Empire Magazine and USAToday offered up articles with some information about the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Without getting to spoilery IESB.net offers.
The biggest news is the lack of Megatron. I hope he is just trying to throw us off the scent and we see a rebuilt tanky Megatron in this film. They rebuilt Jazz for fuck sakes. Why not Megatron??
Transformers Live Action Movie Blog had a breakdown of the info shared in the article –
- Bay and LaBeouf confirm the Fallen is a separate character.
- Egyptian hieroglyphics …turn out to be depictions of Transformers who visited Earth.
- Bay claims Megatron is not coming back and the tank is just a new toy.
- Around 40 robots.
- Budget is $200 million.
- Ramon Rodriguez is the one holding on for dear life to a pole while cars are flung (Empire TF2 Image).
- Devastator appears at the pyramid, he’s probably 50 feet tall because that’s the height of the camera crane they used on location.
And I am all for having more bots, but 40? I hope that most of them make up background shots to establish that there are a bunch of them all over the earth and they gather together to fight the Fallen.
I like that they are going with a lesser known story to tie in the live action versions of the characters, but no Megatron? Seriously?
Source: The Movie Blog