Michael Bay’s PAIN & GAIN is currently top of the US box-office chart with the director arguably receiving some of the best plaudits of his career which, for a change, aren’t coming from teenage boys. He’ll reunite with that film’s lead, Mark Wahlberg, for big-budget action sequel TRANSFORMERS 4 and we can now give you a brand new casting update regarding the major villain.
Television favourite Kelsey Grammer, best known for CHEERS, FRASIER and BOSS, has signed on for the role of Harold Attinger, a corrupt counter intelligence agent who is said to pose the biggest threat to the otherworldly alien race of perfectly-formed robots. No, Megan Fox isn’t in this one. However, Grammer will appear opposite the already cast Stanley Tucci, Jack Raylor and Bay’s up-skirt model this time around, Nicola Peltz.
Grammer’s biggest effort on the silver-screen was Brett Ratner’s comic-book sequel, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND as Dr. Hank McCoy (aka Beast). Fingers crossed TRANSFORMERS 4 can’t be that bad. Then again, as enjoyably dumb as the original was, the follow-ups seriously sucked.
TRANFORMERS 4 hits cinemas 27th June 2014.
Source: Deadline
