Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed

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It hasn't even been a day since Michael Bay revealed to us that John Malkovich and Frances McDormand would be making their way into Transformers 3, and we already have our first news bit about them. The highly decorated actors will play major roles in the movie. McDormand, a one time Academy Award winner, and Malkovich, a two time Academy Award nominee add experience to the set. Thanks to the folks at Deadline.com, we find out their roles in the movie. McDormand is cast to be the National Intelligence Director and Malkovich as Sam's first boss. You can check out the rest of the article here.

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Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056938)
Posted by LiKwid on March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:19pm CDT

Very interesting...So are they trying to make up for the mediocre acting by adding established actors/actresss? Wish Jon Voight would make a return as well..

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056944)
Posted by Liftgate on March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:22pm CDT

I propose that a Space Bridge and the little magic door from Being John Malkovich both work on the very same principle.

In fact, I propose that's how Malkovich wound up in the Transformers universe!

This is more cool news though, John Malkovich is awesome.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056958)
Posted by LeL on March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:40pm CDT

hmmmm.... Sam, Sam's Boss and Leo, I wonder what will they be working on?

1. Allspark containment device
2. Space bridge
3. Deceptabum butt kicking mega robot

I hope Leo comes back :sad:

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056959)
Posted by Torneira on March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:42pm CDT

John Malkovich as Dr. Arkaville?

He certainly has the looks for it !

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056968)
Posted by Alex Jones on March 22nd, 2010 @ 6:40pm CDT

WAIT A MINUTE.. SAM'S BOSS???? BRINGING BACK THE CORE MYTHOLOGY???

Didn't the leaked script with the time travel stuff had a character who was Sam's boss???

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056969)
Posted by partholon on March 22nd, 2010 @ 6:41pm CDT

(re. torneiras post )thats what i was just thinking !

sweet jesus no ! trust bay to think being faithfull to the lore would mean introducing nutty scientists wih hypno chips .

that said a film tweaked version of "ultimate doom" would have some great drama in it (im thinking of the scene where megs forces prime to activate the last pylon or doom cybertron) and it would be one hell of a first look at cybertron itself as it coasts into orbit.

we even have ironhide established to say "i never thought id be sorry to see cybertron "

still on the OP, good moves. both are good actors and i second the call for voight to come back.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056993)
Posted by First-Aid on March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:23pm CDT

PLease tell me you're joking about bringing Voight back... :sad:

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1056999)
Posted by Liftgate on March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:42pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:PLease tell me you're joking about bringing Voight back...

Ok, they're joking about bringing Voight back. They are actually bringing Bernie Mac back instead. :p

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057013)
Posted by Supreme Convoy on March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:25pm CDT

Great choices!

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057031)
Posted by Elita One on March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:05pm CDT

Cool there's gonna be some class in TF 3. Both these actors are great and with McDormand there's another Coen Bros alumni(Fargo).

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057042)
Posted by Alex Jones on March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:28pm CDT

Well if you look at the some of G1 cartoons and possibily some of the later incarnations, there is always a non-Transformer collaborator (Archiville, King Nergill, Sam Burger, etc.) that is going to get something in return from Megatron, even though Megatron plans to betray them anyway.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057066)
Posted by Prime Riblet on March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:18pm CDT

This news is neither good nor bad. It's kind of sad, but both of these people do absolutely nothing for me-good or bad.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057105)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 23rd, 2010 @ 1:15am CDT

Wow...

Those are two huge names that I never expected to be attached to something like this.

Malkovich doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would take this role.

Guess I was wrong on that one.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057118)
Posted by Ultra Markus on March 23rd, 2010 @ 2:27am CDT

Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057123)
Posted by gigazarak on March 23rd, 2010 @ 3:30am CDT

Autobot032 wrote:Wow...

Those are two huge names that I never expected to be attached to something like this.

Malkovich doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would take this role.

Guess I was wrong on that one.

Um, I'm sure the guys no fool, this is a big budget movie, theres money involved, why wouldn't he/they want a piece of it? Oh and add to the fact that Malkovich lost money to Wall Street swindler Bernie Madoffs $50billion Ponzi scheme, then the picture of his involvement becomes clearer...

But you are right, they are peculiar choices for this film, but if the last two films have taught us anything, expect the unexpected from this franchise, good or bad!

Torneira wrote:John Malkovich as Dr. Arkaville?

He certainly has the looks for it !

Hell yeah! They HAVE to do this! It's oblique and strange and placates fans with the whole 'core mythology' line! I'm excited to see what they do with Dr. Arkaville, I mean the guys a freakin' cyborg! Just think of the CGI opportunities right there!

