Well that’s an interesting bit, now isn’t it, folks?  Seems that Michael Bay and the crew at Platinum Dunes aren’t letting grass grow under their feet since their impending release of Nightmare on Elm Street.  In fact, by all accounts so far, they’re going to be ready to start shooting Transformers 3 by the end of May.

The word comes from Shia LaBeouf’s agent, CAA, that had this to say:

“He’ll likely start work in May on Transformers 3.”

Granted, that’s not a whole lot of support–he’ll LIKELY start work in May, about the same wait that Sam Raimi was LIKELY to start shooting Spider Man 4 by now. Five months is an eternity in movie circles and absolutely anything can happen between now and then.

While it may not be an absolute certainty that shooting will start in May, it’s safe enough to call it a fair bet.  This makes it an even fairer bet that we should see this in time for summer 2011.