After months of wondering who will join Jack Reynor as the other half of the new Shia and Megan in Michael Bay’s “Transformers 4″ (after a previous report turned out to be at least partially incorrect), Bay’s official Twitter rather nonchalantly answered my question that it is indeed the formerly rumored Nicola Peltz.

Reynor and Peltz will play a high school-aged couple. He is a race car driver and she is the daughter of Mark Wahlberg, who will be the lead in at least this first film of the new chapter of “Transformers” before, presumably, passing it on to the youngsters. Bay is essentially rebooting his own franchise though the film is categorized as a sequel, with Optimus Prime and friends meeting a new group of humans, a few years after befriending Shia LaBeouf and Co, to go into intergalactic battle with. Filming is slated to begin in April and the movie already has a release date of June 29, 2014.

Peltz played Katara in M. Night Shayamalan’s ill-fated 2010 adaptation of “The Last Airbender” and is a regular on new “Psycho” prequel TV series “Bates Motel”, which just debuted on AMC. She also recently completed work on indie drama “Affluenza.”