It has now been revealed that when Shia had his recent drink-drive accident from which he required extensive surgery on his left hand, keeping him off the set of Transformers Return of the Fallen for one month, he had a passenger in the car at the time which was none other than his Transformers co-star the 23-year old Australian actress Isabel Lucas. Lucas was treated for minor injuries at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in L.A.

Credit to Entertainment Tonight.

TransformersLive.blogspot.com have posted some images from the San Pedro set of Transformers Return of the Fallen. They photographs show Optimus Prime, Ironhide, the Ice Cream Truck and some NEST vehicles.

Looks like Shia LaBeouf's troubles with the law are continuing again today as he's now been arrested for a Drink Driving offence, involving a road accident.  This is the third time he has been in trouble with the law, unless you count the run-in with Barricade, though shouldn't effect shooting of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

The BBC report

Transformers and Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a road accident in Hollywood, US authorities have said.

Mr LaBeouf was the driver of a vehicle which crashed in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

The actor and his passenger were hurt in the collision, but it is unclear how serious their injuries were.

A spokesman said police officers arrested the 22-year-old at the scene.

The incident took place at 0300 local time (1100 BST).

Mr LaBeouf, who has not yet been charged, recently starred in Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull alongside Harrison Ford.

He also starred in the recent Transformers movie.

Last November he was arrested for refusing to leave a pharmacy in Chicago, blaming the incident on "complete and utter insanity". Charges were later dropped.

He later told chat show host David Letterman: "Drinking and driving is one thing, but drinking and shopping - it's just as bad."

In April, charges against him for breaking a smoking ban were dismissed by a Californian judge.

”I can confirm that I am working on Transformers 2 - Revenge Of The Fallen and have been given the same job on set, voicing the Autobots for the actors, and have already done some voiceover work in the studio as well. It’s a privilege to work with the cast and crew again, it's very exciting and we are having a great time. I cannot comment on details about the film or the script, but there are some new characters that fans will love.”

That's what Mark Ryan told Seibertron.com

In an interview with Sci-Fi.com, Megan Fox has spoken about her role in the second live action Transformers Movie, Transformers: Revenge of the fallen and how the movie is crazier than the first "by like a hundred [fold]".

When asked about injuries, Megan replied "I'm doing good, I've had like four injuries so far. So I'm accumulating the injuries and just going on with it. It's fun. It's what it is. It's a Michael Bay movie."

Some of the injuries came from a scene with Bumblebee which Mega describes as a different Bumblebee. "There's a different Bumblebee, the yellow one that you see in the movie, that we drive, I don't drive it, but it drives at like 120 miles an hour, and we're in it with no seat belts or harnesses or anything. It's, if we die, we die, all in the name of Transformers (laughs)."

Miss Fox explains that the story of Mikaela and Sam Witwicky picks up two years after the events of the first movie. "It's sort of like a jump, It's two years from when you last saw us, obviously, because it's matching with when the movie comes out. We're college age, and our relationship ... we just get together in the last one. And so you miss all of that new relationship. There's no love scenes, no big hookup in the end. That's all, sort of, in the past. Because we've been together for years now. So we're just together, hanging out, doing what we got to do to ... That's all I can say!".

In a spoiler, she spoke of how her character, Mikaela, has remained in Los Angeles while Sam has gone off to college in the east. "We're shooting in L.A. for the next few weeks.[Previously ] we were in Philadelphia and New Jersey on the East Coast. We're only now in our fifth week of filming, so we're here for a few weeks. ... I'm not in college. Shia's character's in college. I'm back home."

"During a break on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — described to us as a "remote air force base" at an "undisclosed location" — horror franchise reviver and blockbuster director extraordinaire Michael Bay hopped on the phone to give us the scoop on the Transformers sequel, his other projects in the works, and his reaction to that Dark Knight script circling the Internet with his name on it...

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."

Credit to MichaelBay.com for the news

Roberto Orci, co-writer of Michael Bay's upcoming sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has spoken to SCI FI Wire regarding the project tell them that "the movie will feature more of the giant robots and more of a science fiction storyline."

"The humor will be similar, but the structure of the movie is a little bit more like many sequels, which is, the stakes are a little higher and the tone is a bit more sci-fi," Orci said in an interview at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 14. "It's got a little more of a sci-fi element. ... The bad guys are little more coherent in terms of what their plan is and what they're attempting to do. So it feels more like more of a sci-fi battle."

For those hoping to see more Transformers screen time Roberto's comment on that has a slightly negative ring to it using the phrase kinda of more.  Here's a quote."The first movie was predicated on the structure of a mystery, at which point, at the midpoint, the Transformers are revealed. This movie is structured differently in that you now know there are Transformers in the world, and therefore you can get right to them. As a result, there's kind of more Transformers throughout the movie".

