According to sources close to the production of Transformers 3, Megan Fox will not return as Mikaela Banes in the next installment of the franchise.  Way back in October director Michael Bay shared his thought about the future of the character, and they weren’t pretty; he was planning to kill her off somehow, someway.  And now it’s pretty much confirmed that Fox will not be back.  Interestingly, however,  “it was her decision not to return” according to Fox’s reps.  Still, if that is indeed the case, Bay must be thrilled to change the direction of the story by introducing a new love interest for Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky.  The rest of us…not so much.  I’d say that there’s no reason to sit through another iteration of Transformers without Fox on-screen, but with the recent addition of actor Alan Tudyk (Firefly, V, Dollhouse) I see a glimmer of hope.

[Via EW-HollywoodInsider; People]