naznatips said: Wait, didn't Universal tell Michael Bay if he spouted crap against HD-DVD again they would pull him from Transformers 2? Oh please god tell me this means he won't be allowed to fuck up the sequel like he did the first one! |
It was Paramount, not Universal, and Bay made the threat, not the studio. He threatened to not make Transformers 2 if the first was not released on Blu-Ray. Of course, he quietly rescinded the statement the next day, stating that both formats are great.
He then trashed talked HD DVD the day Transformers came out on DVD/HD DVD.
And now this.
Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott have all been very pro-Blu-Ray from the start. It's most likely because, as Directors, they feel that the added capacity and higher bitrates of Blu-Ray will lead to a better representation of their films.
There has not been a single director that has expressed a preference for HD DVD, that I am aware of.