Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, the most important of which is Egypt. The main hurdle in getting the film produced was overcoming the 20072008 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America ...