Paramount Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for director Michael Bay‘s forthcoming entry in the Transformers franchise, entitled Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Ken Jeong, Patrick Dempsey and Alan Tudyk.

Check out the poster below!

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is slated to hit theaters on July 1st, 2011.