According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox was floored by the storyboards that Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman showed her during one of their meetings. One thing led to another, and now Fox is April O'Neil 2.0 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot.
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From THR:
Sources say Fox and Bay reconciled over a series of recent meetings and that one tete-a-tete that won her over was with director Jonathan Liebesman, who wowed her the storyboards, according to insiders. (Bay is not directing the movie but producing it via his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.)