The Morn­ing Call have revealed that Bethlehem’s film­ing shall be at a steel works, a highly mech­a­nized and per­fectly suited backdrop:

Try to imag­ine giant, extrater­res­trial robots dis­guised as tractor-trailers on Route 22 or cam­ou­flaged among the tow­er­ing Beth­le­hem Steel blast furnaces.

A film crew from ”Trans­form­ers 2″ will bring those shape-shifting robots to life in south Beth­le­hem next month for a movie scene in front of the iconic furnaces.

Of course, no one will see the robots because they’re computer-generated. But any­one will be able to see the action at the old Steel site as the film­mak­ers trans­form it into a fic­tional Chi­nese city pop­u­lated by peo­ple from the Lehigh Val­ley.

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The movie crew will film in Beth­le­hem dur­ing the first week of June and will use the blast fur­naces as the scene’s back­drop, Calla­han said.

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Accord­ing to an announce­ment from Heery Cast­ing of Philadel­phia, the film­mak­ers hope to cast local ”Asian men and women, boys and girls, ages 7 [to] 65″ as paid extras in the movie. In par­tic­u­lar, the crew hopes to recruit extras of Asian descent who have mil­i­tary backgrounds.

Thanks locoexw!