Let’s quote our prescient selves here.
[“Megan Fox’s] replacement has already been announced — or at least the frontrunner for the next :90 seconds or so until five other publications report seventeen other frontrunners.”
Now it’s time for an installment of my dick sources is are better than yours!
To recap, unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last 48 hours. Megan Fox was dropped from “Transformers 3.” Allegedly, director Michael Bay and Paramount decided against renewing her third film option and of course Fox and her publicists are on a rampage to say that Bay is a tyrant, a misogynist and was “verbally abusive” to the star. Hmm, as much as Fox’s publicists love damage control, those claims do feel pretty on the money.
Either way, she’s out and Gemma Arterton was linked to the role almost immediately, along with supermodels Bar Rafaeli, Miranda Kerr and Brooklyn Decker, which was followed by a whole rash of potential candidates being bandied about including Emmanuelle Chriqui (“Entourage”), Jessica Lowndes (“90210”), Zoe Saldana, Hayden Panettiere (“Heroes”), Camilla Belle (“Push”), Ashley Greene (“Twilight”), Amber Heard (“Pineapple Express”), Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical”), country singer Julianne Hough and British supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whitley.
But “Clash of The Titans” star Gemma Arteton is still the frontrunner, no? Now on Michael Bay’s message boards — where all good things are discussed of course — and producer Don Murphy’s boards, (via Movieline) someone claiming to be someone important is saying, Arteton as the replacement is, “not even close.”
Pretty speculative, of course, that any of that is legit (take it with a grain of salt as Movieline says), however we buy it if only because: Megan Fox to Gemma Arteton? That doesn’t scream like a Michael Bay move at all. Now hot supermodel? We’re sure one of the Sports Illustrated half-naked girls has a better shot. Can’t we all just wait until the person is actually cast? Hopefully there’s only half a dozen more reports about this before the final announcement is made, cause all things considered, that wouldn’t be so bad considering how out of control it’s going to become.
