Dwight and the giant robots
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Rainn Wilson, the hilarious comic actor who plays Dwight Schrute on NBC’s “The Office,” has been given a big-screen role in a great big blockbuster.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wilson has been cast in Michael Bay’s “Transformers 2.” He will join Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro, who starred in last year’s blockbuster big-screen battle between the Autobots and Decepticons.
Filming recently started in Los Angeles and is moving to Pennsylvania and then overseas, according to the trade magazine.
It will be Wilson’s first time to appear in a big-budget studio franchise; he will play a college professor to LaBeouf’s new undergraduate. It’s just a small part, but Wilson took a bit role in “Juno” and parlayed it into something very funny and memorable.
Wilson next will be seen in the starring role in the musical comedy “The Rocker,” opening Aug. 1, and he is working on the screenplay for “Bonzai Shadowhands” with “Juno” director Jason Reitman.
Discussions with Jonah Hill to take another small role did not pan out, according to HR. I can’t say that I’m disappointed; Hill strikes me as the most overexposed (and underdeserving of the hype) member of the Judd Apatow crowd.
-BAM
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