The lengthy bit of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen footage that screened at ShoWest found its way online last week via a site no less official than MichaelBay.com. Above is a cool screencap from the footage of a Megatron battle — yep, the same Megatron that Bay has been insisting doesn’t appear in the movie. [...]
Frank Welker, the voice of Megatron in the original Transformers animated series, may lend his voice to one of the Autobots in Revenge of the Fallen.
When the first movie came out, Michael Bay landed Peter Cullen to reprise the voice of Optimus Prime but passed over Welker for Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta). Weaving will [...]
Michael Bay should really just give it up. He doesn’t do secrecy well. He’s not J.J. Abrams. His attempts at misinformation are badly delivered, easily refuted, and only make him look stupid.
He announced a while back that Megatron would not appear in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — and everyone immediately called B.S. after pointing [...]
Remember when Michael Bay said Megatron definitely wasn’t going to be in Revenge of the Fallen, but toy box art clearly showed he was lying?
Further proof comes from two separate sources this week. The first is from screenwriter Roberto Orci himself, who flatly contradicted Bay by saying on a message board “Megatron returns! Keep it [...]
I guess this is one of the pitfalls of leading a franchise that was, no negativity meant, only ever created to help sell toys.
Transformers director Michael Bay told Empire Magazine recently that Megatron would not, he promised, be in Revenge of the Fallen. And “that’s not misinformation.”
Thanks for being straight with us, Mr. Bay…except…Slashfilm just [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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