Movie Chronicles

Transformers 3, what we know so far. July 24th, 2010

I’ve started blog­ging this movie a lit­tle late in, sorry for that. I’ve been a tad busy get­ting mar­ried and so on. Where shall we begin? Prin­ci­ple pho­tog­ra­phy for the third Trans­form­ers movie started at the end of May, with a rumored bud­get of $200m. The Trans­form­ers 3 release date is cur­rently set to July 1st, 2011, likely to be in 3D — but that card­board cut-out con­verted 3D rather than an Avatar immer­sive 3D. A change from the pre­vi­ous two movies, Orci and Kurtz­man step out, and Ehren Kruger takes cen­tre stage as writer of the third part in the soon to be tril­ogy. As a tril­ogy, accord­ing to Bay, this will be the final part, “it really ends”.

Shoot­ing Locations

Shoot­ing in Wash­ing­ton DC, Chicago, Detroit and Moscow. Pos­si­bly also in Africa, China and Texas.

Plot

In inter­views, the film mak­ers have promised to include more char­ac­ter devel­op­ment and solid sto­ry­telling, parts of TF2 severely lacked in these depart­ments. Rather than all out robot car­nage, Michael Bay says this movie is shap­ing up to have a bit of mys­tery; rumors sug­gest that it’ll revolve around a Trans­form­ers link hid­den in the USA/USSR space race, involv­ing Sound­wave. Mean­while, Sam is grow­ing up and mov­ing on.

Cast­ing

The big story, Megan Fox is out, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is in — but not as Mikaela, her char­ac­ter is called Carly. New­com­ers also include Frances McDor­mand, John Malkovich and Alan Tudyk.

Shia LaBeouf — Sam Witwicky
Josh Duhamel — Cap­tain Lennox
Tyrese Gib­son — Mas­ter Sergeant Epps
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley — Carly
John Tur­turro — Agent Sim­mons
John Malkovich — Sam’s boss
Frances McDor­mand — National Intel­li­gence Direc­tor
Patrick Dempsey — Carly’s boss
Alan Tudyk

Trans­form­ers line up

Auto­bots
Opti­mus Prime
Bum­ble­bee –2011 Chevy Camaro
Ratchet — 2009 Hum­mer H3
Iron­hide — 2007 GMC Top­kick C4500
Skids — 2011 Chevy Sparks
Mud­flap — 2011 Chevy Sparks
Side­swipe — 2012 Chevy Corvette Centennial

Decep­ti­cons
Shock­wave
Mega­tron
Starscream — F-22 Rap­tor
Sound­wave — Satel­lite and Cybertron­ian jet

Unknown cars spot­ted on set include a Fer­rari 458 Italia and a blue 2011 Mer­cedes Benz E350, believed to be auto­bots. Three Nascar auto­mo­biles and a Chevy Tahoe vehi­cle have also been spot­ted, believed to be decepticons.

Chris Evans as Captain America — concept art June 15th, 2010

In March this year, Chris Evans was cast as Cap­tain America/Steve Rogers. We haven’t got our first images of him as Cap­tain Amer­ica just yet, but we do have some excel­lent con­cept and almost cer­tainly offi­cial art, orig­i­nally posted to AICN.

Iron Man 2 trailer, high definition December 17th, 2009

An early Christ­mas present for us! Apple has the exclu­sive Iron Man 2 trailer reveal, in full 1080p high def­i­n­i­tion.
Iron Man 2 trailer at Apple.

And of course, it’s also on YouTube, for those that pre­fer not to use Quick­time:

Screen­shots and analy­sis com­ing soon!

High Resolution Iron Man 2 poster featuring War Machine December 1st, 2009

We’ve got our first big Iron Man 2 tease as an early Christ­mas present. A high res­o­lu­tion Iron Man 2 poster fea­tur­ing War Machine with right shoul­der mounted gun. As teaser posters go, this one’s pretty awesome.

We’ve also got a host of new screen­shots fea­tur­ing Tony Stark, Whiplash and Scar­lett Johans­son as the Black Widow.

As always, click on the images for their larger versions.

International Prince of Persia trailer November 4th, 2009

A sec­ond offi­cial Prince of Per­sia movie trailer has been released, this time it’s the inter­na­tional ver­sion. It is slightly dif­fer­ent with the odd new glimpse, although it doesn’t show Ben Kingsley.

Official Prince of Persia movie trailer November 3rd, 2009

Thanks to all those that sent this one in!

We’ll have an analy­sis for you shortly.

Mark VI Iron Man suit in toy form October 18th, 2009

New toy pack­ag­ing and Iron Man 2 fig­ures have appeared online, the most excit­ing of these is a ‘Mark VI’ armor, seen below. Pic­tures come via Mar­velous News.

Extended behind the scenes Iron Man 2 video October 18th, 2009

French TV sta­tion Canal have posted an extended 7 minute behind the scenes look at Iron Man 2. The video starts off in French but the inter­view with direc­tor Jon Favreau is in Eng­lish; you’ll here him talk about Stark’s home made par­ti­cle accel­er­a­tor. There’s also an inter­view with Robert Downey Jr., talk­ing about the chal­lenges of film­ing a sequel. An insight­ful look at the Iron Man sequel and def­i­nitely worth the watch.

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