Today is one freaky scary huge day for news, folks, so sit down and brace yourselves because this is going to take a while.

I find out that Michael Bay is actually considering taking the third installment of the Transformers series to the original Motor City, Detroit.  Other cities are also in the running, but Detroit has me most interested.

Being as I am FROM Michigan let me just pause for a moment here and express the complexity of emotions I feel at this moment.  One, I’m happy to see that somebody’s planning to do something with that burnt-out section of death Michigan lovingly calls Detroit–seriously, if you’d seen it lately, you’d know that it’s seen better days.  For crying out loud, Bay could take maybe five percent of his shooting budget for Transformers 3 and BUY large sections of Detroit outright.

Two, I’m a bit concerned.  Detroit is…well…dangerous these days.  Large sections of it are abandoned.  There was talk about bulldozing sections and converting it to farm ground.

Maybe that’s the plan.  A few hundred abandoned buildings would make great set pieces for Michael Bay to blow up, and this would probably accomplish something the city would want done anyway.

And considering that Bay’s already described Transformers 3 as being “very different from the other two”, who KNOWS what he’s going to do?

One thing’s for sure, though, he definitely got my interest.