Almost a year ago, we brought you a report from director Michael Bay, who released the identity of what he called the newest Autobot to join the cast of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, a red Ferrari 458 Italia. Back in July, we brought you some video from the Chicago set of the film, showing a group of military men sky diving through the center of the city wearing squirrel suits.

What do these two things have in common? They’re both a part of some spoilers revealed in this month’s Empire Magazine.

[Spoilers Below! You have been warned]

Bay told the magazine,

• There will be no sand.
• There will be no dorky humor (“We wanted to make the movie much more serious, more adult.”)
• When a robot dies, it will actually die. And that death will be shown onscreen.
• The robots will be given more ‘weight’ in the story (“They were missed in movie two. We’ve given them a strong back-story and pathos.”)
• Sentinel Prime is “A big brother and mentor to Optimus Prime”.
• The Ferrari is a Decepticon nicknamed ‘Dreadbox’.
• Starscream and Shockwave will have new companions. “The scale on one of them is jaw dropping” – “It will be ‘what the Hell was that thing?”
• The Apollo 11 ‘incident’ show in the teaser is a big government secret.
• There will be no army. Chicago is left in the hands of the Autobots (but some heroes sneak in through the back-door so to speak).
• The human gliders are used because they slip under the Decepticons’ radar – as do humans – so they’ll be the people who can hammer it to the ‘Cons and create an opening for the Autobots.

So, the Ferrari has apparently changed sides from Autobot to Decepticon since Bay’s first announcement, and those troops gliding through the city of Chicago in squirrel suits apparently have a rather important role in the battle.

In addition to the spoilers released in the magazine, we also have an image of the cover below (featuring Sentinel Prime and Optimus Prime). Check it out!

Here are close-ups of the two bots below

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If you want a look at our original article about the Ferrari, click HERE.

If you want a look at the video of the guys gliding through Chicago in squirrel suits, click HERE (last video on the page).

Transformers: Dark of the Moon hits theaters on July 1st, 2011 and 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.