Bay - Kind of Sad To Leave Franchise After Transformers 3; Comments On Controversy During NASA Shoot

Michael Bay has confirmed what Shia LaBeouf said earlier this month: he is done with the Transformers franchise after Transformers Dark of the Moon is done. "I'm kind of sad to leave the franchise," he writes on his website's official message board.

Mr. LaBeouf talked to MTV earlier this month saying that he is three-and-out with franchise.

"For sure," he replied when asked if it was really his last turn as Sam. "I'm not coming back to do another one."

Mr. Bay also denied the outcome of the confrontation that Mr. LaBeouf detailed to Hero Complex in an article released earlier this week.

In the article, Mr. LaBeouf said that he and Mr. Bay got into an argument about what should be played from a speaker during their shoot at NASA facilities in Space Coast, Florida earlier this year, with resulted in Mr. Bay leaving before the scene was complete.

According to the recount from Mr. LaBeouf, during the shoot of an emotional sequence with military and NASA personnel watching, he attempted to put himself in a somber mood by playing Feist's "Brandy Alexander" on his iPod through some speakers.

Mr. Bay then unplugged the iPod and replaced it with the score from The Dark Knight.

“I feel something when I hear it," Mr. LaBeouf told Hero Complex.

"But Mike doesn’t want to listen to ‘Brandy Alexander’ under the rocket with 50 military dudes around.”

Mr. LaBeouf took Mr. Bay aside and tells him that this scene "is the most important moment in the movie for me. The crux of my whole character, my whole arc."

They began to have an argument and Mr. Bay decided to leave with his group of NASA and military personnel, according to Mr. LaBeouf.

"I read so many of these articles Shia speaks in, and the quotes are so wonderfully untrue." Mr. Bay counters in his message. He continues that Mr. LaBeouf "is an actor that makes his own reality and that's what I love about him."

He denies the rumor that he left before the scene was complete, saying that "[t]o think for a second I would leave my own set to have someone shoot and finish the scene would never - ever happen."