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Rodriguez to Have Bigger Role in Transformers 3

June 30, 2009


The Los Angeles Times has published an article on Ramon Rodriguez, who plays Leo Spitz in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It sounds like he'll be back for the third installment:

Director Michael Bay has a third "Transformers" film in mind, and if it plays out as he expects, the next installment would have a more substantial role for Rodriguez. The filmmaker, speaking at his office a few weeks before "Revenge of the Fallen" was released, seemed to have some pride of discovery when talking about Rodriguez.

"I've worked with big stars, people like Will Smith, Sean Connery and Bruce Willis, but casting is a weird thing, it takes you places you don't expect," Bay said. "We went looking for a sidekick in this movie, Shia's sidekick, and we find this new kid who really pops on screen. I think he’s going to have a real bright career. It's great to work with big stars, but it's always fun to discover people."


You can read more on Rodriguez here.

COMMENTS (156)

Posted by:
jmac
June 30, 2009
wow transformers 2 was horrible and there gonna take a crappy actor and give him a bigger role, what a Michael Bay thing to do. EXPLOSION!!!!
Posted by:
goleft
June 30, 2009
finally second...
Posted by:
goleft
June 30, 2009
no but really..it sounds like more crapolla from Bay for the third one...i feel bad for Shia Labeouf
Posted by:
Jacob
June 30, 2009
great.
so even one person will get a more substantial role, besides agent simmons and optimus prime.
Posted by:
SuperBuckeye30
June 30, 2009
Ehhh I really didn't care for his character too much, but I did like how Skidz and Mudflap made fun of him the whole movie. I think Shia and Megan would have been just fine without Leo as a sidekick, but the movie was still pretty good fun!
Posted by:
kyle
June 30, 2009
I agree with you SUPERBUCKEYE30. I didn't care for his character to much but skids and mudflap were funnt as hell.

Also, i thought that movie was really good. Hell, i loved it!
Posted by:
Mej
June 30, 2009
I thought Rodriguez was hilarious in Revenge of the Fallen. His comic delivery is up there. In fact, his comic delivery is way better than Shia's. I don't see why his role shouldn't be bigger in the third part.

My only issue with the transformers movies, which I've enjoyed overall, is that Bay puts up TOO much human-only scenes, and bases the movies from their perspectives rather than from the robots' perspective. I think if he were to change that in future, which I doubt, he'll have a perfect transformers movie.
Posted by:
Invasian
June 30, 2009
DUDE!!!! HES LIKE THE ONLY THING I HATED ABOUT TRANSFORMERS 2...LITERALLY....!!!!!!

why bay ? why??????????
Posted by:
Lorenzo
June 30, 2009
OH GOD NO!
If they are going to announce anything it should be more Autobots development time. And kill the Twins in the first scéne so we can get more Ironhide and Ratchet time again. I really missed them.
Posted by:
Mike
June 30, 2009
I though that Michael Bay said that he wasn't going to make another Transformers movie? Wasn't there an article saying that he was done? I may be wrong, but I thought that the article came out a few weeks ago.

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