Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)

Transformers 3 is an unnamed film, presumably the third, in the live-action film series.

Transformers 3 (actual title to follow) is scheduled to be released on July 1, 2011.

Confirmed information

• June 20th, 2009 — Michael Bay will be returning to directing duties.

• June 30th, 2009 — Ramon Rodriguez will be returning as Leo Spitz in a larger role.

• October 1st, 2009 — "Day One" of preproduction work. A story has apparently already been worked out. The day began with a meeting between Bay and Industrial Light & Magic which was followed by Bay and writer Ehren Kruger flying to Rhode Island to meet with Hasbro about new characters. Bay confirmed a proposed release date of July 1st, 2011.

• October 6th, 2009 — Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will not be returning to write the film. All writing duties were given to Ehren Kruger.

• Michael Bay stated on the video played at the end of the Revenge of the Fallen Blu-ray AllSpark Experiment game that the third film will go deeper into the Transformers' history (cue lots of Unicron imagery from Transformers: The Ultimate Guide) and that it will have more screentime for Bumblebee. But it did say in the message that he'll say lies...

• January 5, 2010 — James Avery confirms he will be playing a new Autobot named Silverbolt. No word on if this is the same character as ROTF Silverbolt.

• February 7, 2010 —Tony Todd says he'll be back in some capacity

• March 2, 2010 — Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are going to get updated/revised designs that in Bumblebee's case reflects his maturation.

• March 22, 2010 — Michael Bay announced that Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, and Ken Jeong had joined the cast, as well as the Ferrari 458 Italia would become the "newest Autobot."

• April 7, 2010 - Variety reported that Kevin Dunn and Julie White will be returning as Sam Witwicky's parents.

• April 27, 2010 - Tony Todd hinted at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo 2010 that he would be playing a human character.

• May 4, 2010 - Paramount Pictures confirmed that Patrick Dempsey has been cast in Transformers 3 to play Mikeala Banes' boss.

Main cast

Autobots	*Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) Bumblebee Silverbolt (James Avery)	Black Dodge Charger SRT-8 Megatron Starscream Soundwave	Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) Leo Spitz (Ramon Rodriguez) Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) William Lennox (Josh Duhamel) Robert Epps (Tyrese Gibson) Ron Witwicky (Kevin Dunn) Judy Witwicky (Julie White)

Notes

• A 126-page script for the movie was leaked , causing much discussion among the fandom. It was later confirmed as fake.