In a recent interview, Michael Bay was asked about Transformers 4 and provided a little more context for the action and 'splosions to come. According to the director, the new film will take place four years in the future, offering the series a clean slate, while also adhering to the continuity that's already been established.

"The movie is going to continue four years on from the attack on Chicago which was in the last movie," Bay told TMZ. "So it's going still to have the same lineage but going in a full, new, different direction and it actually feels really natural how it is going in that direction."

This news would make sense, considering Bay's recent casting of Mark Wahlberg in the leading role, leaving behind the franchise's former poster boy Shia LaBeouf.

Production begins in the spring for a June 27, 2014 release.

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