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Updated: Jan 05, 2016 13:46 IST

Director Michael Bay will return to direct Transformers 5 after all. Bay had promised to pull out of the series after both Transformers 3 and 4.

Bay, 50, who has directed all the films in Transformers series confirmed the news, said The Hollywood Reporter.

However, the Pearl Harbor and Armageddon helmer said that he is willing to pass on the director’s cap to someone as this will be his last Transformers movie.

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“Transformers, I still have a great time,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “It’s fun to do a movie that 100 million people will see. But this is the last one. I have to pass the reins to someone else,” he said. Reminded that he had said this twice before Bay responded, “I know. JJ (Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens director) told me, ‘You’re the only guy that could do this.’ But it’s time to move on. One more.”

Re: directing TF5. No, it's not official. I have not committed to any idea as of yet. Just met with Steven and we are discussing. — Michael Bay (@michaelbay) September 17, 2015

Paramount Pictures recently organised sessions with writers to create a new direction for the franchise, with the new script being written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway along with Ken Nolan.

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Actor Mark Walhberg, who starred in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, is expected to lead the cast. The new movie is an attempt to create a greater cinematic universe for Transformers.

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