In a recent Instagram post, filmmaker Michael Bay appeared to shut down rumours that he’s currently directing a “Skibidi Toilet” film, despite several reports earlier, from official sources, this week suggesting otherwise.
Bay, looking laid-back and alone in a spacious room with a glass ceiling, addresses the rumors directly in the video: “I went on the internet last night and it says stuff about me directing something, I know what I’m directing, but it’s not the thing they keep talking about.”
The video then shifts to show a table covered in scripts as Bay continues: “That’s a movie. These are a whole bunch of movies right now, one is in serious prep, one is in soft prep, one I’m writing, one getting ready to produce or two to produce, but there’s not one in that little pile that says ‘Skibidi,’ so let’s just stop the lore right now. OK. You heard it from me.”
Back in July of last year, news surfaced that Bay and former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman were collaborating on a potential “Skibidi Toilet” project through Goodman’s production company, Invisible Narratives. Goodman had confirmed the early development on a podcast, stating, “We are absolutely in talks right now, both on the television side and the earliest conversations right now on the film side. But it’s not a be-all, end-all for us.” He also mentioned the project had the potential to become “the next ‘Transformers’ or could be a Marvel universe.”
Following months of silence, things stirred again last week when a press release from Invisible Narratives revealed that Oscar-nominated production designer Jeffrey Beecroft and Academy Award-winning VFX supervisor Rob Legato had joined the project. The release also stated Bay had “been working on Skibidi since it was first publicly announced last summer.”
Just days ago, teaser visuals tied to the project appeared on Bay’s Instagram reels, prompting fresh speculation that filming had officially begun. At this point, however, the actual status of the project remains unclear.
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