Now that the movie is finally wrapped, I can spend a little more time filling you all in. I have been reading as many of your posts as I can and here are responses to your most popular questions:

First of all, as you probably already know, there is not a teaser trailer on the front of Transformers as many of you had hoped and speculated. We are, however, planning to reveal something very cool very soon. This month, in fact. In San Diego. We've secured a prime slot Saturday afternoon in the big room at SDCC. We will split an hour with Marvel and Hulk and plan to cut something together to reward the fans for their interest, support and patience. In addition to our Saturday afternoon presentation, we will be doing a signing and poster giveaway at the Marvel booth on Saturday. Paramount is also doing a rundown of its slate on Thursday which I will do my best to attend as well.

Second of all, you had questions about Iron Monger/Mandarin/Obadiah Stane. My response is read the books. We took certain liberties to keep things fresh and unexpected but we are essentially using the books to inspire our story. Iron Man fans should have no problem piecing together what's what. As far as what villians appear in this movie's storyline, I should reiterate that in the year spent developing our story we decided to treat Iron Man as a first chapter. We cover the origin story and the rise of the hero. It stands alone as a movie, but definitely leaves room for more to be told. Sequels often feel like the story was slapped together in a scramble to exploit a successful franchise. I prefer when stories are mapped out in advance. They feel less repetitive and arbitrary. Additional Iron Man movies are by no means guaranteed but, if we are lucky enough to do more, we will be ready to do them well.

Third. Cameos. I've read that Sam Jackson and Hilary Swank are Shield agents and that I myself play a Vegas security guard. There is no truth to any of these rumors.

(Well, maybe one is true.)

Jon Favreau wrote:
Now that the movie is finally wrapped, I can spend a little more time filling you all in. I have been reading as many of your posts as I can and here are responses to your most popular questions:

First of all, as you probably already know, there is not a teaser trailer on the front of Transformers as many of you had hoped and speculated. We are, however, planning to reveal something very cool very soon. This month, in fact. In San Diego. We've secured a prime slot Saturday afternoon in the big room at SDCC. We will split an hour with Marvel and Hulk and plan to cut something together to reward the fans for their interest, support and patience. In addition to our Saturday afternoon presentation, we will be doing a signing and poster giveaway at the Marvel booth on Saturday. Paramount is also doing a rundown of its slate on Thursday which I will do my best to attend as well.

Second of all, you had questions about Iron Monger/Mandarin/Obadiah Stane. My response is read the books. We took certain liberties to keep things fresh and unexpected but we are essentially using the books to inspire our story. Iron Man fans should have no problem piecing together what's what. As far as what villians appear in this movie's storyline, I should reiterate that in the year spent developing our story we decided to treat Iron Man as a first chapter. We cover the origin story and the rise of the hero. It stands alone as a movie, but definitely leaves room for more to be told. Sequels often feel like the story was slapped together in a scramble to exploit a successful franchise. I prefer when stories are mapped out in advance. They feel less repetitive and arbitrary. Additional Iron Man movies are by no means guaranteed but, if we are lucky enough to do more, we will be ready to do them well.

Third. Cameos. I've read that Sam Jackson and Hilary Swank are Shield agents and that I myself play a Vegas security guard. There is no truth to any of these rumors.

(Well, maybe one is true.)

Cool news. I think one is and thats you as a security guard. But can't wait to see the first trailer, I'm psyched to see what is up.

Thanks JFav! Very excited about the teaser!!! Hope everyone reads this very closely.

i thought the panel at comic-con was going to be on thursday like you said earlier and what it says thursday too, on the program at the comic-con website. did it just change?

Stevo wrote:
i thought the panel at comic-con was going to be on thursday like you said earlier and what it says thursday too, on the program at the comic-con website. did it just change?

oh nevermind, you're doing 2 panels on two different days. one for paramount and one for marvel.

Thanks! Sounds awesome! Now I'm just waiting to see who's the first person to post a complaint about something here...

And I heard a rumor that you weren't playing a security guard but were in the background in a club night scene as the front man for a KISS coverband. If that's true...RADICAL!

It sucks living on the east coast.:(

Jon, thank you SO MUCH for keeping us informed. I have no doubt that Iron Man will be amazing, and whatever we see at SDCC will amaze our pants off.

=)
I wish I could go...

I hope the Sam Jackson thing is the one that's true.

adrian wrote:
It sucks living on the east coast.:(

It really does.

I'm so glad Jon Fav and company are doing the big show on Saturday! I'm going to try to go to both the signing and the showing.

PS I'll try to post here anything I can afterwards to let you everyone else know whats what.

Thanks for the info bro!

SWEEEET!! thanx for postin Jon. i'm sure the teaser's gonna be awesome!

I love how he says the first chapter will cover the "rise", because it implies that eventually there will be a "fall".

Thanks as always for coming by and filling us in, it's very appreciated.

I had to dismiss the idea of coming down for Thursday, but a Saturday gig I may be able to do. Beyond awesome.

Iraq out with my "Josh" out wrote:

adrian wrote:
It sucks living on the east coast.:(

It really does.

I'm so glad Jon Fav and company are doing the big show on Saturday! I'm going to try to go to both the signing and the showing.

PS I'll try to post here anything I can afterwards to let you everyone else know whats what.

Looking forward to it, thanks!

Tenacious high five, Jon! Here's hoping for Sam Jackson!