer 2014 release date, as the previous three installments were all released in the June or July blocks. A 2014 release date is of little surprise, since Paramount and Hasbro 鈥� the toy company that first launched the Transformers brand 鈥� are clearly working from a 鈥�strike while the iron is hot鈥� mentality, as evidenced by the rapid-fire release dates of the Transformers movie trilogy to date:
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If anything, it鈥檚 surprising that the studio is allowing an extra year of breathing room before cranking out this fourth film. Whether that time is being allotted in order to allow Bay to finish work on some of the 鈥渟maller films鈥� he鈥檚 been itching to work on (see: )聽is probably going to be a point of much speculation 鈥� but it could just as easily be a case of the TF3鈥榮 continued success delaying the start of work on TF4, or the studio having a crowded summer 2013 schedule already in place. Of course, these points are not mutually exclusive, and it could be any combination of them that has TF4聽on course for 2014.
Now that a deadline has been set, we can expect to see the ball get rolling on the film fairly soon. So, questions like 鈥業s Bay coming back?鈥� 鈥�?鈥� 鈥業s really going to star?鈥� 鈥榃ill it take place somewhere other than Earth?鈥� etc., will start to get answered sooner, rather than later.
Ben Kendrick blogs at Screen Rant.