Can't wait to see Optimus Prime on the big screen again!
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Can't wait to see Optimus Prime on the big screen again!
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I'm tipping he won't look much like that ^. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by MrsOptimusPrime
More of the behind-the-scenes clips by ET coming this week.
The following stories may have already been posted, and I do apologise if the same links have been provided already, but I couldn't find any from the original news source, so I've posted them here for anyone who may be interested. I also like to copy and paste the relevant text from the articles here, just in case they get removed or deleted from the source site in future, that way there is some kind of a record here as to what was reported.
NOTE: As always, there may be spoilers, so read at your own risk.
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Here is the link to the exclusive Empire article, New Transformers: Age Of Extinction Images (28/11/2013):
The new issue of Empire is out today, and we have gone big rather than home with our cover movie, Transformers: Age Of Extinction. Yes, Michael Bay's back, but this time he's accompanied by Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles and Nicola Peltz. Oh, and some gigantic robots. Check out our exclusive stills and from behind-the-scenes images below.
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This fourth film in the franchise is something of a fresh start, and sees an Earth scarred by the events of the last three films but moving on after the disappearance of all giant robots (although we're guessing that everyone gives their car a suspicious look in the morning, lest it suddenly turn into a giant mechanoid). In particular, Shia LaBeouf and family have moved on and we have some new leads.
When Mark Wahlberg's inventor, Cade Yeager, discovers a buried Transformer, the stage is set for the return of the giant beasties. There will also be some business with Cade's daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz); her secret racing driver boyfriend Shane; Stanley Tucci's Joshua; his geologist assistant Darcy (Sophia Myles); "the CEO of the Chinese Transformers", played by Li Bingbing; and Kelsey Grammer's Harold Attinger, the film's non-robot big bad.
"I'm feeling really good about this one. I love my cast," Bay told us. "There's a huge scale to this, but also huge soul."
Mark Wahlberg also seemed to be enjoying the experience when we visited the set. "Ted was a good tool to prepare me for this," he said. "Having to identify with things that aren't there. The bear prepped me for that. And as embarrassing as doing things like the fight sequence with him were - just throwing myself around a room for 12 hours while the crew just sat eating sandwiches and watching - it taught me how to do this shit."
It also looks like this will not be the last instalment of the series, with Bay open to continuing the franchise, it seems. "Well, it's a director's world... It's a franchise world at the moment. You know, Peter Jackson is still in Middle-earth..."
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'No goofiness' in Transformers 4, says Michael Bay (Yahoo! Movies UK, 29/11/2013):
Director speaks to Yahoo from the set of new robot movie.
We’ve seen a rejigged Optimus Prime and the promise of some Dinobot action, and Michael Bay tells Yahoo that 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' will also be an altogether “more cinematic” movie than the ones that have come before.
“I wanted the first Transformers to be very suburban and less cool,” Bay told us from the Detroit set of this fourth chapter. “This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won’t be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one].”
But despite Optimus’s updated design, Bay is quick to point out that this really is the fourth in an ongoing series – “reboot” is a dirty word here. “It feels like a new chapter, this movie,” he says. “But it’s not a reboot. This movie lives in the history of the 'Transformers' movies, and this one starts three years after the last. It feels fresh.”
Yahoo is navigating a maze of debris in a mocked-up version of Hong Kong as Bay rushes around the set, directing shots and acting as our tour guide. We’re pieces to be moved on the director’s chessboard - as with the rest of the crew, we go exactly where he tells us and he makes sure we have more than we could need.
Few directors have this level of control, and you get the sense that nothing happens on a Michael Bay set without him knowing about it.
We start by his personal monitor, where a small metal model of Bumblebee’s head sits standing guard. Immediately, Bay cues up five or six explosive shots taken earlier from the scene being shot on this set - the film’s last stand battle.
“I do big setups,” he says, with some understatement. “I like to do ‘runners’, where [the cameras are] with the characters in the war. We’re in the thick of it with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci, and we’ve got all these things going off.”