When asked about Arcee Orci replied "[she] was in an early draft of the first movie, and she may make an appearance, we'll see".  When asked about Soundwave he replied "Yes, Soundwave's in it".

The article ends with the following quote:

"If you liked the first one, you'll like this one," he said. "But if you were a genuine fan of what Transformers was and felt a little bit left behind by the first one, I think this one's going to be more for you." 

Larry Carroll has written an article for both MTV / VH1 entitled "Transformers 2 Co-Star Matthew Marsden Leaks Info On Sequel's Bot Batles" with the subheading "The British actor describes the multi-national task force defending the world from Decepticons".

The article starts with Mr Marsden speaking about is personal history with Transformers.

"It was one of the comic books I used to get,...[snip] ..I was an avid comic book reader as a kid; I used to get literally one every day. I'd get Spider-Man,' 'X-Men,' mainly all the Marvel comics, and Saturday was 'Transformers' day. ... I was a real big fan of 'Transformers,' and I went opening day to see the first [Michael Bay movie]. I loved it. I thought Shia was amazing. He's a very talented actor, and I think they did all the Transformers justice.  [snip] Like everyone else,I want to see more.".

He then goes on to speak a little about his character Graham.

"I'm part of a multi-national force.  What's going on right now is I'm a British Special Forces officer that's attached to Lennox's team. Well, there's two of us initially. And we're battling the bad guys.".  Revealing that his character's action scenes "hit it straight from the very beginning," Marsden said that Graham is a very intense character based on real British Special Forces officers. "I just try to be real," he said. "My character is not an amusing character. He's a soldier, so all the stuff that I did is very much rooted in reality and what I know from the experiences of my friends [who are in the military]. So, it's just very real and nothing über-spectacular. We went to Pennsylvania and shot at the Bethlehem Steel Plant, which was really amazing," he recalled, discussing a moment when the soldiers battle a Decepticon. "We had this scene where it's, like, 'That's where he is!' and you have to shoot at him. 'He's going that way!' It's quite a far distance away, so we had to use a laser pointer [to stand in for the robot]. It's all fun; I love that stuff. There are bad guys there and we have to go and get them," he said of the scene. "That's basically it.".

Marsden explains how his character is introducted in the film "Tyrese and I work together; we're part of a team, so it's certainly implied that we've been working together for some time since the last one," he said. "U.S. Special Ops guys go off in the army and work with the British army, and it's interchangeable, and we all work from similar playbooks. ... We're a multi-national force that will go wherever it takes."

When asked if he shot any scenes with either Shia LaBEouf or Megan Fox, Matthew replied  "No, no I haven't [met them] because I'm part of Lennox's team. So, we go off and we do our thing separately. We're the military unit — they're doing their other things."going on to explain that the film's plot segments into separate story lines, much like the opening of the original movie.  Though he does hold out hope that he has not received all of his script pages yet and that they will eventually come together. "They're working with the Autobots, [so] they're definitely going to know some of the strengths and weaknesses of different robots," he said. "So, if they're working together with an alien life-form, which they didn't initially, then obviously they're going to know more. In the first one, they were actually finding out what they were because they didn't know. ... Now they're aware of what they are, and we're part of the task force specifically to go and deal with them. ... I just know that I've got a big chunk to come, and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of action in it."

Matthew explains that with the death of Megatron, Starscream returns to Cybertron and then comes back to Earth with reinforcements confirming that "They're going to be bringing more Transformers in," Marsden revealed. "And there's definitely [some] in the scene that we do, different Transformers, so fans should be very excited.".

The article ends with Matthew explaining that his characters role was beefed-up in the film after he met with Michael Bay and the two fo them hit it off.  "I just went in and met with Michael, read the lines.  We got to talking about other things, and Michael and I just hit it off. Michael's a big fan of the military, and I'm a big fan of the military, we both support the troops. ... He apparently has ramped the character up for me. I know I don't die; that's as much as I know so far, so that can't be bad, can it?"

Rakuten has updated it's listings for Transformers Binal Tech 22 Convoy to show that the dfigure has been postponed, with no update on when the toy to be released. BT Arcee appears un-affected.

Click here for the original lisitng

The San Diego Comic-Con will be held from July 23-27.

A few days ago, a poster surfaced online which was reported as a possible poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. At the time we posted a warning that the image could be fake, which was highly likely with the CGI work not yet complete. Now a Polish fan has posted on the Don Murphy boards confirming them as fake.

You can read his post here

A photograph taken on a mobile phone has made it onto the internet showing what appears to be a poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The poster, which may well be fake, shows a robotic head (possibly the new face for Megatron) and the tag line "Invasion begins" at the top.

Thanks to Seibertron for the original link