Fox, Duhamel, and Turturro Back for TF II?

The Hollywood Reporter, discussing the casting of Rainn Wilson in Transformers 2, wrote "The sequel to last year's megahit about a race of automotive automatons smashing it out on Earth reteams director Michael Bay with returning stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro."

Interestingly enough this is the first time in print that Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and John Turturro have been mentioned as returning to the film. There has been some doubt that the entire core cast may not return since Rachael Taylor and Anthony Anderson do not appear to be reprising their roles. Nor has Bay been bothered to verify even the casting of any the core cast.

Now this could be just an assumption from the Reporter, I doubt they called Bay's production company and verified the casting but they are probably correct even if only by accident. Shia LaBeouf is a lock. Have the dude so have to have the babe, so Fox is in. Tyrese has already verified the return of himself and Jon Voight. Since those two are back its natural that Josh is returning. Considering that Sector 7 was supposedly dissolved at the end of the first movie the return of John Turturro is a small surprise but more then likely he is will head of another TF related task force.

Any case this is mostly news for confirming what most of us already assumed, but it does leave the door open to speculate just how large (or small) a role each will play in the sequel.