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Transformers and Armageddon director Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, with the help of the VFX supervisor from Avatar, and I promise this is real
No, this isn't a very delayed April Fool's joke: Michael 'Bad Boys' Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie, and he's got the man behind the Avatar special effects involved as well
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Regular Popverse readers will be familiar with Skibidi Toilet, and the complicated semiotics that surround the surreal internet series, even if that might not be immediately obvious upon first glance. It’s in that framework, then, that I wish to impart this news: they’re making a Skibidi Toilet movie. And, perhaps more importantly, the “they” in question is Transformers and The Rock director Michael Bay.
Just let that sink in for a second: Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie.
Even more surprisingly, it’s already in production as you read this, with features work from the multiple-Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, who’s previously worked on Titanic and Avatar. Bay has apparently been working on the project since last summer.
The surprising collaboration between the Gen Alpha internet phenomenon and the 60-year-old man behind Bad Boys, Armageddon, Ambulance, and the increasingly nonsensical Transformers movie series is the brainchild of new media studio Invisible Narratives, which is financing the entire project, in addition to developing it and producing it. (Invisible Narratives was founded by Adam Goodman, who was head of Paramount when Bay was making Transformers, if you’re wondering how this all came together.)
According to the studio, the project “brings Bay’s signature visual intensity to one of the internet’s most unlikely breakout IPs,” which sounds like exactly what anyone should expect from the collaboration. Here’s the thing, though; anyone who’s tried to make sense of Transformers: Dark of the Moon knows full well that Bay has experience making visually overwhelming nonsense that somehow appeals to its target demographic while being lowkey indecipherable to everyone else — and, for that matter, doing it with high levels of financial success. As strange as it might initially seem, this might be the perfect combination of filmmaker and franchise.
No release date — or, for that matter, release format — as been announced for the project, but updates are promised via its website for those brave enough to sign up.
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