Transformers 2 director Michael Bay confirmed on his message board that Aussie actress Isabel Lucas has been cast as Alice in the sequel. He also denied speculation in an Australian newspaper that producer Steven Spielberg hand picked her.

Never trust those newspapers. Blogs are much more reliable. Lucas is perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian soap Home and Away. Well, that and her dedication to animal issues. Lucas joined Heroes star Hayden Panettiere and several others in an October protest against dolphin hunting in Japan.

Next time, she’ll be able to take Optimus Prime to Japan with her. That’ll show those fishermen. Huh? My wife just told Optimus Prime is not real and that the Transformers cartoons and live action film were not documentaries. La la la! I’m not listening!

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Superstar director Michael Bay has admitted he was hard at work on the script for Transformers 2 during the writers’ strike.

“We’ve got our characters all designed,” Bay told popular film site Rotten Tomatoes. I always write all my scripts, my movies anyway so at least I’ve got something to give the writers. It’s like a template. We have a really good outline so I worked on that. We had to because I want to make my date. I’m not going to let the strike take me down.”

The writer in me says support the writers, but the movie geek in me says “Yes! More giant robot face-punching action!”

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