Dark of the Moon The Official Transformers 3 News And Speculation Thread

[terry78]

Just saw The Beef driving Bumblebee around the corner on Wacker and then get out. BB is straight shinin' with his tinted windows and black rims.

 

[Dr Lee]

Any sign of a red Jeep thing?

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

Hello all! Like typeorocks, I haven't been on these forums posting pics and stories since the glorious summer of "The Dark Knight" filming here in Chicago. And unfortunately, I was out of town for most of the crazy Transformers 3 stuff the last few weeks.

But I'm here now and I guess I'll post what I got in this thread since this is where most of the chatter is.

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

Here are some shots I got last night and today...

Last night there were 2 helicopters flying around at one point. All of the attention was on the Jewelers Building (far right; behind Wrigley Building) where cast, crew, lights and cameras were filming:

Close up of camera crane on edge of building:

As I said before, there appeared to be repeated shots of figures heading from right to left with a white shirted guy (Bay) appearing once and awhile between takes. I've noticed other set pics showing Shia and Dempsey wearing black while Rosie is in a white dress. My guess as to who's who is labelled below:

Today I headed over to the river and saw they were filming some rubble shots in an alley along upper wacker:

Here's that bluescreen thingy people have been speculating about. It appears to be a big robot foot that'll be CGed later:

Went around corner where film trucks and equipment are based. Here's a close up of one of the trucks with a certain logo taped on the door:

As I was walking around the area I noticed up at the Jewelers Building that there was some activity on one of the corner towers/spires. It appeared to be flickering lights flashing inside one of the domed towers Maybe a second unit was filming what will eventually be blaster fire or explosion which causes this section of the building to crumble to the ground? Who knows. I tried to get a shot but never got the flashing. Here's the pic anyway:

Later, traffic (boats, too) were stopped and everyone was forced away from the sidewalks and nearby bridges along the river so that the helicopter could fly in for some closeup shots of the Trump Tower. It got pretty close to that landing up there and even did some 360 shots (maybe to simulate the helicopter out of control after getting hit?):

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

They pulled the bluescreen foot out later for more shooting. It looked like there may have been a second bluescreened "foot" or something further in to the rubble:

Here's Mr. Cool himself, Michael Bay. Apparently he's lost his top buttons on his shirt:

And I haven't looked too much online at all of the footage and snapshots but this is the first time I've seen Megatron's head on a stick. I guess he makes an appearance in this scene. Spectators who noticed it were giggling geekily:

That's what I got so far (headed back home for lunch). I'm pissed that I missed Shia driving Bumblebee. Maybe I'll head out later tonight to see if there's more filming.

 

[chaseter]

Awesome stuff...thanks!

 

[Ipodman]

Battle in the city is always good... in the desert you couldnt really tell how big the robots were

 

[xwolverine2]

here's vid of the master (micheal bay) at work... shaking his camera off...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqGHJSZ3rk&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[SpiderByte]

Say...Megatron's head looks like it did in the first film, rather than the second.

See?

 

[SpiderByte]

In this pic, I noticed...see the guy with the hat? Look at the chair that's right behind him.

It has Revenge of the Fallen on it. Why would they have an old ROTF chair amongst a bunch of new TF3 chairs?

 

[Ipodman]

Say...Megatron's head looks like it did in the first film, rather than the second.



See?

Maybe they are just using the head-stick from the first movie.

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

Ok, I went back out and discovered from some P.A. that there was going to be a helicopter filming some building top explosions at 8:00-ish. There was a camera crane perched on the first landing of the Trump Tower, too. He also said there'd be a car chase happening on the other side of the river on Wacker but that gawkers weren't allowed near that area. I decided to try videotaping it with my Flip camera.

I was standing on the north side of the Michigan Ave. bridge, across from the Wrigley Bldg when the Pursuit Car (camera car) pulled up right in front of me. Just then an explosion down river occurred (both on buildings and on boats in the river) followed by other building tops lighting up (like the Equitable Bldg & Wrigley Bldg). I tried to film what I could but it was happening randomly around and above me so please excuse my back-n-forth whipping action.

As the booms ended I saw that the pursuit car had taken off towards where police and civilian cars were flying by on the south side of the river (didn't see any Autobots but who knows if they had flown by in the beginning of the explosion). It was then that I noticed the flashing atop the Jewelers Bldgs 4-domed towers. This explains the flashing I'd seen earlier in the day; testing them, I guess. The video ends with a glimpse of the helicopter overhead, the Pursuit Car driving back while the flashing continues on the Jeweler Bldg.

The lady with her kid near me wouldn't shut up so try to ignore her.
Other than that, pretty cool evening! Enjoy...

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a...=view&current=0727T3ChicagoBldgExplosions.mp4

 

[rashad]

56 HQ Set Pics

 

[Ipodman]

Wow... looks cool...
Has Patrick Dempsy done anything like this before?

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

BTW, a nice P.A. hooked me up with a "Transformers 3" sticker. It's intended for kids only, according to one chick who wouldn't give me one when I asked for it. So, I just asked someone else and he gave it to me no problem:

Take that, all powerful P.A. chick!

 

[Ipodman]

Wow! Thats so cool

Nice title for the third movie too... Transformers 3: Chicago 2010

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

Technically, it's "Autobot Logo 3: Transformers 3: Chicago 2010"

t:

 

[Chris B]

Say...Megatron's head looks like it did in the first film, rather than the second.

See?

The Soundwave head that on that pole in those one pics was different from what was seen in ROTF as well.

 

[Ipodman]

So where you gonna stick it?

 

[terry78]

Technically, it's "Autobot Logo 3: Transformers 3: Chicago 2010"

t:

You saw the shirts the P.A's wore, some girl thought the subtitle of the new was gonna be Public Assistance.

 

[ChicageauxTiger]

Wow! That's a crapload of dumb!

 

[PyroChamber]

I think they're doing, or did, some shooting at the Van Buren Metra station. One my way to work, when the train pulled into the station, there were a bunch of damaged cars right across from the tracks with a big crane there.

Looks like they're shooting particularly everywhere in the Loop.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

So cool.

If this is actually the design of Shockwave's head then colour me very happy.

 

[BlackLantern]

Wow... looks cool...
Has Patrick Dempsy done anything like this before?

I don't think so....he did a kind of pseudo action film called "Run" some time ago but I don't think he's done anything BIG budget like this

I like Dempsey, I was surprised to see him in Scream 3 years ago and ive always wanted him to do well

 

[matrix_ghost]

56 HQ Set Pics [/SIZE]

That looks like a regular camera
Wasn't this movie supposed to be shot with 3d cameras ?
Or are they just going to convert the live action footage with stereoscopic 3d renders ?