Do Michael Bay and Veena Sud have more in common than meets the eye? Mr. Bay makes movies about robots that transform into vehicles and technological devices; Ms. Sud produces a television series about a murder mystery that transforms into a much longer commitment than audiences realize. Both have complicated relationships with their fan bases, to say the least, and now both are preparing new film projects that hope to move things forward while starting them over.

Mr. Bay, the whiz-bang-kaboom director, has announced on his Web site that he would make a new “Transformers” movie for Paramount Pictures as part of a two-film deal for that studio. Based on the popular toy series, “Transformers” and its two sequels, “Revenge of the Fallen” and “Dark of the Moon,” have been among the most critically derided movies of recent years but have also sold more than $2.6 billion in tickets worldwide. A statement on Mr. Bay’s site said the next “Transformers” movie would be “a new take” on the story and would be released on June 29, 2014. (Mr. Bay’s other movie in the Paramount deal will be called “Pain and Gain,” but it’s about criminal bodybuilders, not skyscraper-size action figures.)

Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter said Ms. Sud, the producer and show runner of the AMC series “The Killing,” would write a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Suspicion” for the Montecito Picture Company. If that raises suspicions of its own, it may be because Ms. Sud last year took criticism from viewers for the first-season finale of “The Killing,” which did not resolve the murder at the heart of the show and instead seemed to prolong its story for another year. No casting or director was announced for the film remake (the original starred Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine) but audiences can probably expect a concluded story in two hours or so.