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Dan Gross has reported in his column in the Philadelphia Daily News that Mike Pericoloso has been cast as a “Hot College Guy” in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The part is only a minor role.
Pericoloso has stared recently in the reality show, From G’s to Gents, on MTV in North America.
Vamphite of Don Murphy’s Message Board has posted some pictures of the Transformers vehicles being unloaded at Edwards Air Force Base. The pictures show some of the new vehicles for the sequel, as well as some from the first film, like Optimus Prime’s flame truck and Ratchet’s ambulance.
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In an interview with IGN, Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen actress Megan Fox has talked about the budget for the sequel and what has happened between the first and second film for her character. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is set two years after the first movie, so 2009, and that Sam and Mikaela are still together. She also mentions that the budget for Revenge of the Fallen will be double of that of the first film, which explains how more robots can be accomodated.
Be sure to look out for Megan Fox at Comic-Con in San Diego.
Q: Compared to the first, you’d say it’s way bigger?
Fox: It’s twice the budget, so yeah.
Q: Can you say where this movie picks up for your characters?
Fox: It’s two years later, so when it comes out it will be present day. Shia [LaBeouf, who reprises his role as Sam Witwicky] and I have been dating for two years, so it’s kind of like old news. There’s no big love scenes or anything like that – you kind of get into the couple bickering now. That stage, like the old married couple. That’s all I can say!
MTV have recently sat down with British actor Matthew Marsden, who plays a British Special Forces Officer in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In the interview, he discusses bits of the plot, the role his character plays and where abouts in the film he appears, so there are plenty of SPOILERS you will probably want to avoid.
At this years E3 game convention, Activision Blizzard showed off their games offerings for 2008 and 2009, including some movie based games like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Quantum of Solace but more importantly Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The sequel based game will be out around the time of the film (June/July 2009) on nearly all platforms. Unlike the first game, which was developed by Traveller’s Tales, this game will be developed by Luxoflux. Luxoflux developed Vigilante 8 on the Nintendo 64 and the True Crime series.
Also announced was the Transformers: Animated game for the Nintendo DS, due out in October. Hopefully some confirmed details on these games will be revealed in the next couple of days.
Inbetween filming on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at an “undisclosed location”, director Michael Bay answered some questions from Entertainment Weekly. He doesn’t reveal much, except that he is still releasing fake pieces of information all the time.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tell us about Transformers 2? Or, better yet, what will you tell us?
MICHAEL BAY: When we were writing the script, I said to the writers, “I hate sequels that try to make it to the third movie. Pretend like we’re never having a third movie, so let’s go for broke on the second one. I hate those cliffhangers! Let’s just make this movie stand on its own.” I really feel this movie is not a forced sequel. I think the script is really good, and I think it’s got a lot of new stuff in it. There are a lot of rumors out there, but we’ve released a lot of fake stuff. We’ve done a really good job of keeping things secret.Can you give us a hint of something that is true then?
[Laughs] No.C’mon, anything?
There are some great, new robots that are really inventive.You recently wrapped production on your update of Friday the 13th, and horror buffs out there are dying to know: what’s it going to be about?
It’s a reconception of the original. We’re introducing a whole group of new kids. What we always try to do is add a little bit of freshness to these movies that were really scary back then and update them for a new audience.
Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen writter Roberto Orci has recently been interviewed by Sci Fi Wire, who have tried to get bits and pieces out of him.
Orci doges the question about Arcee being in the sequel but confirms that Soundwave will be appearing, but did not spill any details on what his transformation would be. He also declined comment on whether Cybertron would be featured.
Competition time people, and a simply one at that. Writer Chris Mowry is offering fans a chance to win the original drafts and other bits of material from Reign of Starscream #1, copies of the finished issues #1, #2, and #3 and the scripts for the issues. All you have to do is take a picture of Starscream by 31st July. Simple. Full details can be found on Mowry’s blog.
So that’s the contest! Send me your photos of Starscream (in toy form… any version) visiting somewhere on our planet. Would he go back to Ohio to seek out the fembots of Botcon? Would he be hiding at a local coffee shop? Finally learning about human physiology at the beach with Barricade? Of course, he wouldn’t travel far without a copy of his comic book, now would he? IT’S UP TO YOU!!!
Michael Bay’s forum Administrator Nelson, has posted what could be considered a hint towards when we will get the first trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In his message, he says “no” to a trailer at Hasbro’s panel at the San Diego Comic-Con but for a trailer to come out in November.
Of course, this could be part of Michael Bay’s misinformation campaign, but we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
IESB.net is reporting that Hasbro will be showing some early footage from Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen during their panel at the San Diego Comic-Con 2008. The reason for Hasbro showing the footage, and not Paramount is because they have no plans represent Transformers (or G.I. Joe) at the convention.
SDCC 08 is taking place from 24th-27th July.
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