Last week, MichaelBay.com released a video consisting of a scene from the beginning of the film & a montage of mostly CGI stuff… & then pulled it down. Download 720p here (38MB).

The first footage shows Sam explaining to Bumblebee (in his garage) why he can't bring his car to college... with Megan Fox stripping in between.

In the background, there are  firemen cleaning up Sam's house. Was there an attack?

The second part of the video starts with a close-up of a battered-looking Optimus Prime.

A Decepticon cutting open Sam's car (a real car!) & Starscream spitting at him.

The Audi R8.

The insecticon.

Jetfire.

Mixmaster.

Bumblebee fighting against a Constructicon.

Devastator!!!

Optimus Prime getting a karate chop from Megatron. Note Blackout revived on the left.

Bumblebee & the Twins at Petra.

Scalpel torturing someone.

Jetfire once again.

Megatron battling Starscream.

Wheelie!

Optimus Prime punching the hell out of Megatron.

So in all, a really teasing frickingly awesome montage with still some unfinished special effects. Notice Shia still has his fingers bandaged & you can see Devastator floating with the wrong shadows… & I think the best is yet to come with the theatrical trailer to be released next week.

Among other Transformers news, Linkin Park have announced on mikeshinoda.com that they are indeed working on the film’s score under the guidance of composer Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight) & they are currently doing the theme song!

BREAKING NEWS: Linkin Park will be working on the score for Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen.

Although I wasn't at liberty to say it before, the song I've been referencing here on mikeshinoda.com in the past few weeks...is actually being done for Michael Bay's new Transformers film, due out June 24th.

In addition--and probably ever cooler--we have been offered the unique opportunity to help score the film. The song we wrote is being used as one of the themes, and we will be writing various interpolations on that theme, and trying out some other thematic ideas as part of the (very large) team scoring the film.

My bandmates and I are working with award-winning film composer (and resident ass-kicker) Hans Zimmer. We met with Hans last week, and heard some of the incredible things he and his guys have done with our new song. In the next few days, we'll be doing some work with Hans' amazing writing and recording crew.

Michael Bay has shown us select scenes from the film, and it looks incredible. I can't wait for you to see it.

One more thing… Here are the comics that detail events between the two films. If you are a Transformers fan, these are for you: ;)
- The Reign of Starscream - Issue 01, 02, 03, 04 & 05
- Defiance - Issue 01, 02, 03 & 04
- Alliance - Issue 01, 02, 03 & 04
- Transformers (1) Prequel & adaptation - part1, part2.
You’ll need CDisplay to read the cbr files. Download here.

Note: My post frequency had dropped down lately because of the tests & all. & I won’t be posting much in May as well coz of the exams. :(