New Live-Action Transformers Movie, Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks with Michael Bay

New Live-Action Transformers Movie, Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks with Michael Bay

Monday, December 18, 2006: An exclusive movie trailer has popped up on Yahoo. Things seem to really be taking off now, and over the past 12 months we have seen many of the rumors come to fruition, this is just one more example. The Transformers are coming to life, beautiful!

Saturday, July 01, 2006: It seems the rumor posted on Wednesday was 100% correct. Check out the teaser now!
Also, an image rumored to be a the Bumblebee set prop has been floating around, see the original source along with some readers' responses here. I've decided to reproduce it here with a significant amount of distortion added so as not to give too much away!

Is this Bumblebee?

Wednesday, June 28, 2006: (Possible trailer spoiler warning). Not sure if this has been verified, but seems legit. Our Savanna recounts the deleted thread at our forums. I'm keeping it at rumor status, but it's really a moot point since there's less than a week till the trialer hits theaters anyways!

Sunday, June 18, 2006: (Possible spoiler warning) A recent account from the Transformers movie set has it that a 'battle' between an AC-130H Gunship and its crew (the 16th Special Operations Squadron) was filmed late last month. The commander of the aircraft, Aircraft commander Capt. Shawn Sharitt, told reporter, Mladen Rudman, the gunship and other aircraft were sent in to save a village from 'a spider-like creature'. Speculation already has it that this 'creature' is Scorponok. Read the full account here.

Monday, June 5, 2006: Set images are beginning to trickle out over the net. Several of the airmen at (though not necessarily stationed at) Holloman Air Force Base will be extras in the film. The images below were taken from here. See also here for more set images and details.

Director Michael Bay on the set of Transformers

Saturday, June 3, 2006: A teaser trailer is scheduled to hit theaters on July 4, 2006. This is exactly one year prior to the film release date. A possibly movie poster has shown up (see left), with a possible slogan for the movie "Their war. Our world." Pretty ominous!

Monday, April 24, 2006: Well there has not been much to report on the movie front lately...until now! It seems the movie is now in position to begin filming. Director Michael Bay and Dreamworks Studio runner Steven Spielberg have been spotted running around the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico (NM).
According to a WSMR news release on the Las Cruces Sun-News Web site, "Transformers" will be filming on location on and around White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base in late May. This site is a notoriously risky location for filming as the range can't guarantee uninterrupted filming windows as testing of real missiles may transpire. Nevertheless, DreamWorks is going forward, "making a date to film at the missile range's dune field just north of Range Road 10 and a little west of Holloman". A fake Middle Eastern village is being built by the preproduction crews, according to the release.
In addition, IGN Filmforce has learned the following actors are in talks for these roles:

Actor	Role
Shia LaBeof	Sam (a.k.a. Spike)
Jon Voight	Keller, the U.S. Secretary of State
Michael Clarke Duncan	Louisiana-born Army Chief Warrant officer Figueroa and a close team member of young military commander Lennox
Josh Duhamel	Military Commander Lennox
Bernie Mac	used car salesman Bobby Bolivia
Rachael Taylor	super-hot and super-smart codebreaker Rachel
Megan Fox	LaBeof's love interest Mikaela
Tyrese Gibson	Offer sent
John Turturro	Offer sent
Travis Van Winkle	Offer sent
John Robinson	Offer sent

Friday, July 15, 2005: Not much new Movie news from the Hasbro panel at SDCC, only that there will be a toy line based on the new movie (big surprise...). They did show a film short with some pre-production concepts an illustrations as well as some words from Steven Spielberg. Oh, and movie Soundwave will be a helicopter (at least that's the plan as of today, but we all know how these things change!)

See the full original press release about the news Transformers The Movie

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