The Transformers director Michael Bay did an interview with Collide recently, talking about the previous Transformers franchise as well as the latest one, Dark of the Moon.

We tried to learn from the second movie. On the second movie we got burned. We had a writers strike, we had to agree on a story in three weeks, and then we knew they were going on strike. It was a fucked scenario all the way around, it wasn’t fair to the writer, it wasn’t fair to me, it wasn’t fair to anybody. It was still an entertaining movie, but I think we failed on certain aspects. What we did with this movie is I think we have a much better script, and we got back to basics. I think there’s some really cool action on this movie, there’s some very cool conspiracy, there’s great robot stuff in this that people were missing in the second one, you’ve got great robot conflict. So I’m excited about this movie. It’s more serious. I got rid of the dorky comedy, I mean we’ve got two little characters, that’s it, but the dorkiness is not there. Dork-free Transformers. It’s much more serious. It’s still entertaining, it’s big looking.

Michael also gave a glimpse about the new character, Carly, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who was said to be an assistant of UK Embassy and that Sam Witwicky (our lovely Shia) lives with her while he’s trying to get his first job. I personally love Rosie—she’s pretty and even Michael and Steven Spielberg were “intrigued” by her casting tape. Michael also said that there he won’t be directing for anymore Transformers installments. Full interview under the cut, including the technical stuff about the 3D shoots. It’s worth reading!

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