George Lucas hasn't really done done anything great for a long time, TBH I don't really have faith he could pull off a good transoformers film, plus he only does passion porjects these days.

Steven Spieldberg the logical choice to take over from Bay who has said he doesn't want to do another transformers for a while, he has great pedigree in the genre and he is probably largely responsable for a lot of the good things in the current movies anyway.

James Cameron while he could undoubtably do a great transformers film I would much rather see his Battle Angel Allita film anyway.

Christopher Nolan while he is undoubtedly amoung the greatest film makers working in hollywood today his style of realistically grounded character driven films is not really a great fit for transformers.

Sam Raimi I would rather see Warcraft TBH and I don't really like the spider-man films anyway

Martin Scorsese nope not a good fit for a action bassed special effects driven film and a waste of his tellents anyway.

Ridley Scott now he definatly has a strong pedagree in epic action movies and he definatly can do great sci-fi he also has a sense of for story telling, he would be a great fit

The Wachowski Bro's while they basically invented the modern action film with the Matrix and definatly have the nerd cred let's face it they have only made 2 great films and they seem to do worse higher the budget so probably not the best bet for a Transformers film

Guillermo Del Toro now that would be an interesting film, he could really bring something different to the table, definatly has the nerd cred, has a great eye and is an exelent film maker. But I am not sure he would be the best fit as he is at his best when the films are dark and gritty and his imagination can run wild.



a few other candidates would be Jon Favreau, Petter Jackson and Zack Snyder

Also in what world is the seccond biggest oppening ever world wide and 6th in America a dissapointment?

I'm going with the Coen brothers.

What are you suggesting?That Fincher is a much better director than Nolan?Damn,keep dreaming.

Agreed. I almost feel like the question should have been, "Aside from Chris Nolan..." as he's well on his way to being considered the greatest director of our (or perhaps any) time.

i don't have a problem with transformers,the first film is great entertaintment and works well,the second certainly didn't work as well but had good action sequences,haven't seen the third yet,no doubt there will be another 3 so it will be good to see where they are going to go

David Fincher is every bit as good as Nolan, just cause Nolan made Dark Knight doesn't mean he's all of a sudden untouchable. 

Let's use metacritic then.

David Fincher   

Christopher Nolan  

Nolan never made a bad movie,while Fincher screwed it with Lords of Dogtown (56 on MT),but he was the executive producer on that.

Thats not even a 10 point difference, David Fincher has a few bumps in his career nobody can deny that, but his best works are right up there with anything Nolan ever put out, they're both great directors get over it. 

Wait a second here...When did I say that Fincher isn't a great director?He's brilliant actually!I really loved The Social Network,but my 2 most favourite movies of all time are Nolan's(Inception,and TKD respectively).Many consider Inception to be the best movie ever,and almost everyone would agree with when I say that TKD is the best comic-book hero movie ever made.

David Fincher is excellent,but Nolan has been having a flawless run up untill now.

Wow, this Nolan worship bugs me to no end. It's making me resent him more than I should and I really wish people would just ease up with it. The man can't direct an action sequence to save his life, so why give him something like Transformers? Especially considering the caliber of directors on the list that have been proven to handle action AND storytelling together quite well (especially Cameron and Spielberg).

Anyway, IF the series does get another director, I'm prett convinced it wouldn't be anyone on this list. It'd probably be some young, hot and CHEAP director. Basically what they're doing with the GIJoe sequel ...