According toTransformersproducer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, one thing is to blame for Michael Bay’s most maligned sequels.

Ive had this happen to me a few times.

The problem is you dont get to evolve your script.

Transformers, Optimus Prime, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox

I think a strike doesnt affect the bigger ideas or the visuals.

Whats hard is the characterisations, the emotional relationships.

Thats where it takes a lot of writing.

Megan Fox in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

But I had friends who had younger brothers and sisters who watched it avidly."

He really got the fascination of something that can transform.

What was interesting about the process was that Paramount passed on it, I think, five times.

Transformers & G.I. Joe’s Movie Crossover Explained

But I kept coming back.

I understood how capable the visual effects were of creating something astonishing.

And when we saw our first movie preview, we knew we were gonna have a sequel.

Transformers One Just Broke a Disappointing Box Office Record

Was the Writers' Strike to Blame for Revenge of the Fallen?

But was it all the writers' strike’s fault forRevenge of the Fallen’s failures?

The writers' strike was coming hard and fast.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Sets Record-Breaking Low Box Office for Franchise

At the time, this felt like a justifiable excuse.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallencan be streamed now onParamount+.

LATEST NEWS

![Marvel Studios Reveals Every Official ‘New Avenger’ Going To Avengers: Doomsday](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/the_new_avengers_teams.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Marvel Studios Announces 2 Historic Supervillains In Phase 6](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/marvel-phase-supervillains.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![2025 Superman Movie Will Now Give Clark Kent His Own Enemy (Confirmed)](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/superman-clark-kent.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Marvel Studios Releases Its First-Ever Venom Symbiote Funko Pop](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/venom-funko.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Andor Season 2 Just Brought Back 5 Key ‘Rogue One’ Characters (Photos)](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/andor-rogues.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Max Announces DC’s Next Superhero Show Releasing Before Peacemaker Season 2](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/dc-peacemaker.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Amazon Prime Video Announces Sequel to Its Biggest Movie Ever](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/prime-vide-movie.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Marvel Studios Confirms Historic Setting for Phase 6’s First Movie](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/marvel-studios-phase-settings.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Marvel Shares First Look at Robert Downey Jr. (Doctor Doom) On Avengers: Doomsday Set (Photos)](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/robert_downey_jr_doctor_doom_haircut.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)

![Thunderbolts: Why Taskmaster Got [Spoilers], Explained by Marvel Director](https://images.thedirect.com/media/article_thumbnail/taskmaster-why.jpg?imgeng=/w_auto,280 280w)