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	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.