[ED: Our brothers over at Film School Rejects asked yesterday: Are we getting too much information about Transformers 2? Agree with them you might, but onwards we must go.

The B&U lives off rumor and gossip much more than news that’s in the trades. We might be wrong, but we do our best.

That being said, all pertinent spoiler information will now be placed below the cut for those who don’t want their good time ruined a full-year before the movie comes out.]

Two interesting “plot” points coming out of the internet today, surrounding Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

The first comes from Empire Online, who was talking to one of the E7 stars, Josh Duhamel, who is back with the giant robots after a brief stint on When in Rome:

“I guess who he’s working with is probably the biggest change,” said Duhamel, before adding once more, presumably for emphasis. “Who he’s working with.”

He’s not working for the military anymore? Is there something larger at play than Autobots Vs. Decepticons? Are we really going to get to see Fallen? Unicorn? Really?

The second little tidbit comes from The Movie Blog and from a “trusted source”:

t happens that they were in the classroom scene that was being shot yesterday with Rainn Wilson. The shoot was to cover two separate days within the movie, the first day of classes for Sam, and the second day of class.

On the first day of class, Sam goes crazy just before getting to class for some reason. It seems there is some object that he was exposed to that affected him, our guess is the splinter from the cube. Anyways, Rainn Wilson asks the class to turn to the first page of the text book (which, apparently, Rainn Wilson’s character is the professor of the class AND the writer of the Astronomy text book that they are using in class). Wilson’s character’s name is Professor Colon (pronounced: koh - lawn). Everyone except Sam turns to the first page. Sam, instead, read the entire book in 5 seconds by just flipping through it, then starts telling Wilson’s character about what parts of his book are wrong. He also starts talking about how Einstein was wrong. Sam gets up from his seat and goes up to the chalk board and starts writing a lot of weird symbols on the chalk board (probably Cryptonian). Then he starts asking why nobody understands and then he leaves class. On the second day of class, he apparently returns, but acts less crazy.

The reason we suspect that it is an object he touches that makes him crazy is because there was a scene shot earlier where he was on the phone Fox’s character Mikaela, and he was asking her if she had “it” and then told her to make sure she doesn’t touch “it”. Our guess is the “splinter” (left over piece of the Allspark Cube), but it could be something else, of course.

Oh, and the last scene that was filmed on Wednesday evening was of Sam arriving to class while riding the red motorcycle that people have seen in pictures. I don’t think that proves whether or not it is a Transformer or just a motorcycle, but it could be worthwhile information in the future.

Whoo! We hear at the B&U have been blaming the All Spark Splinter for lots of stuff since the first Transformers. But, that’s because we have named certain parts of the male anatomy “The All Spark Splinter.” As in: “Maybe I’ll slip her The All Spark Splinter later on tonight – if she enjoys Wall-E.”