IGN normally comes through with good info in these cases and they certainly proved accurate when they said Shia LaBeof was going to be in the live-action version of Transformers. So, when they posted this article who would I be not to listen?
IGN is reporting that Jon Voight is in talks to join the feature as “Keller”, the U.S. Secretary of State; Michael Clarke Duncan, is closing in on the role of “Figueroa”; Bernie Mac is the frontrunner for the role of “Bobby Bolivia”; “Vegas” star Josh Duhamel has a lock on the role of the young military commander, Lennox; Tyrese as “Epps”; John Turturro as “Simmons”; Rachael Taylor as “Maggie”; Megan Fox as “Mikaela”; Travis Van Winkle as “Trent”; and John Robinson as “Miles.”
To get the full scoop on each character’s involvement in the picture click here.
Transformers is slated to begin filming next month for a July 4, 2007 release.
I don’t care much about this one, but it is news nonetheless. Peter Bogdanovich is set to direct The Broken Code, a biopic about the research scientist whose X-ray photographs played a key role in James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s discovery of DNA’s double-helical structure.
Ron Howard is already looking for more even before the already controversial film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code hits theaters as he readies The Look of Real for Universal Pictures with an eye on casting his very own daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, as the star.
The Winnie Holzman-scripted ensembler follows a group of young women in the garment industry.
