'Transformers 4' Is Set Four Years After 'Dark of the Moon'

We recently posted that Contraband-star Mark Wahlberg will be headlining the fourth chapter of Michael Bay's nonsensical movie adaptation series of The Transformers, meaning that Shia LaBeouf is officially ditched. TMZ runs across Bay who spoke about the upcoming blockbuster epic and revealed that the sequel is set four years after the events that happened with the series's third movie, Dark of the Moon.

"The movie is going to continue four years from the attack on Chicago," says Bay, "which was in the last movie. It's going to have the same lineage, but it's going in a full new direction. It actually feels very natural how it's going in that direction... We're doing a lot of things that are really going to make it fresh and feel new."

Production is likely to begin on spring next year if they want to catch up with the targeted June 27, 2014 release date. Steven Speilberg, I couldn't believe, was talked into this, exec producing the film.

This news of course is a McDonald's french fries. You know that it's bad for you, but you dig it anyway. That's the only positive thing I'll ever say to you, Bay. Your irresistible awesome filmmaking, you. 

More news to share as this develops.