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Matthew Marsden Joins The Cast Of Transformers 2
Another human crams into Transformers 2! We get wind today that Matthew Marsden has joined the cast thanks to our friends at MTV:
MTV News has learned that Matthew Marsden is the newest addition to the cast of “Transformers 2.” He joins a high-powered cast returning for the sequel to last year’s blockbuster, including Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese. Marsden hooks up with Michael Bay’s super-franchise for the sequel much like Rainn Wilson, whose casting was revealed last week by MTV.
Marsden has been cast in the role of “Graham,” a character who is part of the British Special Forces. Although the film’s plot is being kept under the tightest veils of secrecy, it is known that the flick will depict an even more worldly battle than the first “Transformers” film, and will shoot all over the globe. In the sequel, Graham teams with Duhamel and Tyrese’s military characters, joining their efforts as they do battle with the evil Decepticons.
Good! That’s what I want to see, more humans fighting deceptions. I love it when a cast becomes bloated with characters I don’t give a shit about. The casting news coming out of the Transformers camp continues to disappoint, and well up worry with me. I wasn’t thrilled with the first film, but had high hopes that the mistakes would be remedied in the follow up film. Instead, it looks like more of the same is being shucked together.
Who knows when the list of actors will stop. The number of actors that they are getting for this film is starting to be comedic. With luck, we will still have robot to robot dialogue than we did in the first film. I would like to see Megatron give all of the decepticons a pep talk at least once in the film.
I hope the Decepticons pay the Queen a visit then destroy Big Ben haha
Theres talk of the Transformer cast list increasing past 20. I don’t get why people are worried about humans being cast in this movie. Just because Matthew Marsden is in it and his character has a name and a role doesn’t mean he’ll have more screen time than Bumblebee.
TF1 was the Origin Story. TF2 is the war. Humans fighting Decepticons is fine because humans will LOSE.
I’ve been a fan of Transformers for years now and any time someone shit on the movie I had to say that I was only expecting from the movie what I hadn’t seen in comics, and thats large robots realisitically fighting. TF2 will continue to deliver that. You want a TF story with no humans, brutal fights, and a great story? Its called “The War Within” and its only available on a printed page.
I have extremely low expectations for TF2. Bay will give us exactly what we got before…which was entertaining, but damn I hated most of the campy jokes and what was suppose to be funny scenes.
I just hope the English accents aren’t too clipped.
“Blaady hell that Lazerbeak’s a tricky blighter; i can’t quite get him in my sights squadron leader sir”
Something that I still don’t get from the first one that will hopefully be addressed in the second: so the Transformers have a HUGE fight in downtown LA where tons of people have seen them up close. Buildings are damaged. With all that chaos and destruction, there’s gotta be at least ONE human casualty. For Pete’s sake, Optimus and Megatron fly THROUGH A PACKED BUILDING. There’s no way that EVERYONE dives out of the way just in time. Yet, the end of the movie tells us that Optimus and company are watching over us “in secret” and the evidence of Megatron has been dumped in the ocean. Basically, they’re saying that no one knows about them, right? Okay, I’m no genius, but don’t you think that people know about the Transformers now that a few city blocks and a few civilians have been destroyed by them? Hell, even that fight on the highway when Bonecrusher blows through that bus and throws those cars out of his way…those cars weren’t driving themselves. People have SEEN them. How are they secret? Wouldn’t the public like some answers as to how a few city blocks in a highly populated city were wrecked? If this next one takes them fighting ’round the world and still tries to convince me by the end credits that no one knows about them, I’m calling bullshit. I think it would be a cool idea to let the cat out of the bag, and watch the world’s reaction to the news. Imagine a scene of people cautiously tiptoeing through a parking lot, knowing that there might be a Decepticon out there…
And yeah, I’m thinking way too hard about a film directed by Michael Bay, but come on now. I can only suspend my disbelief so much.
haha good point Kristina
LoL, Kristina – you certainly are reading too much into a Bay movie. I bet they would use some MIB type of excuse and wipe peoples minds so that they cover up the whole giant robot thing.