Dwight Schrute, by some known as Rainn Wilson, will have a small part in the new ‘Transformers’ movie. Will Michael Bay actually put some fun into his new $200 million toy project? First Jonah Hill almost made the cast and now ‘The Office’ funnyman Rainn Wilson. “Isn’t that crazy?,” Wilson said. He’ll play a college professor. “A professor that turns into a car that turns into a robot,” he added. Sadly that isn’t true.

‘Transformers 2′ will be shooting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania June 2-4. Paramount told residents the shoot will include “both camera and military helicopters, large scale pyrotechnics, prop guns and squibs, and large lights.” I’m sure some photos will turn up around that time.

Farlanders

Release date: TBA, 2009
Budget: unknown

Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Daniels
Produced by: Big Beach Films, Neal Street and Edward Saxon Productions
Filming location: Connecticut

There isn’t as much info on ‘Farlanders’ as in our last ‘In production’ post about ‘Bunraku,’ but I’ll work with what I’ve got here. ‘Farlanders’ is Sam Mendes’ sixth movie since he made it big with ‘American Beauty’ in 1999. Yes, it’s almost ten years since you first saw ‘American Beauty,’ which got no less than 5 Oscars.

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Director Sam Mendes, who also made ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Jarhead,’ is starting production on his new romantic comedy in Connecticut this week. The Universal project just added Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara (photoshopped above) to the cast and is about a family trying to find the right place to start a family.

Other than the new cast members above, the movie will star John Krasinski (’The Office’) and Maya Rudolph (’Saturday Night Live’). No release date or year is currently set.