We all know that Rose Huntington-Whiteley was brought in as the new eyecandy element when allegedly what was left of Megan Fox refused to eat a sammich and Bay decided to move on.
Everywhere I read it, she was to be playing some scientist girl or some scholar of some sort, not outright replacing the actor for the role of Mikaela, and those assumptions might just be right. And the name of her character is Carly.
Well IMDB currently lists her as Mikaela, but as it turns out, that’s not the case. I’m not sure if this has been reported on before, but this is the first time I’ve seen confirmation that Huntington-Whitely is playing Carly, who according to lore, eventually becomes Carly Witwicky, Sam’s wife in the Transformers animated series.
According to The Transformers Wiki Carly is a character from the G1 Animated series who is an MIT graduate and somewhat of a gifted genius. She meets Spike and Bumblebee in an episode titled Robot Arcade and is eventually welcomed as one of the Autobots human pals becoming a reoccurring role in the show.
In the post Animated Feature Film portion of the G1 series, set in the year 2006, Carly and Spike are married, are Earth’s ambassadors to Cybertron and have a son named Daniel.
Actually, the episode in which Carly was introduced is called “The Immobilizer”. She meets Spike and Bumblebee at Robots Video Arcade (suggesting she’s also a bit of a video game geek).
Carly wasn’t utilized much in G1. She appears in six present-day episodes (one of which was a silent cameo) and three 2006-era episodes (one of which was a bit part, and another of which was a silent cameo). She doesn’t even appear in the episode dealing with her son’s birthday. What that says of her role as a parent, I’ll leave up to you to decide.
Well, that’s great, a nice little throw-back to G1. I just wonder how they are going to explain what happened to the Mikeala character. Did they break up? Was she killed? Maybe those parts that were filmed with Megan Fox before the announcement she was gone is going to be her death scene? All I can say is that my interest in this movie has definitely peaked.
A simple “we broke up” in a line of dialogue is enough to dismiss her character. She was eyecandy and validation of Sam’s own self image. There isn’t any reason other than “she was in the first two” to keep her around anyways.
well i think micheal bay made a HUGE mistake of kicking megan fox out so if he hears this i dont care he was an idiot to let her leave becauses megan fox mmade those movies everything
You might want to watch the movies again. Megan Fox is so secondary to the film and just offers a pretty girl to look at. Nothing more.
It wasn’t a mistake to remove a terrible actress who did not listen to what the director wanted her to do. She had one simple role in the film. Look hot. That’s all. She was loosing weight like crazy and acting like a primadonna.
Fox got what she deserved. And taking her out wont hurt the movies one bit. They already found another hot girl to be in the movie. Done.
Megan Fox may have been eye candy, but they made such a big deal(plot point) of their love in the second movie to just kill her off 2 minutes into the 3rd movie and replace her..That’s stupid.
Who says Fox’s character is dying? Sam struggles with their relationship all through the second film and it only becomes important in the midst of crisis. As soon as things calm down again they struggle again.
People part ways, and one line of dialogue stating she had different plans for her life and shes out of the script. No big.
Sam gets with Carly in the original cartoon, so if they are going to replace the actress anyways, why not do that in the films too?
I can understand some wanting to keep Megan Fox in the Transformer 3 movie for continuity’s sake, but not at the cost of the production. ‘Eye Candy’ or not, Michael Bay and producers (and the entire crew and cast) has worked WAY to hard on these movies for one spoiled actress to possibly hurt these films. Megan Fox thought she had a bargaining chip with Bay over her role in these movies and tried to use it. Bay didn’t want to boot her off the cast, but Fox pushed it too far. She wanted things done her way, not the Director’s and Producer’s. Almost any director is open to opinions from their actors (and usually appreciate them, and usually take them into consideration), but they surely don’t like the actor/actress to TELL them how it’s going to be. It’s simple- work with the Director, offer opinions if you want, but don’t overstep them. If Fox had been professional and done this, Bay would have gladly kept her. But he’s not about to let someone ruin what he’s worked so hard for.
I think its great that they added another character from G1 for the 3rd film considering its the last one of a trilogy.