Posted in the dark recesses that are the forums on Michael Bay’s offi­cial site, Shoot for the Edit, the admin recently spoke out about the sta­tus of the trans­form­ers sequel in regards to the expected delays caused by the strikes:

Bay just indi­cated to me that Trans­form­ers is still on sched­ule. The movie is still in heavy prep and “will be released JUNE 24th 2009.”

This came as a rebut­tal to the com­ments from Trans­form­ers writer Roberto Orci,

As you know, all screen­writ­ers are engaged in a labor dis­pute with the major stu­dios and media con­glom­er­ates that sub­si­dize much, but not all of the media con­tent that we con­sume. It may go on for a very long time. All the other writ­ers I’ve talked to on every level are ready to hold out FOREVER, all the while fig­ur­ing out ways to make a liv­ing out of the inter­net with­out studios.

So now the hard part for me and Alex and Ehren and all fans of Trans­form­ers is that the movie may suf­fer (unless of course you hate the first one so much that you feel our inat­ten­tion is a bonus). It may be pushed back or a host of other thing may hap­pen to it. For that we apol­o­gize truly.

will keep you posted…