Megatron is Returning for ‘Revenge of the Fallen’

One question on fans of the original ‘Transformers’ when they announced that a sequel was happening was, “Is Megatron coming back?”   Okay, maybe I was the only one asking that question, but I asked loud enough to account for the masses who weren’t.   One of Michael Bay’s original statements about ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ was that Megatron would NOT be returning.   Turns out Bay’s pants are on fire, ’cause the big robot baddie is coming back if you trust what Hugo Weaving has to say.

Check out this excerpt from The Advertiser, an Australian newspaper:

In town to promote his rather excellent new Aussie film, “Last Ride”, Hugo Weaving let slip he’ll be returning as the voice of Megatron in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”.

Fans no doubt will recall that when we last saw Megatron, Sam (Shia LaBeouf) had rammed the All Spark cube into his chest, thereby destroying him. Despite this certain death, rumours have been circulating the villain was going to make a comeback. Director Michael Bay went so far as to flatly deny the rumour, telling Empire: “He’s not in the movie”.

Turns out Bay was fibbing. “I’ve already done it,” Weaving says, adding Bay had told him to keep the news hush-hush. “He’s over in LA and we were working on the video split sort of thing and I had this strange conversation where he seemed to imply it was all a big secret. So there you go – I’ve given you the secret scoop.”

So how is Megatron resurrected? Weaving is coy about revealling too much, but does give a tiny hint.

“I think in the last one, doesn’t Optimus Prime pick up a little bit of, a shard of the cube, or the thing that’s left, and he takes it with him. Maybe there’s something there… but I don’t know,” he laughs.

We’ll find out on June 25, the film’s Australian release.”

I think Weaving has been a huge star in geeks’ eyes ever since he donned the sunglasses to play Agent Smith, and it’s pretty cool that he’s doing the voice of Megatron once again.

I guess we’ll all find out what other things Bay has lied about when the film comes out on June 24th.

Source: Seibertron