10 Actors Who Got Kicked Out Of Their Own Movie Franchises

You can certainly argue that the CGI robots are the real highlight of Michael Bay's Transformers franchise, though the series has, for better or worse, placed a large focus on its human characters.

Initially, the series was fronted by Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, and though LaBeouf managed to quit the franchise after three movies before he could be put out to pasture, Fox didn't last quite so long.

Fox appeared in the first two movies and, as the girlfriend of LaBeouf's protagonist Sam Witwicky, was widely expected to return for the threequel, Dark of the Moon.

But plans changed after Fox infamously compared Bay to Hitler while doing press for the second film, and at the apparent urging of executive producer Steven Spielberg, Bay opted not to invite her back for the third.

As a result, Fox's character Mikaela Banes was quietly written out and replaced with a new love interest for Sam, Carly Spencer, as played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Sadly between Huntington-Whiteley's flat performance and how horribly the character was written, it wasn't a great change.

Though Fox's career hasn't been up to much in recent years, her and Bay clearly buried the hatchet, as she appeared in both Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as iconic reporter April O'Neil.