Sideswipe Fan Art

Thanks to Millertalon for finding the below fan art (probably anyway) that shows a great design for Sideswipe.

Orci Talks Script, Injury with MTV

Roberto Orci spoke with MTV the other day about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen storyline and Shia's injury. As usual he remains silent on details. Thanks to VAWitch for the link.

“You want to make a different movie, not just a repeat,” Orci said. “It’s a different kind of film that the last one. It’s not a disaster [movie] paradigm.”

What he means is that “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” won’t have multiple storylines told from different points of view all converging in one place for the climax. Instead, expect a different kind of narrative with a different emotional centerpiece.

“We didn’t have to reshoot anything,” Orci said, “but we put [an injury] in there. We wanted to make sure that we put it in so he could be protected, because he’s running around a lot and bashing into things, and he needed something to hold it like a sling [after his hand surgery]. So we wrote it into the script to explain it away.”

“I think there’s an expectation that there will be a deeper mythology where the Transformers came from,” Kurtzman said. “The key is not to get so mired in the mythology that it can’t propel the movie forward. We just touched the tip of the iceberg.”

Autobots, Roll Out

Gettodeath strikes again, this time with a very good video of the Autobot fleet as they drive by. I believe the footage was shot in the Queensbay Bridge area in Long Beach California. The shots show Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Bumblebee, the Chevy Beat, Trax, and the concept Corvette Centennial. I do believe this is the first time all of them have been seen together like this and its the first time the public has a view of the corvette in motion. The usual what, why, and so forth remains a mystery but very cool to see all the Transformer cars together.

Thanks to Gettodeath for the video.

Long Beach Explosion Video

From The Movie Chronicles is the below video of an explosion filmed for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen near the Queensway Bridge in Long Beach, CA. It was captured on a phone camera so the quality isn't the best but it still catches the entire explosion that looks pretty darn good.

Pictures from Queensway Bridge

The Movie Chronicles website scored the below pictures from mylordsinuhe and fg9 that show some of the vehicles and set for the Transformers 2 shoot at Queensway Bridge in Long Beach, CA. Most of the pictures show Optimus Prime and Chinese signs to dress the area as part of Shanghai, China. As for the backend of the car in the first pic, that is the Chevy Corvette concept car that is currently rumored to be the Corvette Centennial.

Ranger565 posted a brief report of what he saw when he visited the area.

OK Well I work in the area and they have the whole area set up to be China, as you guys know. Now I did see Prime, Bumblebee, the silver corvette, 2 blue cars (small) and Ironhide. All were parked on the back lot behind Catalina Landing!

The scene I witnessed was a traffic scene where they were driving down Shoreline Drive and then 2 flatbed Trucks merge into traffic. THEN BOOOM!!! One of the two trucks blew in half.

NOTE: The Autobots were not in the blow up scene. That’s it the stunt guys got out the cars and the Helicopter flew off. But man that truck blue the trailer hitch right off. Then I heard that it may not have gone according to plan. Both trucks were [supposed] to blow up.

More Burnt But Clothed Shia Pics

INF Daily has more pictures of a burned Shia LaBeouf on the Transformers 2 set. The previous set showed him shirtless, this shows him with the equally trashed shirt on. Over all it continues to reinforce the notion that Sam Witwicky is going to get kicked around something fierce in this movie. Thanks to AshMD13 for the link.

Transformers At Long Beach Today, Tomorrow

The Movie Chronicles blog is reporting that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be closing the Queensway Bridge in downtown Long Beach, CA. Part of the filming will include "precision driving...with car stunts and explosions...". The picture is from bruxhina's flicker account and reports part of the areas "has been transformed into little China, with street signs in Chinese." I wonder if this is related to Gettodeath's recent pictures. Chronicles also noted that parkings lots have been set up on Pacific and 4th which could be used for production parking or to store the Transformer vehicles.