John Malkovich to battle giant robots in Transformers 3

[Roy Mustang]

Transformers 3

Turns out that being John Malkovich is more dangerous than we thought. Because next up for the Academy Award-nominated actor is a role in Michael Bay's third Transformers flick. And joining him will be another critically acclaimed performer, Frances McDormand, who took home a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Fargo.

(Bay also made a third casting announcement—of a Ferrari.)

What could Bay be thinking? By bringing this level of talent on board for his effects-laden movie, is he planning for the latest installment to be about more than merely things blowing up real good?

Here's what the director had to say over at his official site:

Hey, it's been a long time since I've posted. Just been a little busy.

Transformers 3 has been going very well. We are going to shoot in LA, Chicago, Washington DC, Florida, Texas, Africa, Moscow, and China. On the talent front, we just locked in Frances McDormand and John Malkovich. Both amazing actors I've always wanted to work with. We also just got Ken Jeong, he is the super funny actor stuck in the trunk from "Hangover" and the Doctor from "Knocked Up."

We start shooting pre-shoots in about one month.

I also was at a Ferrari charity event this week raising money for a hospital being built by Ferrari in Haiti. I announced that night the newest Autobot to join Transformers: the Ferrari 458 Italia.

I also want to thank everyone on this site that donated to the Make -A-Wish charity. We raised $20,000 which I will personally be matching. This is a great charity where they make wishes come true for kids who are very ill. We have had many Kids from Make-A-Wish visit us on our Transformers sets and this time we will be posting video of they're visits on Transformers 3.

Michael Bay

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[Nate]

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Fool me once, shame on Michael Bay. Fool me twice, shame on me. I don't care what he does. I will say it here. NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING will make me go see Transformers 3 short of Michael Bay being taken off of it.'

Oh, a Ferrari? Awesome! So judging from how Bay has cast other Transformers, we can expect the Ferrari Autobot to be all "Mama-mia! Let's-a roll out, pizanos! That's-a one spicy meatball!"

And John Malkovich does nothing for me. It's not like he hasn't been in bad movies, and acted really really awful before. Like oh, say, ERAGON.

He won't fool me again. I refuse to support this movie.

[rocklobster]

No Michael Bay, stop raping my childhood memories!

[battletech]

I think the first two movies are OK. I not saying that they are master pieces.
They are alot better then the crap we thought it be. When they first said they were making the movies.