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057134)
Posted by Skullgrin140 on March 23rd, 2010 @ 5:20am CDT

Well, this is somewhat pleasing. Originally I was expecting John Malkovich to play Soundwave, but great to see him & Frances McDormand on Transformers. I'm hoping with those 2 the film wont earn any Razzies as well as the both of them.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057178)
Posted by RiddlerJ on March 23rd, 2010 @ 8:14am CDT

Oh please. I wouldn't be surprised if their roles were just glorified cameos.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057194)
Posted by HECTOR on March 23rd, 2010 @ 8:50am CDT

I agree, Jon Voight should come back to run around shot-gunning cons in the face! He's a lotta fun.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057264)
Posted by Mechabreaker on March 23rd, 2010 @ 11:44am CDT

RiddlerJ wrote:Oh please. I wouldn't be surprised if their roles were just glorified cameos.

I'm honestly thinking the same thing, much like Bernie Mac's role in the first TF movie. Which I have no problem with because Bernie Mac, unlike Tracy Morgan, was actually funny... May he rest in peace.

But we aren't talking about Tracy Morgan, or Bernie Mac, this is Frances McDormand who starred in Fargo, which is a dark but funny film and John Malkovich who starred in friggin' Con Air, which also starred Nic Cage back when he was a good actor. Anyway, I really hope Bay doesn't have them do anything humiliating in this movie (I.E. John Turturro flashing his jock strapped man-ass in ROTF).

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Posted by MYoung23 on March 23rd, 2010 @ 12:05pm CDT

Liftgate wrote:
First-Aid wrote:PLease tell me you're joking about bringing Voight back...

Ok, they're joking about bringing Voight back. They are actually bringing Bernie Mac back instead. :p

Bernie Mac/Jazz headmaster?

Too soon?

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057276)
Posted by Windsweeper on March 23rd, 2010 @ 12:08pm CDT

I'm thinking with Sam's boss and the earlier mention of Silverbolt, we are getting that leaked script. I hope so, I rather enjoyed that with the exception that Leo was in it. HATRED doesn't begin to describe how I feel about him.

I'm hoping that both of these actors will give the film a much needed boost as it really needs to make amends for Revenge.

I'd like to see Anthony Anderson return.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057346)
Posted by SEXFIGHTER on March 23rd, 2010 @ 2:56pm CDT

who cares bout the humans?? They can get whoever they want, i wanna see TRANS-BLOODY-FORMERS.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057350)
Posted by SEXFIGHTER on March 23rd, 2010 @ 3:01pm CDT

Windsweeper wrote:I'm thinking with Sam's boss and the earlier mention of Silverbolt, we are getting that leaked script. I hope so, I rather enjoyed that with the exception that Leo was in it. HATRED doesn't begin to describe how I feel about him.

I'm hoping that both of these actors will give the film a much needed boost as it really needs to make amends for Revenge.

I'd like to see Anthony Anderson return.

Forgive my ignorance but i know nothing of this script... could someone give me a brief synopsis.? :-?

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057351)
Posted by Blurrz on March 23rd, 2010 @ 3:02pm CDT

SEXFIGHTER wrote:who cares bout the humans?? They can get whoever they want, i wanna see TRANS-BLOODY-FORMERS.

You clearly haven't been a Transformers fan for very long. Transformers wouldn't exist without Humans. They've played a major role in every cartoon (minus Beast Era), and that's saying something. I respect your opinion, but c'mon, Humans will break or make this movie. If you only like Robots go play War For Cybertron when it comes out.

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Posted by Mechabreaker on March 24th, 2010 @ 1:00am CDT

Windsweeper wrote:I'd like to see Anthony Anderson return.

I wouldn't mind that either, he was a likable human character in the first film.

Re: Transformers 3 - John Malkovich and Frances McDormand Roles Revealed (1057562)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 24th, 2010 @ 4:21am CDT

Mechabreaker wrote:
Windsweeper wrote:I'd like to see Anthony Anderson return.

I wouldn't mind that either, he was a likable human character in the first film.

I used to think the hacker subplot was great, and I enjoyed Anthony Anderson, I really did.

However, looking back on that film, I realize the other naysayers were right. The hacker subplot simply had no reason to exist, whatsoever.

And it's quite sad, actually. I genuinely liked the cast, I still do, but there's no need for them.

Unless they make it a good reason to bring them back, (and I can't think of one), there's no reason to bring them back, at all.