Director Michael Bay said that the fourth installment of Transformers won't have any "goofiness" and will be "much more cinematic," in an interview with Yahoo.

He spoke with the media organization while filming in Detroit. Bay suggested that this time around he was looking to make sure the Transformers film had a smooth feel to it, without any ragged edged or loose ends.

"I wanted the first Transformers to be very suburban and less cool," Bay said. "This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won't be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one]."

The fact that the film is set three years after the last one gave Bay the opportunity to work a completely new take while retaining the context of the franchise. The director spoke about enjoying those freedoms and how it helped in the making of Transformers: Age of Extinction.

"It feels like a new chapter, this movie," he said. "But it's not a reboot. This movie lives in the history of the Transformers movies, and this one starts three years after the last. It feels fresh."

The director also spoke about the massive technical undertaking on set and the kind of equipment he liked to shoot the film with. Some shots of Bay aboard a "runner" were revealed from the set.

"I do big setups," Bay said. "I like to do 'runners', where [the cameras are] with the characters in the war. We're in the thick of it with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci, and we've got all these things going off."

Jack Reynor is the male lead of the film and will be playing a race car driver. Nicola Peltz plays Reynor's girlfriend in the film and Mark Wahlberg will portray Flynn Vincent, Peltz's dad. Kelsey Grammer will be playing the role of Harold Attinger, a counter-intelligence agent who is the main antagonist in the film.

Transformers: Age of Extinction comes out on June 2, 2014.

Watch a video from the set of the filming in Hong Kong:

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