Kelsey Grammer to play villian in 'Transformers 4'

Actor Kelsey Grammer will reportedly play villain in the next and fourth installment of the "Transformers" movie franchise.

This will be his first association with the "Transformers" series, reports variety.com.

The movie will be helmed by Michael Bay, who has directed the previous three installments of the franchise. The movie is expected to release June 27, 2014.

Grammer, 58, has earlier worked in movies like "Teacher's Pet", "Middle Men", "Monsters University".