LaBeouf Plays With "Transformers"
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shia LaBeouf is in final negotiations to star in "Transformers," the DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures live-action adaptation based on the popular toy line, animated and comic book series of the 1980s that featured giant robots that morph into cars, trucks, planes, ships, etc.
Michael Bay is set
to direct with Steven
Spielberg executive producing.
In Transformers lore, the robots are divided into two groups: the
Autobots - led by Optimus
Prime, who believe in tolerance and the sanctity of life- and the
Decepticons - led by Megatron,
who espouse survival of the fittest and the extermination of biological
life. Last year, writers Alex
Kurtzman and Roberto Orci told ComingSoon.net
that the storyline will be based upon the original Generation 1 series with Optimus
Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream,
Bumblebee and Jazz among the ten of the Transformers
featured in the film.
LaBeouf will play Spike Witwicky, an 18-year-old on the lookout for his first car. When he buys one, he discovers it is actually an elite sentinel for the Autobots.
Starring in such sci-fi films as "iRobot" and "Constantine," LaBeouf
will next appear in not-so-sci-fi "A Guide to Recognizing
Your Saints," followed by Emilio Estevez's "Bobby."
"Transformers" is slated for a July 4, 2007 release date. --Shannon Nolley
