Michael Bay has been making some of the biggest big-budget movies in the industry for decades now, and the landscape of tentpole filmmaking has only grown increasingly more massive since Bay broke onto the scene with Bad Boys back in 1995. There's been an industry-wide shift in studio filmmaking toward producing fewer movies, with bigger budgets, and there's no doubt that's partly to do with the rise of superhero cinema and the goliath set-pieces that come with it.

Which is what makes it so surprising that a master of top-shelf spectacle like Bay hasn't dipped his toe in the superhero genre yet. Sure, he's been a little busy with his Transformers franchise over the last decade, which only left him with enough time to squeeze in two non-Autobot adventures in between, but it seems like a match made in heaven that's yet to be made. So, what gives?

Over the summer, Collider's own Steven Weintraub visited the set of Bay's latest entry in the long-running franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, and during a wide-ranging interview with the director, the conversation turned to the state of superhero movies and why Bay hasn't tried his hand at one yet.

It's not that Bay isn't a fan, "I really liked Civil War. I like a lot of the Marvel movies," he told the journalists on set. "When I saw Iron Man, it broke a lot of new ground for me, and it was a great character. Funny, witty, I liked that about it." Though he does "wonder where [superhero movies] are going to go," noting that Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War as having "almost the same setup."

The bigger problem is that Bay doesn't want to come into a movie universe that's already fully formed. He wants to create the world himself. And that pretty much rules out joining a shared universe. "I wouldn't want to, it's not my thing, it's just not my gig," Bay explained.

"I don't ever wanna take someone like a third of something or second of something. I gotta do my own thing," Bay continued, "'cause the most fun is when a real director creates the world. You know, you talk to Ridley Scott, one our favorite things to do is to create the world. Steven Spielberg, create the world. That is what it's about." Adding, "If I were to do something I would have to redo it my way."

So there you have it, Bay isn't headed the way of superheroes after The Last Knight (which is supposedly his last installment in the now-shared Transformers universe). That is, unless he gets to build his own universe.

Would you guys like to see Bay take on a superhero film? Which hero would fit well in his combat-heavy style? Sound off in the comments and for more from The Last Knight set, check out the links below.

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