{"id":8325,"date":"2010-05-20T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2019-05-25T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:27:21","slug":"fox-out-of-transformers-3-replacent-derby-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/20\/fox-out-of-transformers-3-replacent-derby-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Out Of TRANSFORMERS 3, Replacent Derby Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MeganFox1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8332\" title=\"MeganFox1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MeganFox1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Megan Fox is not going to be back for Michael Bay&#8217;s blockbuster franchise installment <strong>Transformers 3<\/strong>. The news broke late yesterday from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/05\/michael-bays-revenge-no-more-megan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deadline,<\/a> who reported that it was ultimately Bay&#8217;s decision to not bring the actress because &#8220;giving Shia a new love interest makes more sense for the story.&#8221; Fox&#8217;s PR people countered with a statement released a few hours later to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20386636,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People<\/a> that &#8220;It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter who made the decision as to Fox&#8217;s continued employment in the franchise, this doesn&#8217;t come as a complete surprise. While doing press for her horror film Jennifer&#8217;s Body, the actress was candidly critical of Bay, comparing his on-set attitude to Hitler at one point. Supporters in Bay&#8217;s camp fired back with accusations of Diva-like behavior and referred to her as &#8220;dumb-as-a-rock.&#8221; The two sides supposedly made up with Bay promising that Fox would be back for the threequel. And we see how that worked out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GemmaArterton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8334\" title=\"GemmaArterton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GemmaArterton-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>So who will be stepping into the roles of franchise star Shia LeBoeuf&#8217;s love interest? It seems that everyone has inside information as to which hot actresses are in contention. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/column-post\/gemma-arterton-replace-megan-fox-transformers-3-17549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wrap<\/a> is reporting that <strong>Quantum Of Solace<\/strong> Bond girl is a front-runner for the role and has already met with Bay, while models Bar Rafaeli, Miranda  Kerr and Brooklyn Decker are also being considered as possible replacements. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180708205409\/http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/45167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AintItCool<\/a> has a list of potential replacements that include Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jessica Lowndes, Zoe Saldana, Hayden Penetierre, Camilla Belle, Ashley Greene, Amber Heard, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.<\/p>\n<p>No matter who thyey choose, they better choose quickly. <strong>Transformers 3<\/strong> is set to go in front of the cameras in just a few weeks for a release next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Megan Fox is not going to be back for Michael Bay&#8217;s blockbuster franchise installment Transformers 3. The news broke late yesterday from Deadline, who reported that it was ultimately Bay&#8217;s decision to not bring the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/20\/fox-out-of-transformers-3-replacent-derby-begins\/\" title=\"Fox Out Of TRANSFORMERS 3, Replacent Derby Begins\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,771,1493,1739,2620],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-casting","9":"tag-gemma-arterton","10":"tag-megan-fox","11":"tag-michael-bay","12":"tag-transformers-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}