Michael Bay says that the fourth instalment of the Transformers franchise is not a re-boot.
Despite talk that Bay would not return to direct another movie in the series he is back and while there will be a new cast for the film it will build on the previous three movies but take the story in a 'new direction'.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times that director said: "It's not a reboot. That's maybe the wrong word.
"I don't want to say 'reboot' because then people will think we're doing a Spider-Man and starting from the beginning. We're not.
"We're taking the story that you've seen - the story we've told in three movies already - and we're taking it in a new direction.
"But we're leaving those three as the history. It all still counts... We're moving on to something different."
Transformers: Dark of the Moon was released last summer and it was the biggest success of the franchise to date as it grossed over $1 billion at the global box office.
But before we see Bay in the director's chair for this project he has just completed work on Pain and Gain and there is talk of a third Bad Boys movie in the pipeline.
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