Michael Bay has recently been interviewed by MTV regarding Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.  You can read the article as well as watch a video by visiting the MTV website.  Within the interview Mr Bay talks about his loathing of Arcee as well as "big-ing" up The Fallen, Bumblebee and the Twins Skids and Mudflap who he describes as "young and dumb".

If you've not recently visited the Hasbro Trademarks area of this website you may have missed out on the news that several of the "alternative titles" (which was exclusively reported here first) for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen that Hasbro applied for have now been abandoned with the USPTO. The marks were:­

1. ­RETURN OF THE DECEPTICONS
   
2. REVENGE OF THE DECEPTICONS
3. REVENGE OF UNICRON
4. MATRIX OF LEADERSHIP

Michael Bay has posted a new thread over on his message board regarding the "60 days" they have left in order to finish work on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.  In the post Michael makes mention to the reaction of Steven Spielberg after they both sat down to watch his (Mr Bay that is) cut of Revenge of the Fallen as well as announcing that the trailer for the film will come out attached to the Wolverine: Origins movie. 

"Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said
"It's awesome". He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it. I'm going to start putting it in front of audiences in a few weeks - no you are not invited, yet.

We have 60 days left. Let me tell you it will be a race to finish. It's 12 at night and we are still working here in the edit room. Everyone at ILM and DD are killing themselves right now, they are doing a stellar job on the effects. We also just finished our trailer which is coming out with Wolverine. Talk to you soon.

Michael"

Several websites have recently been reporting "news" from a twitter account claiming to be Michael Bay.  Well the man himself has spoken on his own message board to shoot down the twitter account by simply posting "Twitter. Never. What a waste of time.".

So thre you have it, ignore any news you've read on other sites regarding this twitter account.  Its fake.

High resolution official images of the main Transformers from Revenge of the Fallen have been posted on the internet.  Some of the images have been seen before and are the stock images that will be used on magazines to promote the Movie, game and other tie-in merchandise.  It'll also probably be used for and T-shirts and stickers.  You can view all of the un-watermarked images below.

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­Thanks to J-Dwag for emailing through the images­

The BBFC have posted several recent rating entries for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, mainly connected to the tie-in computer game from Activision.

On the 3rd April they rated this dvd collection as PG.  Its from Activision and contains Transformers Revenge of the Fallen cut scenes and gameplay footage as well as all three parts of the Transformers Generation One episodes "The Ultimate Doom".

On the 7th April the BBFC rated Future Publishing PSM 113 disc as a 15 which also includes some Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen content.  The same publishers XBox World 360 also has a similar cover disc rated as 15 as well.  Both of these publications follow on from last months 15 rating given to Future Publishings PSW coverdisc that also contained some Revenge of the Fallen content.

For those wondering about the actual movie, the only BBFC rating for that was on the 12th Feb when they rated the teaser trailer as PG for UK audiences.

­You can view some video reviews that were posted on YouTube by Peaugh for the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Chromia, Dune Runner and Leader class Megatron by using the plug-ins below.

Michael Bay has has told MTV.com what is in store for one of the characters from the second live action Transformers Movie, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.  Is the story true or not, well you'll have to wait to find out.

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Michael Bay explains that he didn't like the development of Arcee's charcter during the movie and so she is killed off.

One of the biggest news stories going around at the moment covers the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen character information which was appeared on Michael Bay's blog, on USA Today and on Yahoo Movies.  All three posts were made on April Fools Day, 1st April, so it could be that some of the information contained within in is just a well put together April Fools joke.

Read on to see the information and make up your own minds.

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Yahoo Movies

Michael Bay's Blog

By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

It's always the quiet ones you need to fear.

Ninjas. Serial killers. Boba Fett. Gastrointestinal functions.

In Transformers lore, the mechanical jaguar Ravage has been a villain favorite since the 1980s for his stealthy tactics and deadly force. Ever since a four-legged mechanical beast prowled through the trailer for summer's sequel, Revenge of The Fallen, fans have been awaiting more word about the feline-ish Decepticon. As more robots in the June 24 movie are revealed, Ravage comes into focus.

"In the spirit of 'more than meets the eye,' Ravage isn't just lethal because of his sharp teeth," says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. "There's actually another skill set Ravage has that didn't exist before, so there's going to be a surprise for fans."

This version of the cat already looks far different from the original, with a single glowing red eye and a swinging, mace-like tail, but his role will be similar to the 1980s cartoon and Hasbro toy — the ultimate spy.

Ravage often was dispatched to monitor the heroic Autobots and their human allies, reporting back to the Decepticons by transforming into a cassette tape and replaying his recordings through the larger robot master Soundwave, who switched into a Walkman-sized tape deck. (How a giant robot became a small piece of sound equipment was a comical hole in logic never fully explained.)

The cassette tape transformation is gone, of course; Ravage doesn't turn into anything. But Soundwave will appear, again serving as an evil communications expert but this time in the form of an orbiting space satellite.

