Writers Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci did press rounds for "The Island" in NYC the other day and spoke briefly about how their work on the "Transformers" film adaptation is going. At present they're still working on the script.

Kurtzman told Latino Review that "We talked to Steven Spielberg about it. And he said, 'The action scenes of this movie are a given. But what is this movie really about? It's about a boy and his car.' We understood that immediately, because it's a throwback to the movies we were raised on... right now we're in the process of splitting the narrative, so that part of the movie is that story, and part is about the world's reaction to these aliens arriving - robots in disguise.

They also confirm that a lot of the origin/Cybertron stuff wouldn't be mentioned until a sequel. Around ten Transformers will be seen in the film including the main characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Jazz. Whether Bay will direct or not will be decided upon the script's completion.

Thanks to 'Kellvin'.