A pro­mo­tional newslet­ter released by Dolby for this year’s ShoW­est con­tains a list of upcom­ing 3D fea­ture films in 2009 — at the very bot­tom is Trans­form­ers 2, amongst Avatar and Tintin.

Via Comics2film

Moviehole spoke with Rachael Tay­lor and con­firmed that she will not be appear­ing in the sequel:

“I wasn’t con­tracted for a sequel any­way, but I also think it would be pretty ridicu­lous for my char­ac­ter just to show up and say ‘We’ve got some more com­put­ers to play with!’.

More impor­tantly, I don’t think I’d wanna do it to be hon­est, and not for any par­tic­u­lar rea­son other than the fact that I’ve done it. I’m just drawn to doing dif­fer­ent things. It was the same when I went to the U.S, I didn’t want to do TV, because I’d done it. I want to be able to mix it up all the time.”

Well, that’s that.

In a very brief post on his blog “Shoot for the Edit”, Michael Bay responded to claims about Jonah and Teresa Palmer:

No we have stopped nego­ti­at­ing with Jonah, and Teresa Palmer was not con­sid­ered for a role — you have wrong info.

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Isabel Lucas’ man­age­ment agency, Meiss­ner Man­age­ment, has listed Isabel as a cast mem­ber of the Trans­form­ers sequel:

ISABEL LUCAS
NEW — Fea­ture Film “TRANSFORMERS 2” Dream­Works US Pro­duc­tion. Role of ALICE.

Alice is not listed in the cast break­down we saw leaked a short while back.

/Film have been tipped off about a pos­si­ble film shoot at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia (Sam Witwicky will be in college):

I’m a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and a few of my friends involved in stu­dent gov­ern­ment told me that Trans­form­ers 2 will be shoot­ing on cam­pus in one of the nicer fra­ter­ni­ties this sum­mer. Im guess­ing these scenes will involve Shia/Jonah at col­lege. Michael Bay was also seen on cam­pus a few weeks back, so I guess that sort of con­firms that the film will be par­tially shot here. Thought you might like to know.

Rumors have recently put Super­bad star, Jonah Hill, in con­tention as Shia LaBoeuf’s room­mate in the Trans­form­ers sequel, as described by some leaked cast­ing descrip­tions:

[CHUCK] 19–25 yrs., Sam’s room­mate at Prince­ton. He runs a con­spir­acy the­ory web­site. Funny in an irrev­er­ent, edgy way, he is shocked to see his con­spir­acy the­o­ries come to life. (2nd Lead)

How­ever, Enter­tain­ment Weekly are report­ing that talks between Hill and Dream­Works have bro­ken down and shall not be Sam Witwicky’s comic sidekick.

Moviehole are report­ing that Teresa Palmer, for­merly part of the trou­bled Jus­tice League movie. No infor­ma­tion as to what her role shall entail, we’ll have to wait and see.

In a Star Trek ques­tion and answer ses­sion with Roberto Orci, a small tid­bit about the Trans­form­ers 2 script was revealed,

Orci and Kurtz­man were released from ‘Michael Bay Jail’ (which turns out to be a lux­ury hotel on the Pacific Coast) on Fri­day, after fin­ish­ing the first draft for Trans­form­ers 2

There is at least one Star Trek ref­er­ence in Trans­form­ers 2