fq9 and Flickr user djlak­itu have posted new images from the Long Beach Trans­form­ers set, this time show­ing more Chi­nese sym­bols, ori­en­tal police cars, dirty auto­mo­biles with fur­ni­ture atop the roof, a crunched up taxi, the pre­vi­ously men­tioned flatbeds (set report), assorted auto­bots (albeit under­cover) and a tanker with two wholes cut out of the front and rear.

EDIT: A much bet­ter video of the Auto­bots “rolling out” has been pro­vided thanks to R. over at TLAMB, this video shows Bum­ble­bee, Opti­mus, the sil­ver Corvette, Iron­hide, the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax all dri­ving in formation:

Here is our first video of the explo­sions down on the Queensway in Long Beach, sadly it was cap­tured on a phone cam­era and you need to tilt your head or rotate your screen to enjoy this one… . How­ever, it does get the money shot — show­ing the explo­sion right at the beginning.

Explo­sions were promised, and Ranger565 (via TLAMB) has come back with his report which you can find below. Now all we need are some pic­tures and video…

OK Well I work in the area and they have the whole area set up to be China, as you guys know. Now I did see Prime, Bum­ble­bee, the sil­ver corvette, 2 blue cars (small) and Iron­hide. All were parked on the back lot behind Catalina Landing!

The scene I wit­nessed was a traf­fic scene where they were dri­ving down Shore­line Drive and then 2 flatbed Trucks merge into traf­fic. THEN BOOOM!!! One of the two trucks blew in half.

NOTE: The Auto­bots were not in the blow up scene. That’s it the stunt guys got out the cars and the Heli­copter flew off. But man that truck blue the trailer hitch right off. Then I heard that it may not have gone accord­ing to plan. Both trucks were [sup­posed] to blow up.

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Flickr user mylordsin­uhe was on hand at the Queensway bridge in Long Beach last night to cap­ture a shot of Opti­mus Prime:

Whilst fq9 vis­ited the park­ing lot to grab images of Opti­mus cov­ered up, also note the vehi­cle in the lorry on the right, click the image for a larger version:

The area is cov­ered with E7 boards, the code­name for Revenge of the Fallen, whilst Chi­nese sign posts have been put up in prepa­ra­tion for the movie shoot:

Thanks again to Brux­hina

INF Daily have posted shots of Shia LaBoeuf all bruised and bat­tered again, this time partly clothed, although the t-shirt looks a lit­tle worse for wear this time. If you’d like to see Shia top­less but burnt and scarred, check out the first set.

Thanks very much to R. from TLAMB for send­ing this over.

Andy has informed us that there is a film­ing notice detail­ing the clo­sure of the Queensway Bridge for the film­ing of Revenge of The Fallen on 8/26 and 8/27 in down­town Long Beach, including:

“pre­ci­sion driving..with car stunts and EXPLOSIONS…”

There are also park­ing lots set up around Pacific and 4th streets down­town which could be the loca­tions for keep­ing the vehi­cles.

Thanks Andy!

Flickr user brux­hina also reports that Chi­nese signs have gone up around the area:

Day 6 (8/26): Sud­denly Long Beach has been trans­formed into lit­tle China, with street signs in Chi­nese. No wor­ries, it’s all Hollywood.

After rumors and rum­blings in the Hol­ly­wood camp, WB Pres­i­dent Jeff Robi­nov has con­firmed with The Wall Street Jour­nal that Super­man will be under­go­ing a form of reboot to make it more brood­ing and dark:

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie star­ring mul­ti­ple super­heroes — known as “Bat­man vs. Super­man” — after the $215 mil­lion “Super­man Returns,” which had dis­ap­point­ing box-office returns, didn’t please exec­u­tives. “‘Super­man’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robi­nov. “It didn’t posi­tion the char­ac­ter the way he needed to be posi­tioned.” “Had ‘Super­man’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christ­mas of this year or 2009,” he adds. “But now the plan is just to rein­tro­duce Super­man with­out regard to a Bat­man and Super­man movie at all.”

[…]

“Super­man [Returns] didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” said Robi­nov. “It didn’t posi­tion the char­ac­ter the way he needed to be posi­tioned. Had Super­man worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christ­mas of this year or 2009. But now the plan is just to rein­tro­duce Super­man with­out regard to a Bat­man and Super­man movie at all.”

[…]

Like the recent Bat­man sequel — which has become the highest-grossing film of the year thus far — Mr. Robi­nov wants his next pack of super­hero movies to be bathed in the same brood­ing tone as “The Dark Knight.” Cre­atively, he sees explor­ing the evil side to char­ac­ters as the key to unlock­ing some of Warner Bros.’ DC prop­er­ties. “We’re going to try to go dark to the extent that the char­ac­ters allow it,” he says. That goes for the company’s Super­man fran­chise as well.

Roberto Orci took some time out to answer fan’s ques­tions over at TFW2005, with com­ments on Shia LaBoeuf’s hand injury as well as the inspi­ra­tion behind TF2, ani­mal modes and the mar­ket­ing push which is set to begin in Novem­ber (per­haps a trailer released with Quan­tum of Solace?)

The Injury

“Luck­ily noth­ing has to be reshot. Yes, we were on set last week to write it into the movie, not because it’s absolutely nec­es­sary, but more because we want to make sure Shia’s hand is pro­tected for the remain­der of the shoot…”

Inspi­ra­tions

“Back to the Future, Juras­sic Park, Close Encoun­ters and Ter­mi­na­tor 2.” “We were emu­lat­ing the style of movie from the old Amblin days, like Back to the Future and Grem­lins, which if you watch today are still very funny. Also, the car­toon itself was quite funny. Also, com­edy makes things more acces­si­ble to a larger audience.”

Ani­mal Modes

Will the Sequel have any Trans­form­ers with Ani­mal Modes like Scor­ponok? “All signs point to ‘probably.’”

Via FSR. You can also find a con­cise break­down of the ques­tions and their responses at /Film.