Post­ing on the Don Mur­phy forums, Roberto Orci has con­firmed that nei­ther he nor Alex Kurtz­man will be return­ing for the third episode in the Trans­form­ers tril­ogy. Ehren Kruger (The Ring, Scream 3, Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen) is tak­ing over from the pair.

So Bob and Alex is it true. you wont be involved this time round.
It’s true.

Sorry to hear that Roberto, really I am. Are we in good hands with Mr. Kruger? Does he know his Trans­form­ers?
He does. He really did his home­work. He’s awesome.

Stel­lan Skarsgård’s son, Alexan­der, was orig­i­nally con­sid­ered as a strong can­di­date for the Thor role, but in the end lost out to Star Trek man Chris Hemsworth. Swedish site Ystads Alle­handa report that Stel­lan has been cast in the movie, but his role is deeply secre­tive. So secre­tive in fact, the stu­dio wanted the actor to sign with­out read­ing the script; he refused until he received a copy (albeit an encoded version).

Ryan Reynolds recently appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fal­lon, where he talked very briefly about his upcom­ing role as Hal Jor­dan. The footage is on Hulu (you need to be in the US to watch this) and the gritty bit begins around the 21 minute mark. Video via SHH.

EW​.com have posted a new image show­ing Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit at a diner, pre­sum­ably Randy’s Donuts, which we’ve seen in film­ing. Accord­ing to the SDCC footage, which pre­ma­turely leaked on the inter­net, this scene will fea­ture Stark talk­ing to Nick Fury (Samuel Jack­son), Jack­son was also spot­ted in the vicin­ity of Randy’s Donuts dur­ing filming.

The sixth video from Enter­tain­ment Tonight’s exclu­sive Iron Man 2 set visit is now up. This time Don Chea­dle talks about his roles in the sequel, namely as Rhodey and the already infa­mous War Machine. Video after the break…
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Spec­u­lated as early as Decem­ber 2008, and more solidly in March this year, we heard a June/July 2011 release date for Trans­form­ers 3 was on the cards. How­ever, Michael Bay rebutted these remarks, sug­gest­ing he wanted a year off from mechan­i­cal beasts to work on some­thing a lit­tle different.

How­ever, Bay has now con­firmed via his blog that Trans­form­ers 3 will hit the­aters in July 2011. He also left a mes­sage for Megan Fox,

Well its offi­cial: We have a great Trans­form­ers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012.

Today is Day One. This morn­ing started with an ILM meet­ing for five hours in San Fran­cisco. Cur­rently I’m fly­ing with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Has­bro about new characters.

P.S. Megan Fox, wel­come back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way dur­ing the pro­duc­tion of this motion pic­ture. Please con­sult your Physi­cian when work­ing under my direc­tion because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizzi­ness, intense nau­sea, sui­ci­dal ten­den­cies, depres­sion, minor chest hair growth, ran­dom inter­nal hem­or­rhag­ing and inabil­ity to sleep. As some direc­tors may be haz­ardous to your health, please con­sult your Doc­tor to deter­mine if this is right for you.

Pain and Gain is right after shoot­ing of Trans 3.

Talk­ing with MovieWeb, Harold Ramis gives an over­whelm­ingly pos­i­tive pic­ture of the newly penned script. To sum­marise, the link between the Office writ­ers Gene Stup­nit­sky and Lee Eisen­berg, Harold Ramis and ulti­mately GB3 was “con­ve­nient” to the stu­dios. No new actors have been approached or signed, for the time being.

How does Egon live in 2012, Ramis shares this thoughts,

I had two ini­tial first instincts. One was that Egon had become a shaved head Bud­dhist monk. That is not going to hap­pen. The thing that I pitched for my char­ac­ter is that he’s been liv­ing in Geneva, and he works for the Insti­tute of Imag­i­nary Sci­ence. The work we are doing doesn’t require any con­cep­tual, intel­lec­tual, spe­cial, or math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els for what we are doing. Even we don’t know what we are doing. It’s that theoretical.

And on the dif­fi­cul­ties of writ­ing the sequel,

I think we are just going to try and make a good movie. The inten­tion of a sequel is not to give an audi­ence more of what they didn’t get enough of the first time. It’s to give the audi­ence some­thing that is new. We want them to feel that they are hav­ing a new expe­ri­ence of some kind. That becomes a tightrope. Yeah, we def­i­nitely are intro­duc­ing new Ghost­busters. That much is for sure. And there will be inter-dimensional crea­tures vis­it­ing New York. And we will deal with it. That’s all I am allowed to say at this point.

ET keep pimp­ing their Iron Man 2 exclu­sives, and why shouldn’t they? Next up are two video inter­views with Gwyneth Pal­trow and new­comer Scar­lett Johans­son. Again, videos embed­ded after the break because of the awful player.

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