Transformers 4 casts two young leads

Michael Bay has cast two young actors alongside Mark Wahlberg in Transformers 4 .

Twitch is reporting that Nicola Peltz and Brenton Thwaites have been cast after an extensive auditioning process.

Peltz, best known for a role in The Last Airbender and soon to be seen in Psycho prequel TV series Bates Motel , will play Wahlberg’s daughter, with Thwaites set to play her biker boyfriend.

Thwaites made his name on Home And Away (like Transformers 2 star Isabel Lucas), and has filmed a role in Maleficent , with Angelina Jolie.

Transformers proved to be one hell of a springboard for Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, so expect all eyes to be on this pair in 2014.

It’ll be interesting to see if Bay adds any more A-list names to the call-sheet ( Dark Of The Moon had Frances McDormand and John Malkovich in sideline roles).

Transformers 4 is expected to hit UK cinemas on 27 June 2014.

Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.