Michael Bay will direct "Transformers 3".
But didn't anyone actually doubt he wouldn't?
Paramount has confirmed the third installment in the bloated-robots-Vs-Tyrese saga will hit theatres on July 1, 2011.
Though Bay was said to be keener on a 2012 release date (that might have given him time to helm the recently announced "Bad Boys 3"),
Variety says he's agreed to the new date, and has been ''begun meeting with ILM and Hasbro [and] scribe Ehren Kruger to hash out plans for the pic''.
Shia LaBeouf
and Megan 'Michael Bay is a Monster' Fox will return for the second sequel to the 2007 hit.
As the trade states, 2011 is shaping up to be the quite the year - the Decepticons will be going head-to-head with Spider-Man, Thor, Harry Potter, Captain America, Kung Fu Panda
, The Smurfs and The Green Lantern! (Thankfully there isn't a new "Baby Geniuses" scheduled that year, so Bay's yet to cash in his prescription for Alprazolam).