The human cast totally replaces the first trilogy’s top-liners, and Bay leads us to a Chinese noodle shop, where a giant monitor has been erected, to show us 15 minutes of character and action culled from the first month of shooting.
Wahlberg plays a wacky inventor – think Doc Brown, but with firmer abs – and overprotective father to Nicola Peltz’s Tessa. We watch as he discovers a Transformer and gets drawn into a conflict that has taken its toll on Earth – a sign saying 'Remember Chicago' hints at the destruction at the end of the last film. And then we see Wahlberg get distracted by the arrival of his daughter’s race driver boyfriend, played by Jack Reynor.
“The human element really attracted me,” Wahlberg tells us. He signed on without reading the script, off the back of his conversations with Bay.
“I had a great time working with him on 'Pain & Gain', and he asked me to come back, so I said, ‘Absolutely.’ The idea of playing a dad to a teenage girl – those are issues I’ll be having to deal with sooner rather than later, whether I like it or not.”
As for the action: what’s most remarkable about what we see is that we can see anything at all. Bay’s special effects guru, John Frazier, has worked on movies like 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Spider-Man', and he says the Transformers films, despite being full of CG, are at least 50% practical.
During the Bayhem in the sizzle, made of pre-CG shots, it seems as though the only element missing is the Transformer itself – cars flip, buildings crumble and the city explodes, all for real.
So is it essential to Bay that as much is practical as possible? “Yeah baby,” he says. “It’s kind of a dying art in Hollywood – nobody does anything for real. John’s one of the grand masters of physical effects.
"He can’t hear right because he’s done so many explosions. We still hold the Guinness World Record for Pearl Harbor: John rigged 350 bombs in seven seconds. Nowadays I think you would fake a lot of it.”
A round of applause rings out as the sizzle ends, and we turn to find the cast admiring Bay’s handiwork. Peltz and Reynor say they’ve never seen sets of this scale, and both went through a rigorous audition process to get their parts.
After watching Reynor drive Wahlberg and Peltz in a beaten-up Toyota backwards through streets littered with flaming rubble, we ask about their preparations for the film. “Jack and I did boot camp, which involved boxing and sprinting,” says Peltz, “We had to get in shape.”
Reynor went through two months of precision driving training to feel comfortable behind the wheel and to “learn how to throw the car around”. After auditioning for the part, he remembers receiving an email from Bay. “It said, ‘It’s Bay. Call me.’ So I did.”
Bay appears behind him to pick up the story. “I said to him, ‘I just saw you in Delivery Man. You were great. So anyway, on this movie… it’s not going to work out.’ And he said, ‘Oh. OK, OK.’”
“And then he just goes, ‘Nah, I’m just f—king with you,’” laughs Reynor. “I fell to the ground right away.”
It’s not as though the cars had an easier ride. “When car makers heard we were making this fourth one, they’d literally drive cars to my office,” Bay laughs as he leads us to meet this movie’s cast of vehicles.
After coming bumper-to-bumper with the full-size versions of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime (a Chevy Camaro and a Western Star 4900 truck respectively) we say hello to pair of new beauties debuting in 'Age of Extinction': a blue-and-black Bugatti Veyron and a red-and-black Pagani Huayra. “I’ve driven the Veyron – it’s pretty cool,” says Bay. “They all want to be Autobots, too – no one wants to be a Decepticon.”
What brought Bay back for a fourth Transformers movie, after vowing he wouldn’t return? “It was the Transformers ride,” at Universal Studios, he says. “It was seeing this two-and-a-half hour line, with all these kids lined up.”
That experience must come close to the rollercoaster of a Michael Bay set. Before the end of the day, we’re in yet another part of this decimated Hong Kong (which covers more than an entire Detroit city block) whilst Bay shows off another toy: an extensive pre-visualisation sequence of a key part of the film.
“We started on this movie in August [2012], and while in the writing process I’m conceiving the action. We come up with shots like this and start figuring out the rigs to make it happen. It’s a lot of fun.”
It certainly looks that way.
