Tranformers: Dark of the Moon is doing quite well in the box office even without the sexy sultry Megan Fox steaming up the screen. Many are surely disappointed with her absence as the actress sure has had many of her fans wanting and waiting to see her smoke up the screen and revel in the fact that geeky and nerdy college boys still have hopes of having a hot girlfriend who knows her cars and engines!
Word has it that Stephen Spielberg gave actress Megan Fox the pink slip and fired her from the third sequel of the Transformers series. This comes a year after when Fox claimed she decided to leave the movie. The director himself, Michael Bay, spoke on this matter saying that it was Spielberg who put his foot down with a decision to give Fox the axe. Reports have put the actress on a bad light, as she was cited for very unprofessional behaviour on set.
Finally breaking his silence about the issues , Michael Bay specifically pointed that incident when Fox threw comments about him that had the executive producer, Steven Spielber,g decide to fire her right then and there.
Megan Fox was quoted on an interview with Wonderland Magazine in 2009 saying– “He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it’s endearing to watch him.”
Well, that certainly was enough to have made her cross that line and do the walk of shame on the set.
Bay, however has expressed that he wasn’t hurt over the comments but was rather bemused and says it was merely Fox’s personal character shining through in a not so good way. Her former on screen boyfriend Shia LaBeouf openly expressed how Fox suddenly developed this Spice Girl strength and woman empowerment “stuff”.
According to Labeouf, Michael Bay’s filming style was a no-frills no-fluff manner that Fox had a hard time accepting. He puts that his director seems to lack some tact with instructions and may have been what triggered the Hitler comment.
After all that drama, Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley replaced Megan Fox as Shia LaBeouf’s hot new sophisticated British accent girlfriend. Certainly another eye candy on the set and just to add more steam on the screen is Dr,McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey!
Is Megan Fox Still the Most Interesting Thing About Transformers?Why is all the press surrounding the new Transformers movie about Megan Fox, who isn't even in the movie? Is this the studio's plan?
—Junebug, Atlanta, via the inbox
It's a delicious conspiracy theory, isn't it? We imagine a smoky back room, filled with studio execs. They take a look at the final cut of Dark of the Moon, wail and moan as their eyes bleed out of their sockets, and then decide to market the whole mess by trashing franchise refugee Megan Fox.
So is this what happened? I asked around:
Likely, not.
Yes, by many accounts, this is not a good movie, even by blockbuster-sequel standards. It bows this week—but it's gotten a stinky 39 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. CNN is calling it "lousy," Rolling Stone warns that viewers run the risk of "dying a little inside," and my buddy Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons went so far as to say that watching the film was like "being urinated upon." The biggest complaint: that despite all the exploding robots, the story is just empty.
There is no there, there.
Still, it's unlikely that the studio behind the film orchestrated its marketing campaign around trashing Megan Fox. Publicists are evil, but they're not, I am told, that evil.
"I think that it's a little too much of a conspiracy theory," posits Rachel Hill, a former personal publicist and the current director of marketing at American World Pictures, which is about to shoot a new Danny Glover film.
"I doubt that anything like that would be formally approved by any studio," Scott Donaton of the marketing group Ensemble agrees.
That said, don't be shocked if the movie's principle star, Shia LaBeouf, did think through his Fox-trashing in advance, Hill says.
"Did Shia have to answer those questions about him and Megan Fox?" Hill notes. "Was it necessary? Maybe he did it to raise his profile a bit.
"I've had clients in the past who, when scandals have come out, we didn't deny things. In fact we kept the scandal going because it kept our clients in the public eye."
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