IGN FilmForce caught up with Steven Spielberg on the set of War of the Worlds to talk about Indy 4 but managed to get a quick word from him about The Transformers movie out next year. This is what he had to say

“It’s happening. We’ll announce the director in three weeks, three or four weeks�”

So as you can see, it is happening. The full news report on IGN can be seen here.

Don Murphy has provided some info on the movie and has revealed the a line from the script. SPOILERS follow…..

1) There will be some Transformers shown in prehistoric time

2) Optimus is a truck

3) It is less than 2 hours long.

4) Soundwave has a non-size shifting mode

5) No Dinobots are planned for this movie or sequels at this time.

The first line revealed from the script can be found here.

OK UK Transformers fans, the date you all wanted, but not the right answer. UIP have announced the date for the Transformers movie as 27th July, over 3 weeks after the premier in North America. This is after The Philippines, Germany, Austria, USA, Belgium, France and The Netherlands.

There is an open casting call for the Transformers Movie

    The Open Call will be held     Date  Thursday, June 29, 2006    Time  5PM - 8PM    Location  Central Casting    220 South Flower Street    Burbank, CA  91502

Central Casting is the largest extras casting company in the world and has been in business since 1925. The company casts extras for film, television, and commercials. Central Casting is a division of Entertainment Partners.

This is from Yahoo! News. Thanks to Aardvark of TFArchive for the news.

German site pagenstecher.de have taken some interesting photos of a police car, tank and helicopter. Check out the photos here.

Over at Don Murphy site he has given us some updates on the progress of the script but it is the information that the TF script writers are looking for thats getting the fans excited.

Over at superherohype.com a small interview with Micheal Bay has been posted. but don,t worry just head over to the forum and you can get all the info you need.

Don Murphy has posted on his site that he has received the first draft from John Rogers. The film can now move forward and hopefully make the Summer 2006 deadline set by Hasbro.

You can read Don Murphy’s post here.

While rooting around on Paramount’s Transformers website we found these excellent Comic Con 1 sheets.

Staff Sgt. Kenny Kennemer has provided some news to TFW2005 about the involvement of 65 Airmen from Nellis Air Force Base. For find out more, read the full story here but beware of SPOILERS.