Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon

Michael Bay has been promising Transformers fans that his third entry in the franchise, entitled Transformers: Dark of the Moon, is going to be the best installment yet – one which will do away with the mistakes of the previous films to offer a more refined and epicTransformers movie experience.

Empire magazine is also keeping watch on how Transformers 3 is shaping up, and they’ve put the film on the cover of their latest issue, complete with a feature article full of new pictures and details about the film. The pics have already leaked online as scanned images, but we won’t be posting those – grab the latest issue of Empire or wait until we post official versions of the pics if you want to see them in full glory.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon – the 3rd and the last film in Transformers film series, is scheduled for release on July 1, 2011 in Real D 3D and 2D. The film is directed by Michael Bay. Steven Spielberg is the film's executive producer.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (also known as Transformers 3) is a science fiction/action film slated for theatrical release in the U.S. on July 1, 2011. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third installment in the Transformers cinematic franchise, following its predecessors Transformers(2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).¹ Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) once again reprises his role as director, as he previously directed the first two installments of the franchise.² Transformers: Dark of the Moon was filmed in Illinois, Michigan, Florida, Indiana, Texas, California, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..³

Transformers: Dark of the Moon stars Shia LaBeouf (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Eagle Eye) and Josh Duhamel (Life as We Know It, The Romantics).⁴ ⁵ Megan Fox has been replaced in the franchise by Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.⁶ Newcomers to the franchise include actors John Malkovich (Red) and Patrick Dempsey (television’s Grey’s Anatomy).⁷ ⁸

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Cast and Characters

Shia LaBeouf: Sam Witwicky

Josh Duhamel: Major William Lennox

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: Carly

John Malkovich: Sam's Boss

Hugo Weaving: Megatron (voice)

Patrick Dempsey: Dylan

Ken Jeong

John Turturro: Simmons

Frances McDormand: Marissa Faireborn

Alan Tudyk: Dutch

Tyrese Gibson: Robert Epps

Frank Welker: Soundwave (voice)

Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime (voice)

Keiko Agena: Mearing's Aide

Kevin Dunn: Ron Witwicky

Karyn Parson: Erica Banes

James Avery: Silverbolt (voice)

Julie White: Judy Witwicky

Lester Speight: Hardcore Eddie

Charles Adler: Starscream (voice)

Kym Whitley: Jessica Morgan

Glenn Morshower: General Morshower

Corey Burton: Shockwave (voice)

Ramon Rodriguez: Leo Spitz

Robert Foxworth: Ratchet (voice)

Mark Ryan: (voice)

Jess Harnell: Ironhide (voice)

Anthony Azizi: Lt. Sulemani

Kathleen Gati: Russian Bartender

Jack Donner: Jack

Michael Loeffelholz: Executive Interviewer

David St. James: NASA scientist

Chris Sheffield: Pimply Executive

Lindsey Ginter: NASA Scientist

Robert Herrick: Josh

Elena Kolpachikova: Russian

Brett Stimely: President

Scott Levy: USAF Tech Sergeant Allen

Scott C. Roe: Sergeant Nelson¹¹

According to representatives for Paramount, Megan Fox will not appear in the film because Bay ultimately chose not to renew Fox's role, although representatives for the actress said that it was her decision to leave the film franchise. With Fox not reprising her role, English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was chosen to play Sam's new love interest. Also, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, having written the first two films, will not return for the third installment in the series, which Orci had earlier somewhat anticipated, fearing the duo would "risk getting stale". Bay has stated this would be the last installment in the series.

Storyline of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Transformer 3)

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.Transformers: Dark of the Moon Cast and Characters

Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky. The leading human character who is friends with the Autobots. It seems that Sam will possess a power glove in the movie.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley plays Carly. Sam's new love Interest who was in the original 1984 animated series. Huntington-Whiteley had worked with director Michael Bay before in various Victoria's Secret commercials. Other actresses considered for the role included Gemma Arterton, Bar Refaeli, Miranda Kerr and Brooklyn Decker.

Josh Duhamel plays Major William Lennox. The leader of NEST, an international taskforce battling Decepticons with the Autobots.

Tyrese Gibson plays Chief Robert Epps. A combat controller and a member of NEST.

John Turturro plays Agent Seymour Simmons. A former agent of the terminated Sector 7 unit.

Patrick Dempsey plays Dylan, Carly's boss, who is a race-car driver with a huge collection of cars. Dempsey described his role as "darker" than others and "significant to the plot". Dempsey was initially cast to play Mikaela's boss but with Mikaela out of the movie, he'll be playing Carly's boss.

Ramón Rodríguez plays Leo Spitz. Sam's former roommate from the last movie.

Kevin Dunn and Julie White play Ron and Judy Witwicky, Sam's parents.

Glenn Morshower plays General Morshower, A NEST member who communicates with the squad in the Pentagon.

Lester Speight plays Hardcore Eddie. The new NEST Member. He is an old school soldier who has seen it all and done it all and fought in war along with Epps' father many years ago.

Alan Tudyk plays Dutch, Agent Simmons' assistant.

