Yesterday, we rounded up a collection of the latest stories surrounding the upcoming third Transformers movie. They're right here if you want to read them.

However, the one thing we didn't touch on was the plans to make the movie in 3D. Various options had been reported a while back, with Michael Bay revealing that he was trying to upcovert some footage from the earlier films to see how well it works. According to a new report up at Deadline Hollywood, ‘not very well' would appear to be the answer.

In an interesting piece over at the site, Bay revealed, "I shoot complicated stuff, I put real elements into action scenes and honestly, I am not sold right now on the conversion process." Bay had been looking into shooting with 3D cameras, but wasn't sold at all considering the pace of the action he likes to put on film. Inevitably, he's this been leaned on by Paramount/DreamWorks to allow a retrofit once the film is in the can.

However, Bay appears to be holding out. "I am trying to be sold, and some companies are still working on the shots I gave them. Right now, it looks like fake 3D, with layers that are very apparent. You go to the screening room, you are hoping to be thrilled, and you're thinking, huh, this kind of sucks. People can say whatever they want about my movies, but they are technically precise, and if this isn't going to be excellent, I don't want to do it. And it is my choice."

The more he talks about it, too, the more we find ourselves oddly warming to him. In particular, his comments on upconverting already shot footage are bang on the mark for us. "This conversion process is always going to be inferior to shooting in real 3D," he said. "Studios might be willing to sacrifice the look and use the gimmick to make $3 more a ticket, but I'm not. Avatar took four years. You can't just shit out a 3D movie. I'm saying, the jury is still out."

Blimey.

You can read the full article here, and Transformers 3 - seemingly without 3D - will be arriving in the summer of 2011.