Jonah Hill is in early negotiations to co-star with Shia LaBeouf in "Transformers 2" for DreamWorks and Paramount.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Hill ("Superbad," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall") will provide the comic relief as a Princeton college roommate of Sam Witwicky (LaBeouf) who runs a conspiracy theory website.

The sequel will begin shooting shortly and is scheduled for a release on June 26th 2009.