CNN.com - Michael Bay may direct 'Transformers' - Apr 6, 2005: "Michael Bay is in talks to direct the DreamWorks/Paramount live-action adaptation of 'The Transformers,' Hasbro's popular 1980s toy line of giant robots that morph into cars, trucks, planes, ships and other technological creations."

"The Transformers are divided into two groups of robots, one led by Optimus Prime, which believes in tolerance and the sanctity of life, the other by Megatron, which espouses survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological life."