Favreau keeps up his twit­ter power with more updates from Day 2 and 3 of film­ing, includ­ing Mickey Rourke’s first day and some of Garry Shandling’s comments:

Day 2. Slept like a rock. Finally. Not used to these long hours.

Swarm of paparazzi on set.

Garry Shan­dling: “I can’t wait to see the movie to see who I actu­ally play.”

Wrapped day two. Time for some sleep. So great to work with Garry.

Mickey Roarke’s first day.

Rourke does not disappoint.

Stayed late to watch dailies. It’s great to see these char­ac­ters come to life.

The Hol­ly­wood reporter have posted a video inter­view with Trans­form­ers 2 writ­ers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtz­man. Within they dis­cuss their aims for the project and their deci­sion to return.

Pic­tures of the new ROTF toys are pop­ping up all over the place now, here are but a few:

Mix­mas­ter

Gen­Zhao has posted shots of the new Deluxe Mix­mas­ter toy in it’s alt mode.

Hyper Hobby Scans

A Japan­ese mag­a­zine that com­pares the new ROTF toy mod­els with their first movie counterparts:

The Fallen

This toy is on eBay from seller yayabee (view the auc­tion).

Mega­tron

You can also get a look at the leader class Mega­tron toy at Cybertron​.ca:

It was pre­vi­ously rumored that Verbin­ski would be helm­ing the project, but here is the big news we’ve been wait­ing for — he has given up his direct­ing chair on Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to take on the BioShock project — Gore Verbin­ski shall be helm­ing the video game adap­ta­tion. Verbin­ski directed all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies as well as the US Ring remake.

A year since the announce­ment that a movie would be made it looks like the ball might soon be rolling into the realms of pre-production.

One more rumor to throw into the mix, from the same guy that said Garry Shan­dling would be Sen­a­tor Stern, we now hear that Gary Old­man was spot­ted on set. One rumor, which I believe is just spec­u­la­tion, is that Old­man will be play­ing Howard Stark, Tony’s father. It was pre­vi­ously thought that Tim Rob­bins would be play­ing this role.

Update: Gary oldman’s man­ager, Dou­glas Urban­ski, he posted the fol­low­ing at SHH:
“Mr. Old­man did not visit the set of Iron Man and there are cur­rently no plans for him to appear in the film.”

Speak­ing with MTV once again, Michael Bay has revealed fur­ther Trans­form­ers 2 details — this time focus­ing on the action scenes,

“There’s no car chase in this movie, […] There’s a lot of dif­fer­ent types of action. In some movies, it’s the same action through­out the entire movie. There’s a lot of dif­fer­ent types of action in this one, and that makes it interesting.”

He went on to con­firm that we would see Dev­as­ta­tor in full IMAX glory before claiming:

“[Sev­eral scenes] are going to be on IMAX, which is awe­some. […] Some of our main scenes were shot with IMAX cam­eras, so the screen will pop wide [if you see the film in an IMAX the­ater]. It’s the first movie to do seri­ous dig­i­tal effects in IMAX quality.”

The open­ing shot of the movie, which should also be in IMAX, will fea­ture Megan Fox and shall beat that ‘flir­ta­tious hood open­ing scene’ from the first movie:

“It’s bet­ter. […] [While film­ing] I was at a gas sta­tion buy­ing ice cream bars, and these 15-year-old boys were look­ing at me. They were like, ‘You’re that dude that directed “Trans­form­ers”!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah. Do you want to see “Trans­form­ers 2″? They were like, ‘Yeah!’ ” “I said, ‘Why do you want to see it?’ And together, in uni­son, they said, ‘The hot chick!’ […] It will be a good shot for them.”

Lots of shots show­ing Downey Jr., Pal­trow and Favreau mov­ing around, walk­ing, trav­el­ing by car — noth­ing too sen­sa­tional and a lit­tle bit too stalker-ish for my lik­ing. How­ever one inter­est­ing plot point to take into account is that Sam Rock­well is spot­ted on set (fea­tured in the video) — Rock­well is play­ing vil­lain Justin Ham­mer, pos­si­bly putting him at the rumored exten­sion of the “I am Iron Man” scene from the first movie — though this is mere spec­u­la­tion. Video comes via JFX­On­line.

MTV recently quizzed Robert Downey Jr. about a poten­tial Pep­per Potts (Gwyneth Pal­trow), Black Widow (Scar­lett Johans­son) and Tony Stark love tri­an­gle in the Iron Man sequel. He responded, “Heck yeah, Wouldn’t you?” — MTV claims this is con­fir­ma­tion of said plot point, whereas it could just be Downey Jr. hav­ing a bit of fun — I’ll opt to clas­sify this lit­tle one as rumor for now.