"They are still connected," fellow screenwriter Roberto Orci says of Soundwave and his pet. "But rather than trying to hold onto a notion as antiquated as an audiotape, which some members of our audience have maybe never laid eyes on, we wanted to go a new way."

And Ravage, as before, won't speak like the other Transformers.

"We wanted to stay true to the idea that Decepticons who take visual clues from beasts maintain that," says Orci. "It would be strange to have a talking jaguar, or a scorpion with an English accent."

Filmmaker Michael Bay has ensured that Ravage has lots of company, including many redesigned favorite robots from the original 1980s incarnation, in the new film.

"We have big guys, some little guys. We have a lot of littler ones, too. Little weirder ones," Bay says. Like the Insecticons, which were giant bugs in the original series and Hasbro toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators.

Bay, who collects the Vanguard Award Thursday night at ShoWest, offers a peek at others joining Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for another rock-'em, sock-'em robo-brawl.

AUTOBOTS (the good guys)

Jetfire:

As in the original, this fighter plane crash-landed on Earth a long time ago, and he will become a reformed Decepticon now fighting for the humans. His alternate form is the SR-71 Blackbird, the outdated but still-sleek Cold War spy plane.

"He's old, craggy, forgetful ... doesn't work very well. Can't transform very well, because he's very geriatric. They get stuck with him a lot," Bay says. "He knows the plan of the bad guys, but he forgets all the good parts of the plan."

New recruits:

Sideswipe, a candy-apple red Lamborghini in the original, joins the cast this time as General Motor's silver Corvette Stingray concept car. Jolt is a new foot soldier, played in four-wheel form by the Volt, a forthcoming Chevy hybrid plug-in. Two of GM's other concept cars (the Trax and Beat) play The Twins, nicknamed Skids and Mudflap.

"Some of the junior Transformers are just dumb," Bay says with a laugh. "But it's great for kids because they're like the Little Engine That Could. They're (screw)-ups, but they get really heroic at the end."

For the gals:

Arcee is the only female and turns up as Megan Fox's hot-pink motorcycle. Co-screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci say she was in an early draft of the first movie. "But we felt we needed to win the audience over before asking for that suspension of disbelief: a feminine alien robot," Kurtzman says.

DECEPTICONS (the bad guys)

The title character:

The Fallen is an ancient robot, sort of the Transformers' version of Lucifer. He's one of the original robot aliens, and his defiance and arrogance led to his banishment into another dimension.

The screenwriters say that The Fallen holds the key to life on both Earth and Cybertron, the Transformers' home planet.

Other troublemakers:

A smaller, but no less malevolent Decepticon is known as The Doctor — a spider-like droid that transforms into various implements of torture and has a not-so-nice encounter with star Shia LaBeouf.

Then there's a giant one called Demolishor, and another tinier one with the sportier name of Wheelie.

Constructicons:

These seven robots — Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster — transform into construction machinery, but also link up with one another to form one gigantic robot stomper named Devastator.

"He's made of vehicles designed to build, and he turns into is someone who loves to destroy," Orci says. "He is an agent of absolute chaos."

Bay says Devastator is the crème de la smash and got a uncharacteristic reaction out of the film's executive producer already.

"Spielberg saw it and said, 'This is (expletive) awesome!' " Bay says, and adds: "It's always nice when you can make him swear."

Source: USAToday

The TF Live Movie blog has been updated with some information that former Blink-182 drummer, Travis Barker, has been working on a song for Buster Rhymes which he says is set to appear in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Roberto Orci has posted an intested message on TFW2005 stating that he has spoken to Star Trek legend and voide of Galvatron from Transformers The Movie, Leonard Nimoy regarding voicing The Fallen in the 2009 Transformers Movie Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Mr Orci also states that fans have called for Frank Welker to voice The Fallen, which contridicts the news posted by Michael Bay that Mr Welker could be inline to voice Soundwave.

Hey Bob, what are your feelings towards the idea of Leonard Nimoy doing the voice of the Fallen?

- Would love it. I actually talked to him about it, given the odd coincidence that he is Michael Bay's cousin through marriage, but fan outcry has also put [Frank] Welker in the running.

Roberto Orci has posted an intested message on TFW2005 stating that he has spoken to Star Trek legend and voide of Galvatron from Transformers The Movie, Leonard Nimoy regarding voicing The Fallen in the 2009 Transformers Movie Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Mr Orci also states that fans have called for Frank Welker to voice The Fallen, which contridicts the news posted by Michael Bay that Mr Welker could be inline to voice Soundwave.

Hey Bob, what are your feelings towards the idea of Leonard Nimoy doing the voice of the Fallen?

- Would love it. I actually talked to him about it, given the odd coincidence that he is Michael Bay's cousin through marriage, but fan outcry has also put [Frank] Welker in the running.

Thanks to Linthart from Ozformers for posting several images of the upcoming Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Leader Class Jetfire toy.