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

Chud have con­firmed that John Voight (Defense Sec­re­tary John Keller) and Tyrese Gib­son will be repris­ing their roles in the movie sequel:

‘I just talked to Shia a sec­ond ago, and left John Voight a mes­sage 15 min­utes ago,’ he said, inad­ver­tently let­ting slip that Voight’s Sec­re­tary of Defense char­ac­ter returns for the sequel.

‘Michael Bay is going to up the ante on round two and raise the level. I can’t go into any details , but it’s going to be some real one of a kind things in this movie that no one has seen visu­ally in their life. Michael Bay is really fired up to try and outdo what he did on the first round.’

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

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.

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.

The IESB have thrown out their Trans­form­ers 2 robot roll call, and with it they state that the Decep­ti­cons shall have the help of the Con­struc­ti­cons in the sec­ond movie.

In the car­toons, their names were Scrap­per, Bonecrusher, Scav­enger, Mix­mas­ter, Hook and Long Haul. And what do we get when they all com­bine and form one huge ass robot? That’s right boys and girls, we are going to see DEVASTATOR on the big screen!

… I’ll re-iterate that. Dev­as­ta­tor is big.

Here’s a pretty awe­some fan mock-up of what Dev­as­ta­tor may look like in the movie, cre­ated by Rise Stu­dios. A cin­e­matic adap­ta­tion of this char­ac­ter shall prob­a­bly appear a lot more com­plex than this, to fit in with the style already set out by the first movie.

As for the human side of the argu­ment, IESB have posted up a prospec­tive char­ac­ter list which is now wait­ing to be cast:

[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)

[U.S. MILITARY LEADER] Late 20s/early 30s, African Amer­i­can with a great sense of humor and a tough mil­i­tary pres­ence. (Sup­port­ing lead)

[UK SPECIAL FORCES LEADER] British, in his early to mid 30s, smart and capa­ble. Can be Cau­casian, Black, East Indian. (Sup­port­ing lead)

[GALLOWAY] Early 40s-early 50s, male, National Secu­rity Advi­sor and pres­i­den­tial liai­son. A curt man who is tightly wound. (Sup­port­ing Lead)

[PROFESSOR COLAN] 40s, Sam’s physics pro­fes­sor at Prince­ton. He’s a self-satisfied intel­lec­tual who com­pares him­self to Ein­stein, and is arro­gant enough to wear leather pants to look cool. (1 Scene)

[THERESA] Early 30s; she’s Sgt. Epps’ wife, has 4 kids, sassy and sexy, good with com­edy. Sub­mit African Amer­i­can actresses only

[MOMMA SIMMONS] This NY Momma is in her late 60s / early 70s. She runs a deli/ butcher shop with her son in Brook­lyn. Tough and sar­cas­tic. (1 Scene)

[MASSIVE DYNAMICS CEO] 50s, male, this Cor­po­rate CEO appears in front of con­gress to tes­tify. (1 speech/scene)

[TEXAS CONGRESSMAN] 55–65 yrs., on a Con­gres­sional Com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the pur­pose of the “Auto­mated Defen­sive Ini­tia­tive” devel­oped by Mas­sive Dynamics.

[FBI DIRECTOR] Mid 50s, male, giv­ing a press release assur­ing the pub­lic they will be safe against attacks. (1 speech/scene)

[CNN REPORTER] Report­ing on mis­sile strikes and bomb­ings in var­i­ous cities. Sub­mit male / female, all eth­nic­i­ties (1 speech)

Film School Rejects have posted some high­way pic­tures of Bar­ri­cade being trans­ported through Cul­ver City. They are Saleen Mus­tangs with the Decep­ti­con logo on the side pan­els. Note that mul­ti­ple cars are used for film­ing. Rumors sug­gest that Trans­form­ers 2 film­ing may be in prepa­ra­tion, though I’d hes­i­tate — we’ll prob­a­bly have to wait a lit­tle longer.