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Michael Bay Interview, Transformers

MoviesOnline sat down with director Michael Bay at the Los Angeles press day for his new film, Transformers. The film's Executive Producer Steven Spielberg is a longtime aficionado of science fiction, "The reason I love science fiction so much is because it's the only genre that allows you unlimited access to your imagination." For that reason, Spielberg took a special interest in "Transformers" and called director Michael Bay while he was putting the finishing touches on "The Island," to ask him to helm the film."I was not a Transformers fan before I signed on to this movie. I think I was two years older when the toys came out, so I just discovered girls then instead of Optimus Prime. But I quickly became after I went to Hasbro. Have you heard about that Transformers school? I really thought, 'What the fuck am I going to Hasbro for Transformers school?' I thought I was going to learn how to fold up robots, but I met with the CEO and I went through the whole Transformer lore. I've been offered a lot of superhero movies before and nothing's really appealed to me and in the room, because I've been such a fan of Japanese Anime it just hit me that if I make this really real, it could be something very new and different. So I quickly became probably one of the bigger Transformer fans in the world, and I tried to make this movie for non-Transformer fans, okay, and I wanted it to be a little bit more, if you could say, adult, so I'm sure I'm going to get flack for - you made an edgy movie on a toy, how is that going to affect kids? I know there are Transformer fans that are 40 years old."More...