Paramount Pictures confirmed Tuesday that Grey’s Anatomy cast member Patrick Dempsey will star in Michael Bay’s third installment of the Transformers franchise.

The plot of the third film is being kept under wraps but we have learned that Dempsey will play Megan Fox’s boss in a role that is very “significant to the plot.”

The movie begins filming in May around the U.S. and in Africa, Moscow and China. The last two Transformers movies have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide.

Transformers 3 will be released next summer - are you excited to see Patrick in this different kind of role? It'll certainly be a departure from the norm for him.

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