John Malkovich plays Bruce, Sam's first boss.

Frances McDormand plays Marissa Faireborn, Director of National Intelligence.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Synopsis

The first teaser trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon was released on December 8, 2010, and portrayed the first moon landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, suggesting that the mission was fueled by the U.S. government to secretly discover what lay on the “dark side of the moon.” As the NASA astronauts undergo their secret mission to probe the dark side of the moon, away from prying eyes, they find a damaged ship. A Transformer is enclosed inside, damaged but still operational.⁹ ¹⁰

Michael Bays last releases:

No “dorky” humor (Bay: “We wanted to make the movie much more serious, more adult”).

When robots die, they’re really going to die and those deaths will be shown.

They’re not bringing people back [from the dead we assume].

The robots have been given more ‘weight’ in the story (Strong backstory and pathos).

Sentinel Prime is “A big brother and mentor to Optimus Prime.”

The Ferrari (Pictured HERE) is a ‘Decepticon who (Michael) Bay is ‘Dreadbox.’

New companions for Starscream, Shockwave and the rest will be included (Laser Beak).

“The scale on one of them is jaw-dropping” – “It will be ‘what the Hell was that thing?”

Apollo 11 ‘incident’ show in the teaser is government secret.

No army for this, Chicago is left up to the Autobots but some heroes sneak in through the back-door so to speak

The human gliders are used because they slip under the Decepticon radar – as do humans – so they’ll be the people who can hammer it to the Decepticons and create an opening for the Autobots.

Lorenzo Bonaventura

I've spent today talking to the stars and creators behind Salt, the new spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA agent forced to go on the run. We've gotten a lot of great stuff from everyone about the movie, but we also managed to get producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to talk a little bit about his current production, Transformers 3. Not only did he confirm recent reports that the film would be shot using the Pace 3D cameras, but he said they've been filming a lot of dialogue and non-action scenes using the technology. Check out what he had to say below:

We're shooting it with the [Pace] cameras. Not 100%, but we're doing a lot. And it's the future. Michael [Bay] learned how to do it in about a day. Really it was unbelievable. It's a cool feeling--we're sitting on the set and we're watching a monitor with 3D glasses on. It feels very 21st century.

We're finding when we're shooting dialogue scenes in 3d, it's really interesting, it create a dimension to it. It's kind of interesting. We're actually spending more time shooting non-action elements in 3D than we thought we were ever going to do.

I asked di Bonaventura about Michael Bay's previous anti-3D stance, and he had a pretty simple explanation for how Bay decided to make the switch: "We did a lot of tests. And he really liked it after he did it. I'm not sure he'll do every movie in 3D, but he liked it."

At the same time, though, di Bonaventura wasn't willing to toss himself 100% on the 3D bandwagon, particularly with some shoddy examples of the technology out in theaters right now: "I think the technology is going to continue to improve so you don't have these, sadly, really awful renditions of 3D." Of course, the fact thatTransformers 3 is happening in 3D means the whole craze will be no closer to going away, but at least you can know that one person in power in Hollywood agrees with you, even if he didn't say it outright, that Clash of the Titans looked like garbage.

Check back over the next few weeks for much more from the Salt junket-- once I've recovered from the terrifying/awe-inspiring presence of Angelina Jolie, at least

Megan Fox Replaced

We've seen a few pics from the set of Transformers 3 of Shia LaBeouf and ~~Megan Fox~~ Rosie Huntington-Whiteley filming together, and must 'fess, even though Megan "never" would have come back for a third movie, we've been missing the big-mouthed brunette. We heart her! Especially Fox and Shia together (platonically of course, since Meg's a married woman now).

So is the new Megan Fox holding her own with the veteran crew? And what's the heat level like between Rosie and Shia? Here's scoop straight from the Transformers 3 set about Michael Bay's casting gamble:

We talked with Transformers 3 producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura earlier this week and got him to break it down: Is the Victoria's Secret model simply filling the hot-girl quota needed in a blockbuster franchise? "Well, Rosie is pretty hot," laughed Lorenzo. "But she's been great. She has a fantastic attitude, and she's been having a lot of fun."

Translation: Megan's ‘tude wasn't so hot. Hmmm. We tried to get deets on what character, exactly, Whiteley will actually be playing. Even though she "replaced" Fox, we've heard she hasn't actually replaced Megan's character Mikaela Banes.

"Rosie will definitely be [Shia's] love interest though," dished the famed producer. Well, we saw that coming a million pouty-lipped miles away, but how is LaBeouf taking a liking to the new chick on set?

"You know what? Their chemistry is proving to work out. You never really know. That's the biggest risk," Lorenze ‘fessed about the decision to replace Shia's good pal. "Megan and Shia had very good chemistry. Fortunately for us, these two have good chemistry.

"It's a larger cast in general," the producer added about what positive changes to expect. "We've got [John] Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey...So what's happened is the shape of the movie has changed because of all the new people."

Gotchya, code for "the movie will still be good without Megan Fox dammit!" Some would probably debate better! Just can't decide if the model decision will be for the best. But we'll hold our judgment until next year.

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