The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Transformers 4 (which most likely won’t be the name of the film) will focus on Mark Wahlberg’s character (the character’s identity is still being kept secret) and his daughter. The film;s third lead in the film will be her boyfriend, who is a race car driver. Currently Isabelle Cornish (Limitless) and Nicola Peltz (The Last Airbender) are two of the actresses currently up for the female role. It’s also been revealed that there are currently five young actors up for the boyfriend role in the fourth installment.

The list includes Luke Grimes (Brothers & Sisters), Landon Liboiron (Terra Nova), Brenton Thwaites (Blue Lagoon: The Awakening), as well as newcomer Jack Reynor and Hunter Parrish (Weeds). It’s also being said that these actors are being offered a strict three-picture deal, meaning that this will likely be the start of a new trilogy, and to expect an April-November shoot.

Source: THR

With the recent addition of Mark Wahlberg to the cast of the fourth chapter in the Transformers franchise, we should probably start expecting more news to come from that film very soon. The first details to the film were revealed to TMZ [via BleedingCool] where the director talked about just where the next film would take place after Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. The director revealed:

“The movie is going to continue 4 years on from the attack on Chicago which was in the last movie. So it’s going still to have the same lineage but going in a full, new, different direction and it actually feels really natural how it is going in that direction.”

So, this definitely means they won’t really have to address Chicago too much being that it’s gone and over and the Decepticons (Come on…obviously they’re going to be in it) will have had time to regroup and plan out their attack. Fingers crossed that we’re going to be getting some of the cooler ‘cons that haven’t been used yet.

It’s undeniable that the Transformers movies are fun as hell to watch. I’ve been a die-hard ‘former fan since I got my first toy back in the mid-80’s and I am one of the fans who does enjoy Micheal Bay’s films. Well, minus Revenge Of The Fallen which I pretty much have just blocked out from my mind.

And love them or hate them they have gone on to be some of the highest grossing films of all time so it’s a no brainer that we would see a fourth entry in the franchise. Michael Bay had stated that Dark Of The Moon was going to be his final time at bat with the Autobots and Decepticons but to many peoples surprise signed on to direct the currently untitled fourth film. He recently spoke on his reasons for returning to helm the fourth film with The Huffington Post.

“I thought I was done, then the ride came out and the two-and-a-half-hour lines. And then you’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, someone’s going to take this over?’ And you start doing a lot of soul-searching… I’m thinking that if I do this last one, we set it on a new footing and we change a lot of things, but we keep the history of the three in place. But we broaden it so it can be set up and be carried on — it would have a better chance for survival, I guess… The bottom line is, when you go to Universal Studios and you have the two-and-a-half-hour line, it’s hard to give it up. You birth a baby and you want to carry it on.”

After stating that this fourth chapter would “probably” (let’s just say right now that he will probably be back) be his last one, he also seemingly reveals that those previous rumors of a whole new start for the franchise may not be entirely true.

“We’re basically taking from the history of where it was, or where we left it in Chicago, and we’re going to carry it on from there.”

I’m actually glad that they’re not going the sort-of reboot route with this one and hope we get something bigger this time around and hopefully more screen time for some of the fan favorite Autobots. No more Megatron please. Who would you guys likes to see as the villain in the next ‘formers flick?

Cine1 has just posted an image that they are claiming to be a provisional poster for ‘Transformers 4’.

Could this be fake and fan-made? Sure. It totally could be.

Wait…has this movie even started production? No? Then why the hell am I posting this? Because this site actually has been reliable in the past and with San Diego Comic-Con less than a month away. Why wouldn’t Paramount start advertising now? Especially when their movies come out a year after the dates they originally set. I kid I kid. Kind of.

Well anyway…here it is!

Honestly as great as some of those fan posters are…this kind of looks real. And even though its not that great i’m a huge Transformers fan in general so I love everything TF related….except ‘Revenge Of The Fallen’. One of the only movies I refuse to ever see a second time. But ‘Dark Of The Moon’ was great and fun. I’m definitely looking forward to a fourth film. More Sideswipe please?