Bay: 'Transformers 3 will have less action'

Director Michael Bay has revealed that the third Transformers film will be less action-driven than its predecessors.

The filmmaker made the admission in the All Spark Experiment feature on the DVD for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.

He said: "It can't get bigger, we have to figure out to go sideways and I'm wondering where to start. What I'm doing is having Hasbro send me tons of lore and stuff like that, things that we can draw from, and I just got to let it simmer.

"Definitely more has to be made of Bumblebee in the third one, that's a relationship you want to explore more. And I think we're definitely going to get more into the robot characters."

He added: "The third one definitely doesn't have to be as big, we could go darker. It definitely has to be more emotional, it's not going to be just about action, action, action.

"And that's where I think T3 might potentially go, where things are more undercover and not as exposed."

Bay recently announced that the third instalment of the Autobots and Decepticons franchise will be released on July 1, 2011.