Source: Variety

According to Variety, Jon Voight has joined the cast of Michael Bay's big-budget actioner THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE.

The DreamWorks/Paramount live-action production starts lensing later this month, with release scheduled for July 4, 2007.

Voight is the latest actor confirmed by the studio in a cast that has received a lot of attention online. While a casting list recently leaked onto the Internet, many of the rumored names are not likely to end up in the film.

A source close to the production said Josh Duhamel, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Megan Fox and John Robinson are expected to round out the cast. Travis Van Winkle and Shia LeBeouf have already been announced.

"Transformers" is based on the comicbook, cartoon and Hasbro toy line hugely popular in the 1980s. Story centers on the central saga of the Autobots vs. the Decepticons.