By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Michael Bay has set his Bay Films to a multiyear first look deal with Sony Pictures to produce both film and TV projects.
The deal was being worked on and was mostly done in January, before the town shut down. Last week saw the first fresh film auction with the Ryan Gosling-attached adaptation of Project Hail Mary, the novel by The Martian author Andy Weir which MGM won.
This is the first overall film/TV deal to commence since then, as hopefully the business begins to show signs of life. Deal puts Bay back at the studio where he made his directorial debut on 1995’s Bad Boys.
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