MTV have revealed that The Office star, Rainn Wil­son, will be play­ing a Uni­ver­sity Pro­fes­sor in Trans­form­ers 2:

“I play a col­lege pro­fes­sor,” he told MTV before jok­ingly adding, “that turns into a robot, and turns into a car.”

Prepa­ra­tion at the Steel Works site has begun, and the first images of the area have started to appear online.

It is thought that most of the shoot­ing will be on the west­ern side. A con­cept car not seen before shall be used dur­ing the shoot, and rumors sug­gest this could be a Trans­former, two Black­hawk heli­copters will also be in use. Addi­tion­ally, a car hauler with “2 Sat­urns and 5 chines styled cop cars” has been spot­ted on loca­tion. The Chi­nese sym­bols read only “Import / Entrance”, “Export / Exit”, “Dock­ing”, etc. — vehi­cle imports we can assume?

Pic­tures and infor­ma­tion come via TLAMB and TFW2005.

Via Movie Hole:

Sounds like those robots-in-disguise might be chas­ing down some bikers?

A cast­ing call just arrived in my inbox adver­tis­ing for a “female motor­cy­cle rider” to do a days work on “Transformers”.

This “Very Attrac­tive Female Actor Under 30 Years Old” must “have exten­sive experience/training in rid­ing motorcycles”.

The actress would be a day-player.

Via Heery Cast­ing:

Lit­tle Per­son needed for “Trans­form­ers 2″
We are look­ing for a Male Lit­tle Per­son , age 30–65, any eth­nic­ity, for a fea­tured role in the Dream­works pro­duc­tion of “Trans­form­ers 2.“
Shoot­ing will be in the Philadel­phia area in the month of June.
This is a fea­tured role, we will see both SAG and non-SAG for this. (We will waiver for this)

If inter­ested and avail­able, please send a CANDID pic­ture of your­self (not a head­shot) to:
tr2​philadelphia@​gmail.​com
Please attach the pic­ture as a .jpg and put “Lit­tle per­son” in the sub­ject line.

No Phone calls please.
May 30 2008

TRANSFORMERS 2 EXTRAS
If you missed the open call for TRANSFORMERS 2, you may still sub­mit a picture.

Needed are union and Non-Union back­ground men and women, ages 18–70, all eth­nic­i­ties, for scenes set in Philadel­phia PA, and Prince­ton NJ. Shoot­ing will take place in June 2008.

Col­lege age men and women are espe­cially needed. No act­ing expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary; both SAG and non-union tal­ent will be con­sid­ered. All roles are paid positions.

Please sub­mit a CURRENT pic­ture of your­self to: tr2​philadelphia@​gmail.​com
Your photo must be in .jpg for­mat.
If your head­shot is older than one year, do NOT send it. Instead, send a recent snap­shot — that has you alone in the pic­ture – a close-up is pre­ferred (no party pic­tures hold­ing a beer…)
Your pic­ture must be attached as a “.jpeg” file.
Be sure to include all con­tact infor­ma­tion, height and weight and SAG num­ber (if you have one) in the body of the e-mail.

Please state if you are avail­able for Philadel­phia and/or Prince­ton.
NO phone calls please.
May 23 2008

TFLAB are report­ing, through a tip from “Gwen”, that Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Gen­er­a­tion) may be fea­tur­ing as a uni­ver­sity stu­dent in TF2.

Ver­i­zon Wire­less has released a trailer for mobile phones. It is a slightly altered ver­sion of the exist­ing third trailer, with new footage and dia­logue. You can view it at You Tube here.

The release date for the sound­track has been announced. It will be released on July 15th. More infor­ma­tion can be found here.

Warner Bros. Records will release four dif­fer­ent con­fig­u­ra­tions of The Dark Knight sound­track: a stan­dard jewel case CD, a 2 LP set of heavy-weight 180 gram vinyl ver­sion, a spe­cial edi­tion digi­pack, and a collector’s edi­tion with spe­cial art­work to come after release.

Body By Milk has added a new “got milk?” ad, with Bat­man sport­ing the ‘stache. Check out their web­site for details on a con­test whereby you can be inserted in to an actual Bat­man comic. There’s also a nice wid­get, as well as a wall­pa­per and buddy icon of the ad.

And here is the ad:

Chris­t­ian Bale has been fea­tured on the cover of Details (a men’s mag­a­zine on the order of Vogue, for those not in the know). The arti­cle fea­tures an inter­view where he talks a lit­tle about his role as Bat­man, and his ini­tial reac­tion to the Bat­suit itself:

“I was stand­ing on the back lot where they were cre­at­ing the suit, and I had a few min­utes to myself, star­ing up close in the mir­ror, just think­ing, ‘This isn’t going to work. I’m claus­tro­pho­bic, I can’t breathe, I’m get­ting a headache already, and this is all going to go very badly.’”

He also com­ments on Heath Ledger’s per­for­mance as the Joker:

“He was incred­i­bly intense in his per­for­mance but incred­i­bly mel­low and laid-back. Cer­tainly there was this great anar­chis­tic streak to it—just get­ting dirt­ier than anybody’s envi­sioned the Joker before. This char­ac­ter has power because he has no limits—absolutely noth­ing to lose.”

Read the full inter­view here, at men.style.com’s The Gad­about blog.

Thanks Jenny Stein!