By Michael Pellegrini
NEXT month sees more robot action in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which this time features Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the love interest.
You'll recall that Victoria's Secret lingerie model Rosie joined the cast after the abrupt exit of Megan Fox. And that controversy has reared its head again, with more insight into what happened.
Ms Fox's departure - which came after she compared Michael Bay to Hitler - is mentioned in a cast and crew interview running in GQ this July.
In excerpts from the interview, featured on the magazine's website, Bay reveals the film's executive producer Steven Spielberg had been the one behind the decision to axe Megan from the project. Bay says: "She was in a different world, on her BlackBerry. You gotta stay focused. And you know, the Hitler thing. Steven said 'Fire her right now.'"
Spielberg's response to Fox's ill-judged remarks comes as no surprise, especially if you consider he used the profits of his film Schindler's List to set up the Shoah Foundation, which archives the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.
On the Avengers front, Samuel L. Jackson has told how he got into trouble with Marvel after his script for the superhero ensemble was stolen and offered for sale on the internet.
Jackson (right) tells WENN: "When they sent me the new version of the script, I was shooting a film in Toronto and my assistant copied it from the email [and printed it] in the office somewhere. And by the time we got to Albuquerque someone had stolen the script out of the printer and put it online for sale.
"I didn't know printers had memories. And apparently my assistant didn't either. Marvel/Disney kind of got really upset about it. It caused a minor storm of investigation. They sent a team of investigators to Canada. They were trying to [track down] the IP address of the person that put it online. It was crazy."
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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