Action maestro Michael Bay is signing on to direct the next “Transformers” movie for David Ellison‘s new Skydance studio, multiple sources tell Page Six Hollywood.

Bay, 61, is in final talks to direct the project, and has been negotiating to get final cut on the film as the last sticking point, we hear.

Bay — whose credits include over-the-top blockbusters like “Pearl Harbor,” “Armageddon” and “Bad Boys” — directed the first five “Transformers” films from 2007 through 2017 for Paramount, which made a combined $4.38 billion worldwide for the studio.

After Bay stepped away, Travis Knight directed “Bumblebee” (2018) and Steven Caple Jr. then directed “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” (2023).

(“Rise of the Beasts” made $441,656,550 worldwide. So the franchise could use a Bay jumpstart.)

The last “Transformers” movie came out in 2023, and made $441,656,550 worldwide. So the franchise could use a Bay jumpstart.

But the director told Rolling Stone before helming his final “Transformers” movie, “Transformers: The Last Knight,” nearly a decade ago that he was burnt out on the sequels. “I’m doing Transformers … 5, is it?” he asked at the time, adding, “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.”

Skydance CEO Ellison inherited the “Transformers” franchise when he bought Paramount in 2025. It’s the type of film that’s in Ellison’s wheelhouse — having previously produced such popcorn projects in the “Top Gun,” “Terminator” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises — and would seemingly fit into the new Skydance mold.

Bay had first approached Paramount in 2025 about returning to the “Transformers” series, Puck reported at the time, and pitched a new story in the series. 

The eighth “Transformers” film has yet to be cast. 

The first three movies starred Shia Labeouf, and the next two starred Mark Wahlberg as the human lead. The series also was known for some off-screen drama when Bay fired Megan Fox from the third film, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” after the actress roasted Bay in a magazine interview, even casually calling him “Hitler.”

Bay is making the deal to return to the “Transformers” movies via his reps at Range Media Partners. (Bay split from super-agent Ari Emanuel and his longtime reps at WME in 2022, and now WME may be praying that Bay’s “Transformers” return falls under his old deal with the agency.)

Just this week, Robert Pattinson said that Bay’s 2007 “Transformers” is the “definitive movie of the 2000s.” in an A24 and Letterboxd video.

Bay’s last feature was the 2022 movie “Ambulance,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González.

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