Although the franchise began to lose momentum as the saga progressed, it cannot be denied that Bay took the Transformers story to the next level, making the Cyberverse one of the most profitable despite the high cost of its production.
Although Michael Bay served as the producer of ‘Bumblebee’, it seems that it was a bad idea to leave the direction of the film to someone else, since the vision of Travis Knight failed to convince the public, this new installment of ‘Transformers’ became the film with the least revenue of the entire saga, despite having had very good ratings by specialized critics.
Ironically, the five films directed by Micahel Bay managed to raise more than four billion dollars at the box office, however, the criticism they received was mostly negative, in their latest production, ‘The Last Knight’, its box office dramatically dropped, compared to past installments, however, it still outperformed ‘Bumblebee’.
For this reason, Michael Bay wants to return to the franchise, according to media sources, Michael Bay has contacted Paraumont to express his desire to return to the saga and direct the third installment of ‘Bumblebee’, however, no response from the studio has been confirmed.
Currently, Paramount has a lot of projects around these characters in the works, it is planning the sequel to ‘Bumblebee’, an adaptation of ‘Beast Wars’ that will take place outside the continuity of the Michael Bay films and a new animated movie that Josh Cooley will be in charge of, director of ‘Toy Story 4’.
This is how Michael Bay might direct ‘Bumblebee 3’, it’s true that his films did not get good ratings, yet they still managed to raise a lot of money and the studio seems to like the director’s style, it is likely that soon we’ll see the Baysplosions and Bayformers back in the franchise.
