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More Transformers 2 Plot Details Emerge
Published 6/26/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
Michael Bay revealed a couple new details in an interview with the New Jersey Times. The story picks up with Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) visiting Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel. Apparently Banes didn’t have enough money to go to college and was left behind in Los Angeles. And while the first movie was about a boy and his first car, Bay says that the new movie “is all about Sam growing up and going to college … a teenager growing into a man.” Rainn Wilson was spotted on set the same day that they were ...

Revenge is Coming... 2009!
Published 6/26/2008 at "SuperHeroHype.com - 30 most recent stories"
... at Princeton, but why are they there? Director Michael Bay told New Jersey's The Times : The university angle to the plot "is all about Sam growing up and going to college ... a teenager growing into a man," Bay said. Bay, who said the Princeton campus reminds him of his alma mater, Wesleyan University, said he decided to put Princeton in the movie (though it won't be called Princeton) because the campus is so beautiful. "I just love the look of the university," he said. Meanwhile, Josh Duhamel gave ...

Are We Getting Too Much of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Already? [In Production]
Published 6/26/2008 by Neil Miller at Film School Rejects
I am already beginning to get burnt out on all of this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stuff — every inch of production, every moment that Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Michael Bay spend out of their trailers and every minute detail about the film have been dissected and over-analyzed all over the web. At some point we might lose interest, and I fear that it will be unfortunately close to the film’s June 26, 2009 release date. The photo above, which comes to us via Flickr, shows one of the first “official” anythings from the production. Up until now it has been all photos and videos from afar, all ...

New Official Details About Hellboy 2, Transformers 2, Heroes And Sarah Connor Chronicles [Morning Spoilers]
Published 6/30/2008 by Charlie Jane Anders at io9
... Also, I totally missed the snippet towards the end of this article, where Michael Bay mentions a bit about the plot of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Sam Witwicky goes off to college at an Ivy League-esque East Coast school, but Mikaela (Megan Fox) can't afford college. She travels from L.A. to visit him at his school. [NJ.com via ...