Director Michael Bay on the set of TRANSFORMERS(2007).
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Update: Bay Back on TRANSFORMERS 2

Update: I'm providing an update to yesterday's story of Michael Bay rejecting TRANSFORMERS 2 news. As I wrote in the original article's comments and hinted inside the article, a retraction was on the way from Bay. He was angry yesterday(leading all news sites to speculate) that Paramount & Dreamworks decided to drop Blu-Ray for future movies and sign an exclusive deal with HD-DVD. He wrote a post out on his official forums sayingn as much including a bit about not doing the sequel. When I checked his forums, I noticed he deleted it so I wrote the first article saying as much. Bay has done this kind of thing before...Writing an angry blog on his official site and when news sites jumped on it, he took the blog post off as quickly as he could.

Anyway, here's what Bay wrote in a new post today retracting his stance on not doing TRANSFORMERS 2.

Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three Blu-Ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-Ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.

As a director, I'm all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.

So today I saw 300 on HD-DVD, it rocks!

So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!

Michael Bay

Basically, it comes down to what we were discussing yesterday. Bay's just like everyone else on the net, he can over react on occasions and write out an angry blog or post when he wants to...especially in the early AM hours.