Image Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Wireimage.comSources close to the production of Transformers 3 confirm to EW that Megan Fox’s option for the film has not been renewed. Contrary to earlier reports, however, the decision is not a personal vendetta. The source tells EW that it was logical, considering the direction of the script, which sees leading man Shia LaBeouf developing a new love interest.
May 19
2010
06:07 PM ET
Megan Fox's option not renewed for 'Transformers 3'
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Considering how the third movie is probably going to suck as much as the second, this is probably great news for her. lol
Lol. Considering how you’re still gonna be (LOL!) pulling pud to her photoLOLshoots, it doesn’t LOL matter. lol. putz. lol LOL.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
lol
Michael Bay..what a joke of a director. Explosions and sh*t blowing up, that’s the premise of all his movies.
explosions AND $hit blowing up? wow… i never knew there was a difference.
kekekekekekekekekeke 0_o o_O
Aren’t “explosions” and “sh*t blowing up” the same thing?
Don’t believe the PR, it’s a personal vendetta because of her mouthing off at the director.
Can I just say…HA HA…Thats what she gets for thinking that shes so untouchable that she can talk as much smack as she wants about Bruckheimer. Only time will tell if she’ll actually have a career without Transformers
Meagan mouths off about Michael Bay and Shia mouths of about Spielberg and what “he needs to hear”- does any of young Hollywood have class?
What does having an opinion and voicing have to do with class? Oooh, they dared speak up to the powerful dudes that run Hollywood. Good for them. Maybe Bay will work a little harder on Transformer 3 and make an actual movie instead exploding stuff and counting on 13 year old boys to come out in droves. If I pay $12 for a movie ticket, shouldn’t there be a discernible plot – action movie or not?
@ I agree with Sally in Chicago.
After Revenge of the Fallen, Fox referred to Bay as being a “Nazi Director”. That comment did her in.
I’ll miss her.
She was the only good thing about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Wow, all of a sudden, I’m in love with her.. good for her, too bad Shia Lawhateverhisnameis can’t bail out either.. cause apparantly he wants to too
you nailed it
I think the film actually has a chance of being good now without Megan Fox. I’m so happy about this news!!!
here here. Now they just need a new director and male leading star.
Having a big mouth in Hollywood can get you canned… take note, Katherine Heigl!
Actually, bbeing smart and honest got Heigl an Emmy, a long stint on an acclaimed show, multiple film contracts, a production company, and multiple upcoming projects. I’d say Heigl’s one smart cookie.
yah, a big ole b*itch chip cookie.
Tarchannon are you serious?!
After bad mouthing “Knocked Up” only movies she has made are rom com’s. She is in the same level as Jennifer Lopez and ms. Anistion. No serious roles and no serious director even considers her. I’m sure there are several A-List directors who will never work with Heigl, because they can’t be sure what she’ll say about them.
By the way i like Heigl as actress (have liked her since Roswell), but honesty has never worked in hollywood.
Heigl makes $12M a pic now. That’s more than any actress in Hollywood except Jolie, Roberts, Witherspoon and Diaz. Yeah, I’ll say she learned her lesson. And she’s smiling all the way to the bank. You go girl!
This is HORRIBLE NEWS!!!! I’m upset about this.
um there are already pictures of her on set..
right? I saw some pictures of her next to Bumble Bee on set a couple of weeks ago!! Check your sources EW!
It was on E! online and CNN too.
check your sources its been all over the entertainment world, how she is out.
They haven’t started filming this movie yet. It’s still in pre-production.
So what? There were also publicity and set pictures of Eric Stolz starring in Back to the Future. Things change.
A bit hard to believe that this decision is entirely professional and not at all personal.
I agree. The script called for it or the screenwriter was ordered to fashion a script sans Foxy? Let’s not kid ourselves here.
I totally agree. After calling Michael Bay a “Hitler on the set” I figured she wasn’t going to be back
I forgot meagan had beef with Bay during Revenge. But lets Be Honest, Shia and Meagan Fox were a pretty odd couple in the Second movie. Hope the Third one is better.
After everything she had said, if anyone believes that this wasn’t “personal,” I have some prime desert lands in Nevada for you to buy.
How much you asking for it?
