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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

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Posted by Shannon on March 30, 2006 10:57 AM
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