Michael Bay Attached To New Adventure Film At Paramount
Pain and Gainaside,Michael Bayhas been in the world ofTransformersfor eight years now. Eight years. That’s almost a decade removed from the Michael Bay of old. Long gone are the days of the high-concept Michael Bay action films likeBad Boys, The Rock or Armageddon. EvenThe Island, Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys IIare a distant memory. Yet that memory may once again become a reality in in the coming years. Paramount Pictures just picked up an untitled adventure film pitch, written byTom WheelerandRobbie Thompson.It is being developed by Platinum Dunes with an eye on Bay directing.The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news of the deal. Details on the plot are few and far between, but they describe it as “a real science adventure thriller with an undersea component.” A Michael BayAbyss? Hell. Yes.
Wheeler and Thompson are primarily TV writers, having worked together on NBC’sThe Cape. Wheeler did write thePuss in Bootsfilm, and Thompson is currently a writer on the hit seriesSupernatural. All of that is just a nice way to say their past credits in no way give us an idea of what to expect here. Bay’s interest in the film as a directing vehicle is way more telling. It suggests there’s a simple hook with huge action potential.
Michael Bay’s future afterTransformers: Age of Extinctionis wide open. Rumor has ithe wants to tinker withthe delayed Platinum Dunes filmWelcome to Yesterday;Bad Boys IIIisalways a film they’re talkingabout; and his former producer Jerry Bruckheimer is now back at Paramount. Who knows what could happen if those titans decided to team up once again? Now there’s this film, too. A “real science adventure thriller with an undersea component” directed by Michael Bay sounds like something we can get behind for sure.
What do you want to see Bay do next?