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Michael Bay has posted all the latest images for Transformers 4: Age of Extinction (amongst others) on his Flickr account, here.
News out claims that TF4 will be the first movie to be filmed entirely in IMAX Digital 3D.
Which means that if you want the full intended visual effect, try to catch a screening of the movie on IMAX in 3D. (if you have an IMAX theatre near you)
So instead of "retrofitting" the film into 3D or IMAX (that films have done in the past, and sometimes not very well), Bay is filming it for IMAX and 3D, and would be "reverting" it for screening in regular theatres' size and screen dimensions (and maybe even 2D if he feels like it).
Michael Bay made a post last week on his web site, which is now Not Found, Error 404, but here's what had been posted:
I Do Not Apologize For Any Transformers Movies (michaelbay.com, 5/12/2013)Now saved here for posterity. :D
It is a drag talking to reporters on sets. Why? Because often times they take your words and skew things to their liking? Then the crazy, lazy game of reporting on what other writers story’s reported me saying and then suddenly it becomes skewed Internet truth. So I waste my time to restate exactly what I did say, again.
No I did not ‘apologize’ for any Transformers movies. I did not say I shot the last three movies “less cool” then the new fourth installment. I was talking specifically about camera style and tone, of the first movie compared to how I shot the new installment with a very big scale, cinematic style. I was very specific in saying the first Transformers was shot in a ‘generic suburbia’ area, not trying to be cool with any cinematic flashes. I wanted it to feel like this could happen in any backyard in the United States.
So that brings me to letting Transformers fans know that we have completed our five and half month shoot. We got back from a month long shoot in China. My crew and I had a fantastic time shooting in Hong Kong and Mainland China. It was an amazing experience, and I love the country. My cast was absolutely fantastic, and a very fun group to work with. We are working hard cutting the movie right now. I think the first piece comes out for the Super Bowl and a teaser right after that.
And yes, I’m very excited about this new movie.
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Transformers 4: Age of Extinction - Bay, Di Bonaventura, and Cast Members Reveal Movie Details SPOILERS AHEAD (Tformers.com, 10/12/2013):
Just in from asian video site M1905* we have lots of spoilers from video interviews with director Michael Bay, Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, and with cast members Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor and Li Bingbing. Watch the videos below to see the players in the forth Transformers movie give us the low down on details from the movie. We have also posted the main quotes from the vidoes below. NOTE: SPOILERS AHEAD, proceed at your own risk.
- There is a robot who speaks Mandarin all the time. He's Cybertronian in origin.
- Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) is very protective of Tessa Yeager (Nicola Peltz) because of the loss of his Wife.
- Shane (Jack Reynor) is an Irish Race Car Driver and is Tessa’s Boyfriend despite the "No Dating" rule by Cade.
- Shane saves both Cade and Tessa's lives very early in the movie and gains the trust of the Yeagers.
- Cade Yeager and Optimus Prime become best friends. They both live with their own code of ethics.
- Cade must make a choice between his life and his daughter's where Optimus must make a choice between doing the right thing what must be done and the safety of his own life.
- Li Binbing's character is an owner of a very special "Factory" in China.
- Third act of the movie takes place entirely in Hong Kong.
- A conference is attacked and the Officials call for help from a special group of individuals.
*t4.m1905.com
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Edit: Further confirmation of the TF4 Super Bowl XLVIII teaser trailer, (Deadline exclusive, 11/12/2013):
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Last year, Paramount snuck trailers for Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z. This year, It bought one :30 spot and will use it to debut the first footage from its highly anticipated Megatron sequel Transformers: Age of Extinction. Thanks to director Michael Bay for spilling those beans.
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TFW still has the link and quote in case anyone doubts you.
Also, a close image of the Cybertronian Sword that looks to be a prop in TF4.
Mark Wahlberg in an interview, talking a little about his character's back story.
Apparently he injured his neck a bit while filming in Hong Kong.
AoE merchandise sneak peek
http://moviepilot.com/articles/12083...on-merchandise
I forgot how much garbage gets released with these movies.