ET have been speak­ing with Robert Downey Jr. about The Soloist and Iron Man 2. He reveals,

“The film is almost entirely about char­ac­ter, and yet we still have twice as much action as we did last time, so it’s going to be nuts. […] Essen­tially ‘Iron Man 2′ is about look­ing behind the armor, or the arma­ture, of a super­hero. It’s one thing to say you’re Iron Man, it’s another thing to be fully ready to do that.”

As for Scar­lett Johansson,

“We’ve been rehears­ing and she’s in insane shape. She’s get­ting lean and mean.”

RDJ has also been speak­ing to MTV about poten­tial Iron Man 2 storylines:

“I think [Demon in a Bot­tle is] prob­a­bly best saved, because it’s such its own sto­ry­line,” Downey told MTV. “We’re going for the interim space [between the ori­gin and Demon], which is more a look behind the mask of some­one who says he’s Iron Man and what it really is to become a superhero.”

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This story has spoil­ers, if you hadn’t already guessed. Michael Bay has been speak­ing to MTV about Trans­form­ers 2 and reveals a character’s death. Spoiler after the break…

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Jon Favreau has been twit­ter­ing again, this time reveal­ing that the full cast has now arrived in LA and that shoot­ing shall begin on Monday:

More train­ing. Start shoot­ing Mon­day. Last of cast has arrived in LA.

Quint from AICN was on hand at ShoW­est to see the Trans­form­ers 2 footage that aired as part of Michael Bay’s Van­guard Award accep­tance. Cry­ing Bum­ble­bee with Washer screen fluid?

The full scene was Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox going into Sam’s parent’s garage to talk with Bum­ble­bee, who is, appar­ently, still hav­ing trou­ble with his voice­box. He’s able to cough up a few sta­t­icy words, but still com­mu­ni­cates mostly through pop songs (lame).

Shia tells Bum­ble­bee that he’s going away to col­lege and can’t bring him along. Fresh­men aren’t allowed to have cars at his col­lege, appar­ently, and Sam doesn’t need pro­tec­tion any­more any­way, he says.

As he talks with Bum­ble­bee, Fox is out­side… we see that the Witwicky house is being repaired… so I take it this isn’t too long after the first one or there was a bit of action that hap­pened prior to this clip.

Any­way, Fox stips out of her black leather pants and jacket, reveal­ing a dress… Prom? Some­thing. But Megan Fox strip­ping is a-okay for what­ever reason.

Back in the garage, Bum­ble­bee isn’t tak­ing the news well, dra­mat­i­cally cry­ing (window-washer liq­uid) and wav­ing his arms. This could have actu­ally been fairly emo­tional. LaBeouf is play­ing the scene that way, but the robot is so over the top I don’t know if it was sup­posed to be a comic scene or not.

So, the scene wasn’t all that great, but the mon­tage of action was fuck­ing awe­some, as I’m sure Bay would say. We get a look at the Dev­as­ta­tor (mas­sive and pretty sweet) knock­ing the hell out of Opti­mus. The shot is from far away and Opti­mus is fight­ing in a large, open grass field in bright day­light. He’s hit and sails through the air towards us, hit­ting the ground and rolling to a stop right at the cam­era. He sits up and spits out some­thing metal (robot tooth?).

There were quick flashes of a lot of cool action. There was a Decep­ti­con with giant saw blades that cuts a car in half, split­ting up Shia and Fox. There was a shot of a decep­ti­con bug being forced into Shia’s mouth… another shot was of a trans­former fly that Shia has pinched between his fin­gers… and a lot of quick big action scenes… a trans­former that is two giant wheels, ‘splo­sions, etc, etc.

Looks like more of the same so if you hated the first movie you prob­a­bly won’t like this one much more, but I hear that the action makes the first movie look like DRIVING MISS DAISY… and that Bay learned a few lessons from the first, focus­ing on the robots more than the humans this time out. I hope so.

And from SHH:

A lit­tle later, Michael Bay thrilled the packed ball­room with a scene from the Trans­form­ers sequel which involved Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky, Megan Fox’s Mikaela Banes and Bum­ble­bee. Sam opens the garage door to see Bum­ble­bee in robot form hit­ting him­self in the head try­ing to get his voice back. Sam tells the robot that he wants to talk about col­lege, to which Bum­ble­bee starts play­ing The Pointer Sis­ters’ “I’m So Excited” and danc­ing around, but Sam tells him that he’s not going to which the robot gives a heavy groan. Sam gives him a long speech why it’s best Bum­ble­bee doesn’t accom­pany him, while Mikaela runs out­side and starts to dis­robe (Yowza!)… no wait, she’s just chang­ing out­fits. Bum­ble­bee isn’t happy and he starts spray­ing water from his head as if he was cry­ing. Sam explains that he wants to go to col­lege and expe­ri­ence it like a nor­mal guy, but that Bum­ble­bee will always be his first car, etc. As he fin­ishes his sen­ti­men­tal speech, Sam turns and opens the garage door and Mikaela is stand­ing there in what appears to be a wed­ding dress hold­ing a pur­ple bou­quet of flowers.

After that dia­logue scene, what fol­lowed was a two minute mon­tage of some of the robot action from the movie giv­ing glimpses of almost all the Auto­bots and Decep­ti­cons we’ll be see­ing as well as The Fallen, most of them on screen slightly longer than the footage seen before. To be hon­est, it was cut together so quickly that only a diehard mega-fan might be able to see it and name every robot or fig­ure out exactly what was going on. Regard­less, it looks like Bay has done it again and any­one who liked the first movie should be suit­ably impressed with the sequel.

At the LG Trans­form­ers booth, amongst all the news about Trans­form­ers phones, there is a piece of the All Spark wrap­per up safely in a can­is­ter, as seen in the Offi­cially released movie screen­shot. Pic­ture from the booth comes via TLAMB:

Orig­i­nal LG press release explain­ing the tie-ins:

Vis­i­tors at the LG Mobile Phones booth (#4100, Cen­tral Hall) will have the oppor­tu­nity to meet renowned film direc­tor Michael Bay on Thurs­day, April 2, at 2:00PM (PDT) as he greets fans and signs posters from the new movie. LG Mobile Phones will also unveil design ren­der­ings of a LG lim­ited edi­tion “Trans­form­ers” Versa phone, which will be made avail­able only through con­sumer pro­mo­tions as part of their over­all movie tie-in campaign.

Prior to the film’s June 24 release, LG Mobile Phones will reveal adver­tis­ing, retail, online and other con­sumer elec­tron­ics ini­tia­tives uti­liz­ing the film as a key theme for the mar­ket­ing cam­paign. The LG lim­ited edi­tion “Trans­form­ers” Versa phone, along with the company’s pre­mium line of hand­sets, offers the lat­est in mobile tech­nol­ogy, allow­ing peo­ple to change their mobile life using one device. Many of these LG Mobile Phone prod­ucts were used dur­ing the mak­ing of the film.

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TF08 have posted some shots of the Voy­ager class Mega­tron toy:

Round two of offi­cial Revenge of the Fallen pho­tos have been released along­side the recent Trans­form­ers char­ac­ter news (view first set). They show Shia stand­ing in front of a pyra­mid, Megan Fox fallen to the floor and look­ing up and the group run­ning from an explo­sion and a con­trol room.

Click the images for a very nice high qual­ity ver­sion. Images thanks to Megan​-Fox​.net fansite.