Rumblings of a Robopocalypse movie have been swirling around for a few years now, with Steven Spielberg once in the frame to direct the big screen adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 sci-fi novel. Well now, a director has indeed been found for the cinematic take.

As per Variety, it will actually be Michael Bay who’ll be in the director’s chair for Robopocalypse. Yes, the one and the same Michael Bay who has a penchant for fast cars, explosions, and gratuitous close-ups of Megan Fox’s arse.

Spielberg had previously been attached to direct the adaptation back in 2013, and he’s tried to get the project off the ground at several points over the past few years. In fact, Spielberg even began to amass a cast, with Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway, and Ben Whishaw all lined up. Scripting and coast issues were quoted by Spielberg as being the main reason for production never fully coming to be. Drew Goddard had worked on several draft scripts, although it is currently unclear whether any of those will be used moving forward or if a new script will be started from scratch. For Spielberg, he is still involved in a producing capacity, which is the same role he’s had on Bay’s Transformers franchise.

The official blurb on the Robopocalypse novel reads:

Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike, yet massively powerful, artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour, the moment the robots attack, the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told be an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines.

Expect more on all of this as it continues to develop.