Michael Bay Hires Real Actors For "Transformers 3"

March 22. 2010

Michael Bay (center) and Transformers cast

Considering his leading lady, Megan Fox, is only in the Transformers film franchise as eye candy, director Michael Bay, has hired actors with talent to compensate for the deficit.

Megan Fox

Bay has cast veteran actors John Malkovich and Frances McDormand in roles for the "Transformers 3" movie, slated to hit theatres next year. However, with Fox in the film, the chances of it being taken seriously are next to none. The movie will make some money, but not be viewed as an artistic film with credible content.

Did my article last week branding Bay "superficial" get to him. But let's face it, that's what his work is to most. When I watch a Bay film I'm not thinking, "Wow, that was so artistic" - I'm thinking, "Oh c'mon, how much C-4 did this guy use!"

Note to Michael Bay: the U.S. military called and they want all their equipment back (grin).

"Transformers 3" Adds Some Grown-Ups: John Malkovich, Frances McDormand Cast by Michael Bay

March 22, 2010 02:20 PM EDT - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand will join Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in Transformers 3, the third in Michael Bay's trilogy about robots in disguise. Malkovich, playing the LaBeouf character's first boss, and McDormand, playing "the National Intelligence Director," previously appeared together in 2008's Burn After Reading, which T3 will presumably not resemble in any other way...

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