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Rumors Galore!! Michael Bay May Actually Use Mark Wahlberg For TRANSFORMERS 4?!
The Kidd here...
Well, we already know Shia LaBeouf isn't returning for the continuation of the TRANSFORMERS franchise, nor are a ton of familiar robots in disguise (because only new characters sell new toys), but did anyone really expect Mark Wahlberg to be at the center of the human portion of TRANSFORMERS 4 until now?
Apparently rumors have been picking up fairly recently that Wahlberg would be the star of the sequel, based entirely on the fact that Wahlberg and director Michael Bay worked together on PAIN & GAIN, and, as you know, when an actor and a director work together once, they never want to work on other projects moving forward with anyone else ever again (Cue the sarcasm).
In fact, these rumors built up so greatly that Michael Bay took time out of his day of doing whatever the hell Michael Bay does to debunk the rumors and let people know that there's no Mark Wahlberg involvement in TRANSFORMERS 4.
Or is there?
According to Bay's latest post on his own blog, the rumors got him to thinking, and now maybe there is some room for Marky Mark in the middle of a war between Autobots and Decepticons.
"I squashed a rumor that was on the internet last week. It was about Mark Walhberg. Mark was rumored to be staring in Transformers 4. We are working on another movie together, not T4. I had such a great time working with Mark on Pain and Gain, and he gave such a great performance – well let’s say that very internet chatter gave me some ideas. We are at the inception of our story process right now on T4. Let’s say some ideas are gaining traction with me and my writer – so I’m here to say thanks internet chatter."
Do I think it's cool that the talk of fans may have gotten them something they wanted in a movie? Absolutely. Am I a little sad that we wasted such an opportunity to have one of our wishes granted on TRANSFORMERS 4? You bet.
I guess we'll have to see how things come together on this, but I'm not sure a Mark Wahlberg is needed for a TRANSFORMERS movie. After all, why can't we just have a TRANSFORMERS flick populated entirely by Transformers?
By the way, what do you think Michael Bay does on a daily basis? My money is on dreams of explosions.
-Billy Donnelly
"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"
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Ladies
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:13 p.m. CST
Hi there, Optimus Prime, how's it goin'? Say hi to your mother for me.
by Bobo_Vision
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Can he squeeze out another hit???
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
How about letting the stars of the Transformers movie be... well, maybe the Transformers?!?
by Acappellaman
I get the need for human leads in a movie like Battleship or Othello, or some other franchise that doesn't have speaking characters, but we don't have that problem with Transformers. Let the freaking robots themselves be the main characters! Come on! That alone would escalate the movies beyond what we've seen so far.
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Like I give two fucks up a cat's ass...
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:28 p.m. CST
But, you know, the Transformers ride at Universal Studios is pretty fun.
by Danny Boil
All robots, no humans, actions, splosions, just a few minutes long. That's about all the Transformers I can stand.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
Are any of you also seeing the ad for Roadkill tshirts on the right there?
by Danny Boil
With that awesome chick on her back in the "I Used To Care..." shirt? God, I want to make her my wife so fucking hard.
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he needs this line or something similar
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:37 p.m. CST
Usually during the day, the Bay will put his finger up a puppies butt. Then light a baby seal on fire.
by kindofabigdeal
Sometimes he will sniff a Victoria Secret model's butt, but only if he has some Viagara left over from his raping of cinema. On the weekends he will lay awake, just to hear you breathing.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:37 p.m. CST
can internet chatter convince him to call it Trans4mers? cuz thats the only way I'm seeing it
by Stephen
psych I'll see it i dont give a shit
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:38 p.m. CST
I think their won't be that many new bot's, but they will all get a makeover.
by kindofabigdeal
I mean, how old is that Camaro that Bumblebee is? New car license deals had to be made.
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Didn't you learn anything from Planet of the Apes?
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they have all those hot ass 10s modeling those fuck the world I'm a nerd shirts and you start thinking those shirts are great until you realize the only people who buy them are the greasy 11th grade boys.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:53 p.m. CST
The only way I'll care to watch this thing is if Marky Mark reprises his AWESOME cover of "The Touch" from "Boogie Nights"
by rk349097
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAAbbuEpnw
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Nov. 7, 2012, 3:58 p.m. CST
-- "What do you think Michael Bay does on a daily basis?"
by MooseMalloy
The exact opposite of whatever an internet movie blogger does.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 4:17 p.m. CST
rk349097: Good call on the old school TF animated movie and Marky's cover.
by kindofabigdeal
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...he has not been great in anything. Ever. Can Hollywood please quit miscasting him in everything? Please? Ugh....
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Nov. 7, 2012, 4:32 p.m. CST
I always wanted a long tracking shot of a Twilek in her panties.
by kindofabigdeal
I also want a slow motion pod race explosion. Two bounty hunters standing side by side in front of a fake Miami sign.
