Movies-The making of TF3

Posted in | March 14th, 2011

 

Transformers 3 – Movie Chronicles

 

Michael Bay.com has posted an offi­cial (and now extended) set report from Chicago, show­ing off Bumblebee’s Camaro, the weaponized Nascars, a scene under the bridge, lots of fans, the Fer­rari and the Mercedes.

 

Michael Bay Dot Com in Chicago (Extended) from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 5, Chicago — Explosions and autobot heads

July 25th, 2010

 

 

 

The most inter­est­ing aspect of Day 5’s film­ing was the photo of an autobot’s head, a grey haired char­ac­ter sport­ing spec­ta­cles and stand­ing next to Bum­ble­bee. These cards are used to aid the actors with line of sight, etc. Who is this new auto­bot? What is his alt mode? The head of Sound­wave was also spot­ted (Pix­el­Rally got the shot), con­firm­ing his role in the movie.

The day also fea­tured a base jump from Trump Tower and scenes below, much of which has been cap­tured on film. Then of course there are explo­sions, wouldn’t be a Bay film with­out them. Cars flip­ping, Bum­ble­bee skid­ding around, para­chuters fly­ing in. The video playlist below has over 15 videos from the day’s shoot:

 
 


 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shia and Dempsey fight scene

July 30, 2010

A fan, That­NewTechGuy, man­aged to cap­ture some of the film­ing action in Chicago, show­ing Sam Witwicky going fisticuffs with Carly’s (Rosie Hunt­gin­ton) boss, played by Patrick Dempsey.

Just­Jared have also posted some shots of Patrick Dempsey look­ing very much like a tough guy:

 

 

 

Wacker Drive

The full pic­ture set is avail­able from The Chive

 

 

 

 

More explosions and action from Chicago’s south side

July 29, 2010

 

Trans­form­ers lined up on south side

Almost a full cast of vehi­cles here, includ­ing the Nascars, Bum­ble­bee, Skids, Mud­flaps and Jolt.

Auto­bot chase

The next video shows the Nascar vehi­cles hotly pur­sued by the Auto­bots from an angle right in the thick of the film­ing, by johnnyism13 who hap­pened to be in the right place at the right time:

 

This video, from the same loca­tion, shows peo­ple run­ning away scream­ing whilst a shiny blue car calmly dri­ves past.

 

Explo­sions closeup

This is another view of the explo­sions we’ve seen already, but from a ground view, much closer. Thanks to ReidCollins.

 

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New Transformer “Rollbar”, Megatron and filming at Wacker Drive July 29th, 2010

Trans­form­ers 3 pro­duc­tion has con­tin­ued work­ing in Chicago, mov­ing their sets to Wacker Drive. Scenes have included a seem­ingly heroic moment for Patrick Dempsey, as Shia and Rosie sit amongst the rubble.

On set, a new red 4×4 truck has also been spot­ted, glow­ing and undam­aged, it stood out promi­nently from the mis­cel­la­neous burnt out cars. This has now been con­firmed as Roll­bar — his name is spelled out on the vehi­cle and he sports the auto­bot logo. Roll­bar doesn’t have a big per­son­al­ity within the Trans­form­ers fran­chise (or much of any­thing beyond being many dif­fer­ent toys), with this char­ac­ter Bay is free to recre­ate as he pleases.

Add to all this, the card­board head of Mega­tron has been thrown into the mix.

 

Roll­bar

Transformers 3 - Movie Chronicles
Transformers 3 – Movie Chronicles
See more Transformers 3 images at Movie Chronicles

 

 

 

The folks over at TFW2005 inves­ti­gated the T B logo on the back and found that it stands for “Tommy Built”, the jeep wasn’t orig­i­nally built for the movie and a clip on YouTube showed it with a mounted machine gun on the rear, Para­mount pic­tures have sinced removed the video.

 

Trans­form­ers 3 pro­duc­tion has moved to Trump Tower again, this time shoot­ing at night and using “flame and smoke effects” on rooftops, accord­ing to Chicago­B­reak­ingNews. It was more than just smoke and flame effects, this was “Bay­hem” to its fullest, with ten or so rooftop explo­sions at mul­ti­ple build­ings. The action was filmed from a heli­copter (and pre­sum­ably from below as well) whilst police vehi­cles drove away from the action down below.

