NEW BLOG ENTRY: "I'm Baccck!"

What's up fans? I am back from filming Quantum of Solace overseas. Filming has wrapped and I am sooo glad to be back home in Sunny L.A. I actually got back Tuesday and got to spend my third Thanksgiving in a row with an old friend, Naomi de la Fuente. What a magical evening we had, as usual. I don't think I've met a woman with a smile that can make me melt the way hers does. Our friendship means alot to me and it was good to see her and her family again since they have always been great to me and we've been very close since I lived with them briefly during the filming of The Believers. It's especially good to spend time with all of them since right now I am in the process of moving from the Laguna apartment we are neighbors in and purchasing a mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Anyway, after eating with her and her family me and her and some of her friends partied the night away at Voyuer here in L.A. Here's a photo I took on my new iPhone of Naomi (blue dress) and her friends.

Just a few quick updates as to what is going on with me:

BOND: Filming Bond was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Director Christopher Nolan has an incredible film planned for you all. This isn't your grandfather's James Bond movie. There's real heart here. It's just as much tragic love story as it is spy film. The action is insane. The opening car chase alone in Italy is SICK! You will see Bond in a way you never have before. Raw emotion. Remember this is a prequel, origin story. He does not even earn his 00 license until the final scene. Bond isn't cold...yet. He isn't sophisticated, yet. But he will be and you will see how he gets that way. He is hot headed, lonely, looking for love, and emotional. He's reckless. He makes mistakes. You'll see real reasons for why he is the way he is now. Why he says his last name first when introducing himself. Why he orders his drinks shaken and not stirred. Why he distrusts women. This film will thrill you and have you in tears by the end. Both men and women will enjoy it. They really will. Chris joked with me at the wrap party, 'don't forget to thank me when you win the Oscar'. Ha, I doubt it, but we'll see. I have never EVER put so much of myself into a character, and for the first time, I WANT people to see me up on that screen. Wearing Bond's skin of course. I hope you all see the film the way I do when it comes out June 17, 2011. Here are some photos just for you guys....

LOOK AT ME NOW: Over the next 6 weeks I will be hard at work in the editing room putting the finishing touches on my independent film I directed earlier this year starring Chandler Massey and Alley Vendetta. This film is crazy! No film has ever dug deeper into the adult film industry than this movie. My young cast do a tremendous job and I think they will become stars. If you are not watching Chandler on Days of our Lives as Will, shame on you! He is such a great actor and a very interesting person. As for Alley, what can I say? She's nuts. She's a firecracker! ADHD doesn't begin to describe her. But my life wouldn't be the same without her. She is truly one of my two best friends in the whole world (Franco the other). She really gets me. Not many people do. She is one of the deepest, coolest, most intriguing, and most genuine human beings I have ever met and so incredibly talented, musically, acting-wise, etc. She's in the process of recording a solo CD right now, as well as writing a book on her life (at 16 she has lived through stuff people four times her age shouldn't go through) and oh yea, her band Secrets and Sunsets is still on tour rockin' the nation with their awesome music. So all you TMZ people, if you see her and me out and about in L.A., don't get any ideas. I am letting her help me in the editing room and yes we hang out sometimes. Nothing more. Anyway, look for a trailer at the end of December and for the film to be in select theaters near you January 28, 2011.

MY NEW BOOK: Big news! I am writing a new book. Alley and Tyrese Gibson have inspired me to write a book. I have been going through a ton as you all know and I need to not only let it out to keep whatever sanity I have left but I also need to help others. The book will be about relationships and staying away from bad ones. It will also touch on suicide and depression. I have been doing tons and tons of research on psychology and women (partially in preparation for my role as a girl in next year's My Sister's Keeper) and partially due to my self therapy I have been doing. I vowed never to go to rehab again. I am proud to say I am strong enough to change my life on my own and I am now planning on not having sex outside of committed relationships. I no longer want to be a slave to my demons. I am growing and maturing and I know it won't be easy but I am trying. I have alot of good people in my life helping me with this and changing your life for the better means changing some of the negative people in your life. Look for the book to hit stores next summer.

-Til Next time, The Chameleon.

Michael featured in Megan Fox BIOGRAPHY

Last night on the Biography channel they did an episode on Megan Fox's life and rise to fame. Michael was featured in several parts and discussed her and their relationship in 2005 and 2006. His first main comment was "She IS, in a way, this generation's Marilyn Monroe, only for the fact that she has fabricated this image of herself as this mysterious sex vixen whose so wild and crazy when in reality, she is the sweetest, nicest, shyest, stay at home girl. It's an act. But she doesn't want people to know that because she thinks it makes her boring."

