Shia LaBeouf's Injury Written Into Transformers Script

"Shia just got back to the set last week," Orci said in an interview in New York on Aug. 25, where he was promoting his upcoming Fox TV series Fringe. "We incorporated his injury into it. Not because it was absolutely necessary, but [director] Michael [Bay] in particular wanted to be able to protect him on the set."

LaBeouf injured his left hand in an auto accident earlier this month. Orci said the film, which is halfway through production, is not being shot in sequence, but that the most demanding action sequences for LaBeouf are still yet to be shot. (Photos of LaBeouf on set, with his hand clearly bandaged, have recently surfaced on the Web.)

"He's still going to be running around in this movie," said Orci, who co-wrote the sequel with his partner, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren Kruger. "[Bay] literally just wanted, for [LaBeouf's] safety, ... to make sure that we weren't playing around with his injury. ... That's why we put it in." Orci added: "The stuff ... where it would be dangerous ... has not been scheduled yet, and that stuff, it's important to put [the injury] in there."