No Megatron in TF2?

JoBlo.com reader “mayhem23” got himself a copy of Empire’s new 2009 preview issue and saw some pretty interesting comments from director Michael Bay in the section about TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. [There may be some SPOILERS ahead so I’ll warn you now…] Most significant perhaps is that Bay “emphatically” insists there will be no Megatron in TRANSFORMERS 2. Says Bay, “He’s not in this movie. That’s not misinformation. The tank design you may have seen is just Hasbro coming up with a new toy.” Interesting. Of course Bay could be yanking all our chains but that’s a long way to go for throwing us off course.

Bay also gives some context to the scene shown here. That is John Turturro being chazed up the side of a pyramid by a giant Transformer. Devastator. “Imagine six or seven or eight massive earth-moving vehicles, with tires as big as that tree,” says Bay. “It’s going to be gigantic.”

So what do you think? Do you believe Bay? Do you really think there will be no Megatron in TRANSFORMERS 2 and that The Fallen will be the sole villain?