There have been rumors about who was at Bethlehem Steel to shoot for the film. Was Shia or Fox there, who else was there, what did the cars do, which where Transformers, which where not. Now this is just for Wednesday but not a reach to infer this went for the other days to.
Bethlehem Steel's Role
Based on the scene descriptions, the role of the factory is a Shanghai, China steel factory. The scenes describe action and vehicle chases occuring along a "Shanghai Steel Yard" and "Shanghai Side Street". The scene is the Autobots, SAS and Lennox's team chasing after Decepticon, R8 (rate? hate? human built prototype TF?).
Bethlehem Steel Human Cast
The cast at Bethlehem Steel was Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Matthew Marsden and Andrew Howard. Josh and Tyrese was already confirmed (pics
here and
here). The news of Marsden's
casting as SAS Graham was just out this week, didn't know he had already started shooting.
A new addition is
Ramon Rodriguez, (The Wire) who appears to be the roommate of Shia LaBeouf considering his listing as #5 on the call sheet.
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox did not film at the site. The call sheet has multiple gaps in the cast numbering which simply suggests that are more principle cast members, its just they didn't work on the scenes on the sheet. It appears the first 12 numbers in the count represents the "core" cast for the movie. One is Shia LaBeouf, 2 is Megan Fox, 3 is Josh Duhamel, 8 is Tyrese Gibson, and 12 is Mathhew Marsden. Of note is the gap for 4 (John Turturro), 6 and 7 (one of them is Jon Voight) and 9 - 11. Could some of those be the rumored casting of
Nina Dobrev or
Aaron Hill?
Vehiciles at Site
Getting to the Transformers. As far as vehciles used the
three wheeled motorcycles, an
Ice Cream Truck, Ironhide, Audi,
3 NEST Hummers, 2 Trikes, 10 Shanghai dressed police vehicles and NEST semi. Also a Chinese Police helicoptor and 2 Blackhawks all equiped with spotlights.
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Production moves to the Smithsonian. The schedule is June 5 to Sunday June 6. The cast will include Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro and Ramon Rodriguez. Based on the scenes it appears they are hunting for something Decepticon related at the muesum after hours involving the SR-71 Blackhawk that is there.
There is also a mention of "Splinter". I am not sure if that is a TF or an Autobot artifact for the film.
Transformers
Known Transformers at the sites was Ironhide and Bumblebee (at the Smithsonian). Additional NEW Transformers from what I can tell is Arcee (the motorcycles), The Twins (the Ice Cream Truck), Stinger (a Porsche I think), R8 (maybe
rumored Acura or Audi), Wheelbot, Jetfire (the Blackhawk) and a "Constructicon Earth Mover".