Transformers and Transformers 2 writer Roberto Orci, who is now back to work, has posted an updates on Don Murphy’s message board and the progress of the script and the work Michael bay has been doing during the strike:

So we got back to work this week and we find out Bay and production has been prepping the entire movie off of our pre-strike outline! The very one we turned in the night before the strike.

Unfortunately, Michael Bay seems to want to add more humour to the film, which, based on the first film’s humour, will not work and even contradicts what Bay said about a serious movie on the Transformers DVD.

He essentially transferred our outline into screenplay format and came up with some really fun gags and a few descriptions of the kind of hardware he will need for production.