Director and explosion fanatic Michael Bay has confirmed that Transformers 4 will be set appropriately 4 years after the climactic events of the last film Transformers Dark Of The Moon. We already know that the human cast are being entirely replaced with a sweaty Shia LaBeouf making way for Mark Wahlberg looking typically confused and/or angry.

“The movie will continue four years from the attack on Chicago, which is in the last movie. So it’s going to still have the same lineage. And it’s going a full new direction and feels very natural how it’s going in that direction. There is no way you’re going to ever find out what the story is. You don’t have to dig through my trash… I shredded my trash.”

So Michael Bay is promising that the new Transformers film will be going in a vaguely ‘new direction’ despite the fact it’s quickly evolved from a welcome franchise reboot with a new director to a straightforward sequel directed by himself.

It remains to be seen whether or not this ‘new direction’ for the unavoidably popular fighting robot franchise will involve less lingerie models making their acting debuts between an endless series of explosions. Transformers 4  will arrive in UK cinemas on 27 June 2014.