Megan Fox played an important role as Mikaela Banes in the first two Michael Bay-directed Transformers films. Here, she served as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky. However, she was reportedly fired from the third film and replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who played Witwicky’s new girlfriend. Fans have grown curious about why Fox was supposedly fired from the Transformers franchise.
Here is everything we have learned about the situation.
Why did Megan Fox get reportedly fired from the Transformers franchise?
The official reason for Megan Fox’s firing from the Transformers franchise is unknown. However, reports suggest that it was caused by her controversial remarks about Michael Bay.
In a 2009 Wonderland interview, Fox likened Bay’s work ethic to that of Hitler’s dictatorship and also compared him to Napoleon. She also claimed that she and LaBeouf “almost die” when they make a Transformers film. Additionally, she claimed that Bay makes them do over-the-top things. However, she called him “hopelessly awkward,” “vulnerable,” and “fragile” in real life, adding that he had no “social skills.”
Deadline initially reported that these comments had caused her firing. However, they later clarified via Fox’s PR representative that it was not the case and that Fox chose not to return.
Michael Bay later attributed Megan Fox’s firing to Steven Spielberg in a GQ interview, claiming Spielberg was offended by her Hitler comments. Here, Bay also admitted he had not been offended by what she said. He opined that Fox said those things to elicit a response from people. The director also claimed that Fox was “in a different world, on her BlackBerry.” However, Spielberg denied Bay’s claims.
Despite this, Fox and Bay ultimately worked together again in the 2014 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, and its 2016 sequel Out of the Shadows, where Bay served as a producer, and Fox starred as April O’Neil.
