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

[thewhyteman]

Jeez, cable to the head. Hopefully most of the kinetic energy had been absorbed from her car before it reached her head. Someone got fired for sure.

 

[Alonsovich]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7645672

wow.

I'm very sorry to see this and don't want to say something bad, but usually cable as a whip is very bad, and if it's to the skull... sorry to say this, but this one is either dead or marked for life...

 

[Dr Lee]

UK Paper article

 

[<(o_o)>]

Man this sucks, wonder if they will cut this action sequence from the movie altogether whether the stunt woman makes it or not? This is not the first stunt person to be injured/or killed on the job & probably won't be the last but no matter how safe a movie set is, sometimes terrible accidents happen whether they can be avoided or not. Let's not forget the incident that happened on the Twilight Zone: The Movie set but that incident involved 3 of the films actors instead of stuntmen but either way it was still very tragic.

 

[terry78]

I'm kinda glad I wasn't out there taking pics now.

 

[Avangarde]

Is Megs getting his tank mode in this one?

It's unknown, I was just using it as an example as the stand-in truck was plowing through other cars and it's the only vehicle I can think of that is CGI only, of course there could be a new character thats vehicle mode is all CGI, maybe Shockwave?

 

[Ipodman]

What does Shockwave transform into in the cartoon anyway?

 

[Marvin]

it's a shame too cause a stunt woman almost dying isn't going to detour keyboard cowboys from trashing the film she's blead for.

 

[Mr. Earle]

it's a shame too cause a stunt woman almost dying isn't going to detour keyboard cowboys from trashing the film she's blead for.

If the film is bad, its bad. It has nothing to do with her getting hurt.

 

[dark_b]

didnt someone die when they filmed batman?

people die everywhere. its bad that they do. but they do.

 

[Marvin]

no one's saying it deserves and oscar (for best picture) just because a production member is injured.
however to say the film is just a money grab when many hundreds of people work their butts off is just tragic.

 

[chaseter]

Uh they get paid for working and they get paid damn good too. Vampire Sucks was a money grab...but I am sure the set painters and boom mic holders worked their butts off.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Let's not forget the incident that happened on the Twilight Zone: The Movie set but that incident involved 3 of the films actors instead of stuntmen but either way it was still very tragic.

That was even more controversial as it was also two underage children working after hours.

 

[Dr Lee]

i keep seeing the Twilight Zone mentioned... but i've never heard what happened?

 

[Marvin]

Uh they get paid for working and they get paid damn good too. Vampire Sucks was a money grab...but I am sure the set painters and boom mic holders worked their butts off.

kinda makes you wonder why that ugly word was invented at all moreover, why it continues to be used till this very day.

if a film looks like there was alot of work put into it, such as cg artists, 4 plus months of shooting, people risking their lives for pay as well as um our entertainment than it shouldn't matter if the script was written by jonathan nolan or not...the word is ugly and misused.

 

[DarkKnight88]

i keep seeing the Twilight Zone mentioned... but i've never heard what happened?

You can read about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie#Helicopter_accident

 

[Dr Lee]

Thanks..... How horrible

 

[chaseter]

kinda makes you wonder why that ugly word was invented at all moreover, why it continues to be used till this very day.

if a film looks like there was alot of work put into it, such as cg artists, 4 plus months of shooting, people risking their lives for pay as well as um our entertainment than it shouldn't matter if the script was written by jonathan nolan or not...the word is ugly and misused.

I think Bay really enjoys these films so I wouldn't use money grab to term TF3 and I always see smiling faces on the set so the actors are enjoying it too.

But lets be honest, all movies are out to make a profit. Some movies just get more money to do so that others. Some have more thought put into them than others. Some take longer to make than others. Those things can affect quality. When I look at TF2, they rushed the script due to the writer's strike to meet a release date in order for the studio to have a good profit that year. When I look at X3, they had production troubles and still forced the film to have a release date in order to have a positive yearly profit margin. That is getting greedy. The people working on the movie may have worked their butts off but that isn't an excuse for poor quality. It isn't their fault but it shouldn't be a pass to not criticize a movie.

 

[Anita18]

didnt someone die when they filmed batman?

people die everywhere. its bad that they do. but they do.

It wasn't on set, and it was one of the crew members in a tragic accident.

There's NO excuses for an extra being involved in the middle of an action scene with this kind of danger. Especially not after the Twilight Zone tragedy. Deadline Hollywood Daily already says that a similar tow rig setup failed the day before on set.

And sure people do die, but when it's completely preventable because someone was lax in doing safety checks, that someone is in seriously deep doodoo. I smell lawsuits over this.

 

[Bunker]

Bayhem takes no prisoners.

 

[Ipodman]

People get injured more than often on Bay's films... didnt Megan Fox get her fingernails blown off and Shia Lebouf dislocate his shoulder. Nasty

 

[DarkKnight88]

There's NO excuses for an extra being involved in the middle of an action scene with this kind of danger. Especially not after the Twilight Zone tragedy. Deadline Hollywood Daily already says that a similar tow rig setup failed the day before on set.

And sure people do die, but when it's completely preventable because someone was lax in doing safety checks, that someone is in seriously deep doodoo. I smell lawsuits over this.

Agreed. They're only movies. Movies are not worth dying for.

 

[Dr Lee]

Nelson quoted this on SFTE...('Me' being a 'reporter')

Paramount just weighed in with me to say that the injured extra was not involved in the stunt, that her car was not involved in the stunt, that a "freak accident caused her injury", that she and her car were more than 500 feet from the stunt, that she was struck by a flying metal object whose welding had come apart and not by a steel towing cable, that the stunt from Tuesday had to be repeated Wednesday because of a "timing issue" and not because it had failed, and that "nobody has done movies more safely than Michael Bay". The studio, however, could not explain why its version of events was so at odds with the local police and media reports. "We feel horrible that anyone was injured and will take all appropriate action," a Paramount exec told me.

and a short while later a poster put this up...

can't say too much because I signed a NDA on set but I was a extra with my car during filming on Tuesday the day before the accident. I was a part of the exact same stunt that was re-shot on Wednesday due to timing issues causing the shot to fail the day before. They spent hours preparing for it and I had a front row seat and can tell you while it seemed very dangerous, Bay himself was checking with certain drivers including myself to see if we felt comfortable being close to the action. They seemed to take great care to make sure we all were are safe as possible before filming began. It is a terrible accident and I pray for her and her family but I do not think this was in any way negligence on the crews part.

 

[Mr. Earle]

Bay himself went around and asked every extra if he/she felt OK shooting in the middle of the action? Yeah right.....

Why doesnt he just tell us how much money they paid him to go out of his way and post that?

 

[Marvin]

Bay himself went around and asked every extra if he/she felt OK shooting in the middle of the action? Yeah right.....

Why doesnt he just tell us how much money they paid him to go out of his way and post that?

I get that you don't like the films but honestly..
this is kinda (dumb) unnescessary.