OMG? I hope there's nothing to the Bay rumors...
I'm not a Bay hater, but I was less than impressed with some of his work in ROTF, most importantly the stale acting of the human characters. I'll admit he does do action extremely well and doesn't skimp on it either and that's what made Rotf a half way decent film.
And more action is desperately what Superman needs. But Michael Bay shouldn't be allowed anywhere near this franchise. Bay really hasn't taken the transformers seriously, and he didn't respect alot of the sorce material (but since the Transformers have had so many incarnations over the years and were pretty much a half hour toy comercial to begin with, it wasn't so bad- except for hardcore G1 fans). However, If he took the same aproach to Superman it would be a total disaster.
Imagine a Superman costume that looks nothing like the costume we know (not just a darker shade of red, or a slightly small S but a completely different costume), imagine a comic relief scene where Superman gets an erection in his tights, imagine Krypto humping Lois, or Darkseid calling superman a punk @** B****...It scares me to think what might happen if Bay were given the keys to Superman, even if it meant WB raking in twice the box office SR made. Since I don't get any of that money, I'd prefer they make the best movie possible instead, with plenty of substance and inteligence to go along with tons of action and explosions.
Please don't attack me claiming I want another overly dramactic film like we got with Superman Returns, but I think somewhere in the middle of those two aproaches is where a truely great Superman film will be made.