Trans­form­ers 3 has also been spot­ted on the south side, film­ing along­side the rail tracks, includ­ing Auto­bot chase scenes, scenes of pedes­tri­ans run­ning away scream­ing, and a video show­ing all the vehi­cles lined up, includ­ing what’s pre­sum­ably Skids and Mud­flaps new look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More action from Aug 2010′s Trans­form­ers 3 film­ing has sur­faced, this time show­ing a bus explod­ing and rolling towards the cam­eras on State St and Wacker Drive. The bus splits clean in two, as if being kicked in the mid­dle by a Decep­ti­con. (Thanks gopher1)

 

Transformers 3 - Movie Chronicles

Transformers 3 – Movie Chronicles

See more Transformers 3 images at Movie Chronicles

Skil­let Lick­ers has also posted images from the TF3 set, show­ing sol­diers (includ­ing Josh and Tyrese) bat­tling behind a yel­low cab. View the full set on Flickr.

 

 

 

 

 

“John Turturro’s char­ac­ter, who has been in the other two movies, Agent Sim­mons. I’m a fel­low agent of his that is sort of his assis­tant and weapons expert, com­puter hacker, cyber sleuth.”

This con­firms Tudyk will have a human role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 4, Chicago — Datsun and autobots July 25th, 2010

 

Film­ing con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day, and the ’72 Dat­sun sport­ing Bum­ble­bee colour­ing was spot­ted along­side Shia and Rosie in Chicago, prob­a­bly con­tin­u­ing from the scene in Mil­wau­kee. The auto­bots were also out in full col­ors and a truck sport­ing the word “NEST” has shown up, spark­ing rumors that it’s a mobile HQ unit.

 

 

 

 

 

Day 3, Chicago — Utter destruction July 25th, 2010

 

Trans­form­ers 3 pro­duc­tion returned to down­town Chicago and the Michi­gan Street Bridge. This time the destruc­tion sets and props went up a notch. Scenes included Sam and Carly run­ning to escape in Bum­ble­bee and more run­ning, this time across the bridge with some soldiers.

Videos

Seib­ertron
WGN TV

Image sets

All Spark
TFW2005
TForm­ers
SHH
Seib­ertron
TLive

 

 

 

 

    Filming at the Milwaukee Art Museum July 25th, 2010

     

    A short break in the Chicago film­ing saw the crews head to Mil­wau­kee, Wis­con­sin to film scenes at the Mil­wau­kee Art Museum. Spot­ted on set were Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Hunt­ing­ton, along with new­comer Patrick Dempsey in an Aston Mar­tin. There’s also a 1972 yel­low Dat­sun, which breaks down.

    Below is a set of videos from the shoot:

    And Matt Schilder (flickr) has posted some shots of the Dat­sun, Shia and Rosie from the art museum:

     

    And a fur­ther away shot of the Dat­sun bro­ken down via TFW2005:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

      Day 2 in Chicago — Stunticons and autobots-July 25th, 2010

       

       

      First up, some videos of Opti­mus Prime and the auto bots avoid­ing explo­sions and large piles of rub­ble at intersections:

      Seib­ertron have posted 20 or so videos and a huge set of pic­tures from the day’s action, includ­ing close-ups of the auto­bots and “stun­ti­cons” (Nascar vehicles).

      Image Gallery

      Stun­ti­cons and Auto­bots

      Stun­ti­cons in action

      Destruc­tion on Chicago’s streets

      Wacker drive

       

       

      Seib­ertron have posted 20 or so videos and a huge set of pic­tures from the day’s action, includ­ing close-ups of the auto­bots and “stun­ti­cons” (Nascar vehicles).

      Image Gallery
      Stun­ti­cons and Auto­bots
      Stun­ti­cons in action
      Destruc­tion on Chicago’s streets
      Wacker drive

       
       

      Day 1 in Chicago — Skydiving stunt July 25th, 2010

       

      A col­lec­tion of videos from the wing-suit sky­dive, with some excel­lent angles on the action show­ing five para­chuters land­ing in East Shore Lake Park.

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Uploaded on December 19, 2010

      Transformers: Dark of the Moon Publicity Still

      Details for Transformers: Dark of the Moon

       

      Third installment in the giant robots franchise.

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      Transformers: Dark of the Moon Publicity Still

       

      Photo Credit: Paramount

       

      Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: The Dark of the Moon.
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      Movie Details

       

      Transformers: Dark of the Moon

      • Release Date:
      • US (wide): July 1, 2011
      • Genre: Sci-Fi
      • Other Genres: Action, Adventure
      • Studio: Paramount Pictures
      • Language: English

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