Shia LaBeouf continues to hype up his upcoming summer movie "Transformers," but manages to keep releasing new juicy tidbits. Now he estimated the number of big action set pieces, and it’s high.
"It’s going to be long," Labeouf said. "He’s going to give you a lot. You’ve got 20 set pieces. You look at ‘Spider-Man‘ and it had five big action sequences, five set pieces. We have 20, and you’ve got to get storyline in, you’ve got to get the narrative in so a lot of explanation. You can’t just have robots fighting for no reason. You’ve got to explain it. The movies going to run, I think, about two and a half."
It’s good to hear Labeouf excited about the film again, since last time we spoke he was worn out. "When I was doing press for ‘Bobby,’ I was filming the day before, and then I was filming the day after. It was like there was no time to breathe. We were in the middle of it at that point. I still had adrenaline from the day before and the night before shoot. I was at the table and we were talking about politics and all I was thinking about was the f***ing explosion that just happened in my head. Like talking to the dude who had just come out of the war zone, he’s not going to talk to you about the nicest things or be in the most pleasant mood."
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Now that he’s seeing the fruits of his labors, LaBeouf has a new respect for Michael Bay‘s method. "I’d work with him again in a second. I love him. He’s a great guy. And the reason I say this, not many people could make ‘Transformers.’ When you’re hair’s on fire, you don’t want the director who’s going to come up to you while your hair’s on fire and say, ‘Listen, what I was thinking about, I’m kind of nervous about it, what we’re going to do is we’re going to put you in the Orpheum Theatre. You’re going to hang by the — because at this point, the Megatron is going to come, right? You know the Megatron, where he’s coming from and his emotional place, right?’ You don’t want that guy. You’re f***ing head is on fire. You want the guy who comes up to you: ‘Your hair’s on fire. Here we go. Boot up. Good. Strap up, we’re going to go. Mine’s right there. This is going to fall. You’re gonna go? Good. Action. Boom.’ That’s how movies get made."