Megan and Michael at his Nov. 2005 premiere for Kingdom of Heaven

Megan and a blonde Michael take in a Lakers game in March 2006

Michael goes on to explain how they met. "I was at a party in L.A. a friend invited me to. It was a rough summer for me. Me and Kristen (Bell) had just broken up, ended our engagement. It was my first night out in a while. I saw her from across the room and thought wow, she's one of the hottest girls I've ever seen in my life. My friend I was with encouraged me to talk to her so I did and she was very sweet. We exchanged phone numbers and it went from there." He adds that "The first few months was all sex, no real relationship. It was open. We fought alot. She was partying alot, smoking weed, I was still a goody goody back then. Then I went to shoot 16 Grams and that obviously changed me. Started experimenting with drugs. We took a break. I dated Julia Fonda for a bit, then she passed away. Megan really helped me through that. She was great. But I wasn't so squeaky clean anymore. And we got back together. I thought we'd be closer than ever and we were for a while".



They dated seriously again from February 2006 to that summer when Michael went off to film Popular 3 and she got the break of a lifetime to star in Transformers. Some controversy occured when photos were taken of her grabbing the crotch of 90210 star Brian Austin Green, who visited the Transformers set. Her and Michael broke up after an angry phone call where he confronted her about the photo. There were also rumors that Megan slept with director Michael Bay to get the role in Transformers. Meyers conceded "There ARE rumors as to how she really got the role in Transformers..."

Michael concluded with saying "She was fun man. She's a fun girl. I love her. This is her time now. She is the IT girl of this era. She has entered the pop culture lexicon as the standard of beauty. Like for girls when they talk about a guy, they'll say 'well he was hot but he was no Brad Pitt'. Well with guys when they talk about a girl it's, 'well she was hot but she's no Megan Fox'. That's what she's become. But it's all been built off her looks and aura, not acting talent. So just like Marilyn Monroe, we're left wondering what else is there. Sadly with Marilyn she died before we ever got the answer to that question. But with Megan, she's still here so she has time. We'll see what she does with it and where she takes it".

Kat Von D Regrets Tattooing Meyers' Neck

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D (real name Kristine Papciak) was recently on Carson Daly's show promoting her new book and mentioned Michael Reese Meyers. Meyers in October 2008 visited her famous tattoo shop in West Hollywood, California to get Mel Morley's first name inked on his neck. The experience was filmed for her E! reality show 'L.A. Ink'. Meyers during his 10 weeks of rehab that winter spent alot of time in her shop (he is seen in several episodes visiting) and became very close friends with Kat. She mentions in her Carson Daly interview how the two "are like brother and sister now" and at one point "he was there four or five days a week, just lonely, wanting to just hang out and watch". Kat calls Meyers "a very deep and troubled soul, but ultimately a good person". Regarding the Mel tattoo, as the LA Ink episode showed, Kat strongly warned Meyers not to get it. "I told him over and over, you're gonna regret it. Don't ever get someones name tattooed on you. Not even your kids". But Meyers insisted and she caved. "I regret it to this day. I turn down all kinds of tattoos all the time if I feel it isn't right because I feel it's my job as the artist to do the right thing, even if the customer wants something else. But in his case, I saw how bad he wanted it and I wanted to make him happy. But I wish I could take it back. I know down the line he will look back and wish he hadn't done it. He just has to."

Meyers to reunite with Knightley in Cameron Crowe romantic drama

According to Collider.com, Michael has recently signed on to star in the Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown) directed romantic affair drama "If I Had You" starring himself, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and newcomer Rosie Huntington. The film is romantic drama expert Crowe's first story to take place in England. Keira and Sam play Joanna and Michael Fisher, an English husband and wife who begin to drift apart after Keira suspects her husband is having an affair with his co-worker Lara Dunn (Huntington). When Michael and Lara attend a business trip alone together, Joanna runs into her former drug addict but now successful restaurant owner and chef ex-boyfriend Nathan Hawthorne (Meyers) and the two begin to get close again. Looks like Michael will need to hold on to that British accent he is using for Bond. It's been a while since the last GOOD Cameron Crowe romantic flick. They always strike the right balance between romance and humor and drama and ALWAYS have tremendous soundtracks. While I am not exactly sold yet on Worthington and Huntington as quality actors, I am beyond stoked to see Meyers and Knightley on screen together again (especially as distant lovers who get back together) for the first time in 9 years since appearing in Bend It Like Beckham together. Count Me In. Filming is set to begin next Spring for a Fall 2011 release.

P.S. According to reports, Michael is laying low on the Bond set after the Famke Janssen drama in early October and is actually already preparing for his much buzzed about role as a female in Neil Blomkamp's The Boy Who Got Away by studying the Swedish language (apparently the film will be in Swedish with subtitles). This PHOTO was taken today of Meyers in Paris in a cafe reading a Rosetta Stone guide to learning Swedish. The film starts filming in February in Sweden and is set for release in December 2011. It also stars Daniel Day Lewis.

New Full Trailer for The Fighter

The film is scheduled to be released on December 10th.