Say Hi to Your Mother for Me, Optimus!

This speaks to their working well together on Pain & Gain, I take it.

While not committing the act of proclaiming "done deal," Twitch says Michael Bay is talking Mark Wahlberg into starring in Transformers 4. Most recent rumors suggested a female lead to change things up for the departing Shia LaBeouf, who you will never convince me quit on his own accord. What moron walks from the gravy-train stuffing $10-$15 million paychecks in your wallet every two years?

One could argue the franchise doesn't require a human-face. This is all about Bay's fetishistic action and depiction of women, minorities and his pro-military hard on. And the fist-swapping robots. But Wahlberg is a likeable enough presence and the folks and us film-snobs equally dig him. That'll do, Bay.