Transformers 3 talk already?
Paramount and Dream Works have gone ahead and announced Transformers 3 will have a release date of July 11, 2011. This is the first anyone is hearing of a sequel when the sequel of the first one isn’t even out yet. Paramount insiders have downplayed the importance of the movie. The studio apparently wanted to pick a date before the rivals did due to the summer of 2011 already slated for some very big releases. No deals have been made with director Michael Bay, or the stars of the series Shia Lebouf or Megan Fox, and no writer is attached to the project. Summer 2011 will see the fourth Spider- Man film in May, Thor, and Captain America.
Are Paramount and Dream Works thinking too far ahead? Transformers 2 has not even hit the silver screen yet and already there is talk of a third. It isn’t like the film is slated to make “Dark Knight” dollars which would be one thing. Many other planned sequels ended up never happening (Batman: Triumphant was a planned sequel to the Trail of Tears of film called Batman & Robin and Billy Zane was signed on for two more Phantom movies before the first one bombed). Paramount and Dream Works should not think so far ahead and focus on the movie coming out this year Transformers 2 and market it then make plans for 3.
