It's been revealed overnight that there's going to be one significant cast member who won't be returning for Michael Bay's soon-to-shoot third Transformers movie. And that person? None other than Megan Fox.
This is a pretty surprising development, especially considering that
it seemed all was fine and dandy between Fox and Bay. It hadn't been, of
course. Off the back of the shoot for Transformers: Revenge Of The
Fallen, Fox infamously criticised Bay, declaring that he was "like
Hitler".Specifically, her quote from Wonderland magazine was that:
"He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous
mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.
So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and
he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality
because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills
at all."
These words were reported just two months after Transformers:
Revenge Of The Fallen stormed the box office. It seemed they were
to have ramifications.Bay laughed it off at the time, but according to reports at Deadline Hollywood - which broke the news that Fox wasn't returning for the new film - he was also the man who would have made the final call on the actress' involvement in Transformers 3.
Thus, Paramount didn't take up its option on Fox for the movie, and Michael Bay would have had to sign off on that decision. It seems that he did, and Fox was gone.
