“Transformers 4” Confirmed for June 2014

Though it can't possibly come as too much of a shock, Paramount and Michael Bay have confirmed that a fourth “Transformers” film will be made – and will hit theaters worldwide in the summer of 2014. 

When Bay put out “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” last year, he made it a point of saying that this would be his third and last installment in the insanely successful franchise. 

Of course, very few actually believed him: no one walks away from such a money-making venture just like that. 

Now, producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura, who worked with Bay before, is telling MTV News that he's on board for the fourth “Transformers” film though it might not be a sequel to the previous three, but more of a reboot.

“Michael’s going to direct it, and it’ll be in the summer of 2014. We’ll be releasing it [then]… I think the challenge there is we really are going to do a reboot there, and what that’s going to be we don’t even know yet,” the producer says. 

Because they don't have a story yet, DiBonaventura doesn't even want to consider talking about the possibility of having the old cast return for the old parts. 

This makes sense: given that leading man Shia LaBeouf has already said he's done with the franchise, chances are a new film will tell the story at another point in Sam's life with, of course, another actor. 

Michael Bay has also confirmed the happy news on his official website, saying he has a new deal with Paramount for two films: “Pain and Gain” and “Transformers.”

“To clarify uninformed reports coming out of Toy Fair - Steven Spielberg and I are working on a whole new re imagining of Transformers, the fourth installment. We have been working on the idea for a few months,” Bay writes. 

However, he'll do “Pain and Gain” first, a passion project for Bay, on which he's been working for years. 

It stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and will start shooting very soon.

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