Michael Clarke Duncan, who had previously been reported as having signed up for the Transformers movie, is not going to appear in the film.

“It wasn’t for lack of trying though. Believe me, trust me when I say I wanted to do that movie. I’m a big kid at heart. I watched Transformers. That was one of my favorite cartoons. Optimus Prime was one of my favorite characters and to be head of a Navy SEAL team going in and fighting these gigantic robots would have been perfect.”

Over at AICN Harry Knowels is reporting that Michael Bay dose not want to hire the original voice cast for the TF live action movie. Instead he want to hire Hollywood Stars.

Just how long as Don Murphy been waiting to do Transformers? We’ve been sent a link to IMDB showing a screenshot from one of Don’s early films, Double Dragon, and in the background you can clearly see a cameo from the noblist Autobot of them all. Check it out here

Thanks to Bres for the heads up.

Rumours about a potential director for the Transformers movie in the form of Newcastle born, Resident Evil and Event Horizon director Paul Anderson, are out and about from someone who claims to have worked with
him at Abbey Road Studios, London.  Of course, it could be a load of old fish socks, but it seems plausible.

Check out Seibertron’s rumours sections here for more details.

A slide show of 3 images have appeared on youtube.com, showing Optimus Prime in robot mode, an emergency vehicle, most likely Ratchet and part of Optimus Prime’s leg for the Transformers movie.

Ain’t it Cool News have visited the Transformers movie set in the desert of New Mexico and have provided a lengthy report:

Being TRANSFORMERS and, maybe even more to blame, a Michael Bay movie, there was a huge crew and they were all at Chili’s. Walking up we passed a group of actors, including Josh Duhamel and Zack Ward, who had had enough and were going back to the hotel. The place was rowdy, with grips, stunties and transpo people slugging away at the bar, as grips, stunties and transpo coordinators will do.

Michael Bay has finally signed on to Direct the live action transformers movie.

The official website for the United States Air Force has released an article on the filming that has been going on at Holloman Air Force Base recently. Here’s a short extract

As posted by Zero * in our forums, Don Murphy has updated his site with news of a writer for Transformers

Hey there here’s what we got—-

Transformers- we’re cloing in on a writer and choosing to go with a younger guy who grew up with the mythology.like all of you fans. Should be announced in the coming weeks. Dreamworks and Spielberg very much still want the film for Summer ’06 so it’ll be hard- but GOOD.

Check out his thread on his own site here

Don’t worry, it isn’t one of the rubbish cross-over movies that should never be touched. It is the fact that 20th Century Fox have decided to premier “Live Free Or Die Hard”, the latest Die Hard film, on 29th June, 5 days before the opening of the Transformers movie.