Mark Wahlberg: The new Shia LaBeouf? Michael Bay and Paramount announced Thursday that Wahlberg, who stars in Bay's real life crime pic Pain & Gain, will lead the franchise sequel Transformers 4. "An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers? legacy," said Bay in a statement.
LaBeouf's run as the squirrelly-scrappy lead of the Transformers franchise ended with Transformers: Dark of The Moon (he's moving onward to more artsy fare, anyway — Von Trier ahoy!), but casting someone like Wahlberg changes the game considerably. He's got the star power of Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel in one. He was nominated twice for the Oscar. He is Mark Wahlberg.
I imagine this deal going down one day on the Pain & Gain set over beers, Wahlberg in his Pain & Gain tracksuit (or maybe this short shorts outfit) and Bay in a smoking jacket, because for some reason I always picture Michael Bay in a smoking jacket. Feel the vibration!
Full press release follows; weigh in on the casting move below. Does it change your feelings on Bay's mega-blockbuster robot franchise at all? Can we now conceivably picture Transformers and Pain & Gain as connected worlds in the Michael Bay multiverse?
HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 8, 2012) ? After an exceptionally successful collaboration on the upcoming ?Pain and Gain,? Michael Bay has cast Academy Award�-nominee Mark Wahlberg in the highly anticipated ?TRANSFORMERS 4.? The film will hit theaters June 27th, 2014.
?Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on ?Pain and Gain? and I?m so fired up to be back working with him. An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the
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