I’ll take a few acres
From what I understand she has a reputation for being a monster on set. The reasons could very well be “professional” if she’s making it hard for everyone else to do their jobs.
She slammed the director and the movie in the media its definitely personal. Even though the movie will probably suck its a huge hit for her career to be kicked out of a franchise like that.
Yeah, calling Bay “Hitler” was uncalled for.
Wait…she’s not gonna be in part 3?? Now if they could just write Shia out of the movie as well…
I totally agree! I want Shia’s character to be stomped by Decepticons in the first 5 minutes!
Directors Like Mike Bay, Steven Speilberg, James Cameron Etc. don’t become household names easily. They do becuase they take their jobs serious and take a no nonsense attitude toward their work. Megan was likely not up to the demand of working in a huge Hollywood blockbuster. She moved up far too quickly. She should have started in stupid horror movies first and work her way up from there.
I’m sorry, but Michael Bay is HARDLY a household name. You just lumped him with some seriously fine directors!
Too bad.She was the only thing good about Transformers 2.That movie really sucked.The third one most likely will too.
i liked the second one better than the first actually. i think that megan fox is a spoiled brat that owes everything to this franchise, she doesn’t seem to be doing so well outside it. as long as shia is in it i will watch.
They might want to rethink that. Megan Fox is the only reason some people see these movies and bringing in a new love interest never works.
Right…because people went to see the first and second one only because Shia and Megan were in it. Just like people saw Indy 4 because of Shia. Get a grip!
They made an Indy 4?
Really? I went to see it for the giant robots fighting, not for Fox in a skimpy outfit – but, well, that’s just me…
These movies are already pure crap, but you’re saying that after building up their relationship over 2 movies and then having their love be like a saving grace at the end of the movie will be nullified and Shia will have a new love interest? If Transformers sucked before it’s gonna blow hard now XD
Absolutely! I don’t care for her acting but I can’t imagine how they can justify a new love interest for him… unless she’s dead.
oh please. i wanted to vomit when she kept crying and told him that she loved him while he was “dead” and she wanted him to come back to her; then he came back and said that he loved her as well. that is some boooorrriiing stuff right there.
Sounds pretty acurate if you look at todays relationships. Guys get bored, girls get dumped. New one’s come in. I change girls almost as often as I change my cars motor oil.
Every 10,000 miles?
very very disappointing…I’m sure this is a bit of revenge by Mr. Bay..
Will definately be interesting who he casts to replace her?
I would be relieved if I were her.
I agree. Not a personal fan of Fox but they are really good together and after two films, everyone is pretty invested in this relationship.
Agreed!
I don’t really want to see him get a new love interest either.
a guy love interest would be good..
Agreed, I can barely sleep after ‘Transformers’ wondering if Shia and Megan are happy together
this makes me sad, but i don’t know why
Oh thank God!! I can’t stand her. I cringe every time she comes on screen. She is a horrible actress, the poor man’s Angelina.
really really really poor mans Angelina. Poor and strung out on meth.
Though I don’t like Angelina either really. At least she isn’t a moronic train wreck like Fox.
Maybe if she wears a vile of someone else’s blood around her neck she’ll be classy enough then?
She certainly seems to have great respect for the franchise that made her a star.
Doesn’t matter really cuz the third movie will suck as bad as the others. All she ever was, was a hot slice of T&A.
Love her or hate her the studio just lost $150 million off the bottom line, minimum. Hope they and Michael Bay’s ego are happy. You have to know your audience and your audience for this movie was teenage boys. They’re going to HATE this move. And don’t tell me they’ll go for whoever they replace her with. Remember when Isabel Lucas was supposed to become a huge star off of Transformer’s 2 and we wouldn’t even notice Megan Fox after her. How’d that one work out? Isabel who?
That’s because Isabel Lucas is kinda ugly.
Yeah, like I’d kick her out of bed for eating crackers.
seriously you don’t know what your talking about, they haven’t lost a dang thing. Fox only hits have been these movies, have you seen the other movies she has been in, if you haven’t neither had the rest of us cause they sucked.
Only way she is ever going to make it in the movies is one, she attaches herself to another established franchise or she goes to porn.
She sucks so I think porn might be her only other avenue.
Be pretty hot for tranny porn, but if she’s a girl, nothin special