Dwight Schrute Battles Megatron

It's not terribly surprising to learn that every principal figure is returning for Transformers 2. The surprise is that it took this long to set it up. Director Michael Bay: Back. We know, too, that Shia LaBeouf and the writers (at least in some capacity) are returning, and there have even been recent updates on the status of Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro, all of whom are back for another round. But it wouldn't be a sequel without someone new, and that someone, it appears, is Rainn Wilson. The man who brought beets back as Dwight K. Schrute on The Office will play a college professor in T2...oh, damn, someone already used that abbreviation before. Uh, can we go with 2ransformers? Anyway, Wilson will play Shia's college prof, although we don't know yet if he'll go on the run from the giant interplanetary robots or not. It's strong casting for a supporting player, in much the same way John Turturro really panned out in the first one. It should be a great move for Wilson, as well, who probably duplicated much of his Office audience with a brief appearance in Juno and is likely to do the same in this summer's The Rocker. Unquestionably 2ransformers will introduce him to millions of potential new viewers. There was talk in the past couple of weeks that Jonah Hill was also in discussions for the sequel, but apparently the two sides couldn't come to an agreement. Earlier, we mentioned that it's a surprise that a year has passed since the first movie and they're just getting the second one solidified. I actually believe that it speaks well for the franchise. They didn't rush what they clearly could have. Well before Transformers opened, you had a feeling a sequel would be in the offing. Clearly, everyone involved wanted to do it again, so why didn't they pull an Iron Man and announce a sequel three days after it was released? Well, Iron Man already has that story mapped out, at least in very general terms. They know where they want this thing to head. With Transformers, I don't know if Point B was as well established, but I think letting it come together slowly, seeing what the script looked like, making sure everyone who wanted to be involved could be involved, means there's a good chance we'll get a very solid sequel. Hopefully, they'll trim eight to ten minutes of giant Transformer war out of the end this time, but it's hard to have been a fan of the first one and not be excited about the way 2ransformers is being handled.

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[Will]

"Thats one diddle that can't be undid Bumblebee."
~Rumored line from Transformers after the trusty Camaro supposedly impregnates Megan Fox.

I heard that Jonah Hill has been cast too...any truth to that rumor?

[JMK]

No Jonah Hill in this sequel...look for penis-drawings on Transformerbots elsewhere...