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The story picks up two years after the events in Transformers and Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) makes a big life decision – he chooses to go away to college and leave behind his girlfriend, Mikaela (Megan Fox) and his beloved car, Bumblebee.  I can’t imagine why he would do that but let’s hope there’s a good explanation in a movie.

Anyway, everything seems fine until he starts seeing visions and symbols that he doesn’t understand.  When he tells Optimus Prime about it, the Autobots’ leader reveals that there is a lot that Sam doesn’t know.  Of course, the Decepticons find out about the secrets being kept from Sam and a war between good and evil erupts (again).

The new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game looks amazing so, maybe after I see the movie, I’ll pick up a copy.  It looks a little more flexible than the game for the first movie so I’m looking forward to checking out.

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I’m not only a die-hard Transformers fan but I’m also an admitted Trekkie so this next bit of news really piqued my interest.  I don’t know how many of you saw the original cartoon Transformers: The Movie (1986) but Leonard Nimoy (best known as Spock from Star Trek) provided the voice of Galvatron.

Roberto Orci, who is a writer on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has said that he would like to have Nimoy as the voice of a character in the new movie (I’d love it too!).

As if that’s not a big enough incentive, Bay revealed something else: “You know, he’s (Nimoy) related to me.  And now that you are filming this, maybe you can send it to him. [Nimoy] is married to Susan Bay, who’s a cousin to me.  I just feel kind of bad about asking him. Like ‘I can’t pay you that much? But would you do this voice?’  Would he do it?  He suggested to my mom that he might do it.”

Wow… when all else fails, go to the director’s mom!

image: Spock Poster, Amazon.com

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Photo by DreamWorks/Paramount

First of all, we get our first real look at some of the Decepticons.  I’m not 100% sure about the one that appears to be jumping out of the water but I do know that it’s Starscream in the photo below with Sam.

We also get a glimpse at some of the locations.  I see that the desert/military scenes have made a comeback but are those the Egyptian pyramids in one shot!?  That would be AMAZING!

Of course, I’m also curious about how they are going to bring back Megatron since he was destroyed in the first film by the All Spark.  I guess I will have to anxiously wait and see.

The plot for the sequel (according to IMDb) is as follows: “Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.”

The film hits theaters on June 24, 2009.  In the meantime, enjoy these production stills:

Photo by DreamWorks/Paramount

Photo by DreamWorks/Paramount

Photo by Jaimie Trueblood/DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures

Photo by Robert Zuckerman/DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures

Photo by DreamWorks/Paramount

Photo by DreamWorks/Paramount

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