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But yeah Mark Wahlberg is not a great actor
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you motherfucker. And did you know Bad Boys II has never EVER been released on blu-ray, or announced, or anything! What's up with THAT, M. Bay? What is UP, with THAT !
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Nov. 7, 2012, 5:05 p.m. CST
What if we genetically engineered M Bay with M Night Shymalongmadingdong? Imagine the possiblities.
by kindofabigdeal
Now I've created a cinematic universe far worse than ours in all of your heads.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 5:06 p.m. CST
I agree with you once more, Kidd. Bay definitely daydreams of how much more exploding CG he can put onscreen
by Kremzeek
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a lot of rumors come out of Hollywood. Matt Vaughn might direct Star Wars 7. Harrison Ford might be Indy/Han again. Armie Hammer might get to be Batman. Scorsese wants to direct Hyperion. DiCaprio producing Akira. Rumors. But any rumor involving Bay, or a Wahlberg Transformers, seriously WTF I don't give two shits. Probably a stunt anyway.
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Why would he start having a story in those clusterfuck movies now?
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Nov. 7, 2012, 5:42 p.m. CST
Fans got something we want? No, they want it to not suck like the last film.
by LordSoth
Really. They just keep getting worse.
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you know...some guys don't act like idiots around women and only jump around like idiots when they are on speed.
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Who remembers "Flames on Optimus" posts or Don Murphy, or Don Murphy "fans", or TINO, Bayformers. Talkbackers like superninja and Yackbacker. Discussions like psudo patriotic overtones in the meaing of Prims' paint job. Ahhh great times.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 6:17 p.m. CST
So that would be a crap actor in a crap movie by a crap director?
by Raptor Jesus
Crappy crappy crappy. (10 points - what movie is that from).
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...putting on lipstick and maintaining his 'To Kill' list. Megan Fox and Hugo Weaving are currently at the top of that list.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 6:22 p.m. CST
WAIT: Bay actually considers a STORY for the transformers movies?
by D o o d
or is this the first time he's going to attempt it?
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Nov. 7, 2012, 6:54 p.m. CST
If you say anything bad about Wahlberg, you go to hell when you die.
by Mysterious_Volvo
FACT
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Nov. 7, 2012, 7:56 p.m. CST
The money is in the toys, not the movies. It costs NOTHING to make these toys.
by btc909
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Nov. 7, 2012, 7:57 p.m. CST
Wally was ok in Ted but it was obvious funnier / cheaper actors are available.
by btc909
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... they should make a movie version of the Fall of Cybertron video game. The robots and graphics looked outstanding in there. And if they had the full G1 cast going, it would be great. Also, they're bummed out over toy sales? I thumbed through the toy store the other day and didn't see any that I liked other than the new Bumblebee from the Prime series. I haven't been sold on the overall aesthetics and designs. But what does my opinion matter? I don't buy toys anymore, I grew out of that over a decade ago.
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He's destroyed that franchise enough already! Please move along and kill something else already. Heard he was working on TMNT? Watch him fuck that up good :/
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And Hell is watching Max Payne, The Happening and his turd performances (that you could pick 10 actors who would do a better job than him in ANY role he's ever done) for eternity....
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OPTIMUS PRIME IS THE LEAD CHARACTER. NOT SOME HUMAN WHO IS COMPLETELY USELESS. OPTIMUS FUCKING PRIME. Doing a transformers series but having it be about a human is like doing an X-Men movie about Charles Xavier's non-mutant neighbors. it would be like spending $200,000,000 on a Perry White, Newspaperman movie. First one: A mute bumblebee's on Earth but not Optimus. Second One: Optimus is dead for 70% of the time. Third one: All the autobots are hiding under space shuttle for most of the film. THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT, BAY.
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Nov. 7, 2012, 9:25 p.m. CST
WAHLBERG would be perfect hope they keep all the tranformers....
by KHjLL
Just keep adding transformors to the curent ones... Can't wait for T4...
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Nov. 7, 2012, 10:12 p.m. CST
After all, why can't we just have a TRANSFORMERS flick populated entirely by Transformers?
by Simon
Mostly because it'd appeal exclusively to 12 year olds or people who happened to be 12 when the cartoon was on. Humans are the in for people who don't know what an autobot is and/or don't necessarily give a fuck. Why this is so difficult to understand for people I have no idea, it's such an utterly basic storytelling technique.
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I don't care if hes in it or not. It's going to be shit anyway with Bay at the helm. I understand the movie at having real human actor roles in it. And im a devout TF fan! A CGI laden film with no real people is a pixar-type film. I just wish Micheal 'fuckin' Bay would do the franchise some justice by adhering to some of the original story that Marvel comics and the cartoon set out! Optimus is so out of character shouting out stuff like "Give me your face!", "We'll kill them all!' and allowing the enemies to kill so many humans before the autobots striked back in DOTM?! All the movies have so many plot-holes you could drive a truck through it!
