Transformers: Michael Bay Claims 14 Movie Ideas - Collider Movie Talk

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (April 6th, 2017) Perri Nemiroff, Mark Ellis, Mark Reilly, Natasha Martinez and Wendy Lee discuss the following:

1) Michael Bay reveals 14 stories for Transformers at studio; wants to direct a spin-off

2) Call of Duty shared universe in development at Activision

3) Opening This Week

4) Christian Bale in talks to play Dick Cheney in biopic directed by Adam McKay

5) Dune reboot hires Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth

6) Demian Bichir to star in Conjuring spinoff The Nun

7) Mail Bag

8) Live Twitter Questions

With Paramount set to release Transformers The Last Knight in just a few short months, the movie will mark the last time franchise director Michael Bay helms a movie in the series; something he confirmed while speaking to Rolling Stone over a year ago. Now it seems, he’s had a change of heart. Speaking to MTV at this past week’s Cinema Con in Las Vegas, Bay revealed that Paramount has 14 separate Transformers’ ideas, including a spin-off he’d be interested in directing.

It was back in November of 2015 where it was first revealed that Activision Blizzard were making plans for a movie based on the video game series Call of Duty. Now, in an interview with The Guardian, co-presidents of Activision Blizzard Studios Stacey Sher and Nick van Dyk, opened up about their plans for the franchise, reiterating that the first film could arrive as early as 2018 and teasing it as the first movie in a shared universe a la the MCU.

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Variety is reporting that Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Amy Adams are in early talks to star in the Dick Cheney biopic that has Adam McKay attached to direct. The Paramount project is the follow-up to Adam McKay’s The Big Short, his Oscar-nominated movie about the housing market collapse in the mid-2000s. This new movie will tackle the controversial Cheney who acted as vice president under President George W. Bush during some of the most tumultuous times in American history. Bale is in talks to portray Cheney while Carell is up for the role of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Adams would play Cheney’s wife, Lynne Cheney. The filmmaker’s plan is to shoot in September with a release targeted for late 2018.

According to a report from Variety, Legendary Pictures has tapped veteran scribe and Forrest Gump screenwriter Eric Roth to write the Dune reboot that will be directed by Arrival’s Denis Villeneuve. Legendary closed a deal with the Frank Herbert estate last Thanksgiving for his iconic novel, granting the studio the rights to not only a film franchise but also TV projects that can be spun-off from the movies. The movie is heading into active development with a release date yet to be determined.

THR is reporting that Oscar-nominated actor Demian Bichir will star in The Nun, the latest horror movie spin-off based in the universe of The Conjuring. Corin Hardy is directing the movie, which is based on the demon nun character from The Conjuring 2. Bichir will play a priest named Father Burke who is dispatched by Rome to investigate the mysterious death of a nun. The Nun begins shooting this summer in with a release date set for July 13, 2018.

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