Transformers 4 - ongoing news thread

[Sinnertwin]

Any word of budget yet?

[Autocon]

China is creeping into everything.... Changing whole story lines just to appease the Chinese market pffft

Not excited for this film zzz

[griffin]

Paramount is going where the money is... they've pretty much tapped the western markets, and big-action movie budgets are just too huge now to be content with those countries. They need the billions of dollars potential of Asian countries that they haven't yet tapped into fully. And what better way to get the next big market interested than by making most of the movie featuring their country.

[Demonac]

Weren't the first 3 films written to appease GM & the US army?

[Megatron]

Thanks to the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, More Possible Transformers Vehicles Spotted in Texas (03/06/2013):

Below are two new images of potential Transformers 4 vehicles thanks to site reader Erik W. Last weekend, while in the Pflugerville and Manor area (in Central Texas), he and his son spotted the big semi truck hauling three black off road looking cars that are not identical but similar looking to each other. He was able to spot them turn at a yellow sign that said E7 with arrows and other markers. The "E7" signs have been used in the past to identify Transformers production's base camp for whatever location they happen to be at and sometimes shooting locations. The location beyond the suburbs of Austin so can't help but wonder if related to the TF4 farm set.

So what are the vehicles for? A few possibilties come to mind. Since black SUVs tend to be Hollywood short hand for government, these could be off road version, possibly part of Harold Attinger's (Kelsey Grammer) crew. When not goverment, black vehicles just means bad guys so Decepticon alt modes? Or they simply serve the practical purpose of being rigged for the camera crew to film action scenes. I guess NEST is another possibility but I don't think they have a part in this movie. However I have no info to back that idea up. As always time will tell.

Update: Two things: 1) corrected the location typos (no clue how managed to screw up both of them) and 2) from the comments it appears on the vehicles is nearly identical to one used in Revenge of the Fallen and the other has been ID as a Rally Fighter.

[tinyJazz]

Yes! Hound gets a movie-version. I'm hoping the robot designs are more refreshing this time around, but we'll have to see. And I'm not buying into this "riding dinobots and Galvatron" business until there's something more solid to support it. Although I think Galvatron on the big screen would be pretty awesome.

I thought it was supposed to be a film about robots, transforming ones at that

It's about making money.

I wish they could do a Lamborghini Aventador Transformer, that would be sexy.

welll

Straight from michaelbay.com via Planet Iacon a picture of a Lamborghini Aventador.

What does it mean?

[Defcon]

I don't mind a new film set in China, or have heaps of Chinese actors. The problem I had with the other films was they all seemed to be so focused on America, like other parts of the world were not important, go figure and have plenty of US Army focus as well. When really the whole movie should of been global, like planet Earth, and feature a coalition of Armed forces.

[SharkyMcShark]

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...nd-bee-177670/

Aventador.

Start the reactor, I love that car.

[drahsrebu]

That Aventador would be a great alt mode for breakdown/wildrider. Im sticking with my Stunticon theory

[griffin]

A random movie-related news item - a billboard in Texas where they are filming, has a subtle TF3 reference that probably only TFs fans will get... but people are thinking that with the high "illegal alien" population in Texas (from Mexico), it could be misinterpreted by non-fans as something to do with immigration.