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Nov. 8, 2012, 2:47 a.m. CST
At least Bay does personal movies inbetween Transformers movies...
by spicy-mag.com
..oh wait. No he doesn't.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Nov. 8, 2012, 5:53 a.m. CST
When it comes to acting, Mark Wahlberg is more robotic than robots from outer space that pretend to be cars.
by buggerbugger
He'll be the least human element in the entire film. The CG will have more warmth. This can only be seen as a step in the right direction, as it will allow audiences to empathise more with CG vehicles and CG buildings and CG explosions of CG vehicles crashing into CG buildings.
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Cause everything Bay does is BIG!
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Said ideas seem to be attributed to "internet chatter" but it is highly likely that Wahlberg pitched some ideas to carve out a role for himself.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 8:53 a.m. CST
From the internet... A comic wherein Michael Bay is LITERALLY the Devil. Enjoy.
by TheMachinist
http://multiplexcomic.com/strip/691
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this is awesome. Mark Wahlberg is an excellent starer. i loved that M Night Shamalan movie where he stared at trees. that Scorsese movie where he stared at Matt Damon. the PotA remake when he stared at Helena Bonham Carter's monkey face. and of course, his career-defining role in Boogie Nights, when he stood in front of a mirror and stared at his own rubber johnson. that shows that he can work well in an sfx-heavy environment as well, perfect preparation for a Transformers film. if you want to hire an actor who can stare in a convincing fashion, who can really make the audience believe that he is truly looking at whatever it is he's staring at, then Mark Wahlberg is your man.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 10:27 a.m. CST
Fuck The Entire Transformers Series and Fuck Michael Bay!!!!
by ass clown
Anyone that likes these movies needs to have their balls electrocuted because the Transformers series is first rate garbage.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 10:28 a.m. CST
I wouldn't care about a Transformers movie by Michael Bay if it was staring President Obama! I still wouldn't want to see Bay's garbage
by Wcwlkr
I mean I loathe with an unbridled passion every so called Transformers movie that Bay has done. I say so-called because I refuse to sully the name Transformers by associating it with that garbage. I'm with the kid what's wrong with just a damn Transformers movie where Robots fight other robots!
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Nov. 8, 2012, 12:49 p.m. CST
The only news i want to know about Michael Bay, my most detested filmmaker alive is: when will he fuck off once and for all?
by albert comin
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Nov. 8, 2012, 12:52 p.m. CST
Marky Mark in Transformers 4: a comatose emotionally stunted lead surrounded by stupid over-the-top mayhem.
by albert comin
Stirring cinema, i tell you! Who can resist that?
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Nov. 8, 2012, 12:56 p.m. CST
Marky Mark in Transformers 4: a comatose emotionally stunted lead surrounded by stupid idiotic over-the-top mayhem.
by albert comin
Stirring cinema, isn't it? Who can resist that?
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Nov. 8, 2012, 12:57 p.m. CST
Dear Michael Bay, please go fuck yourself. Yours truly, Scirocco. PS: Fuck off and never come back.
by albert comin
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He toplines A-list pictures for the studios, then at the same time makes Straight-to-vid B-stuff for wrestling fans. This is not the kind of shit he is good in thou. He should pass for his own sake.
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seriously, i thought it was a foregone conclusion that a new director was going to a part of the reboot. THE INTERNET HAS LIED TO ME!
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Unless you go with full on animation or video-game level CG, can you imagine what it would cost to render every single frame of a movie in the HD resoultion necesary for a photorealistic environment inhabited by sentient robots? The production costs alone would likely exceed $300M. Plus, a 'star' and a 'relationship' story usually assure some female attendees. I'd love to see an all robot TF movie too, but it's gonna be a LONG time before the economies of scale make it financially feasible.
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DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY
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Nov. 9, 2012, 8:53 a.m. CST
I know it's very wrong to wish physical harm on a filmmaker just because he's an incompetent untalented idiot who only makes bad movies.
by albert comin
But i'm tempted to open an exception on Michael Bay.
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Somehow, i don't think that females who are obsessed with romance in movies would still be too open to the idea of watching a movie where so much of the screentime is devoted to robots. The romance junkie females want to watch romanc ein movies where the whole movie is about the romance. So, i find that logic to be quite faulty. I'm npt saying it's yours, you might just be repeating something said by some clueless executive. The fact is, today, many girls have similiar tastes to boys, as in, many girls are open to the idea of watching a movie about robots where they are the protagonists, and not some pair of love-struck teen fucks. I think many executives and filmmakers have their mentalities still stuck in the 80s.
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