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.


Official Cast:
Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro and Ramón Rodríguez are set to reprise their starring roles, with Peter Cullen returning as the voice of Optimus Prime, and Hugo Weaving also returning the voice of Megatron. Ehren Kruger, who collaborated in the writing of the second film, was said to be again involved in the writing.

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.

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